After entering March, the first is the stinging solar term, and then the spring equinox, and after the spring equinox solar term is the Qingming solar term, which is the only one of the 24 solar terms that is both a traditional festival and a solar term.
Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Worship Festival, etc., is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals.
Then the Qingming Festival is coming, do you know? This year's Qingming Festival is "not ordinary", the old man said that there are at least three major characteristics, let's take a look, see it early, know early, and prepare early.
Qingming Festival is a very ancient traditional festival, there are many kinds of folk origin and legends about the Qingming Festival, among which the most widespread saying is related to Jie Zitui. Legend has it that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Wengong set up to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, and Jin Wen Gong set Jie Zi Tui in the fire to Mianshan to die on this day as the "Cold Food Festival", and set the day after the Cold Food Festival as the "Qingming Festival".
However, in all dynasties in our country, there are basically festivals and customs first, and then there are legends, so the Qingming Festival should be derived from the ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifice customs in ancient times, with both natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival.
The first feature of the Qingming Festival in 2024 is that it is earlier than in previous years, generally in most people's impressions, the Qingming Festival is on April 5, but this year's Qingming Festival is on April 4. This change in dates, although it is only a short difference of one day, has attracted a lot of attention.
In fact, the Qingming Festival is not always on April 5th, most years are like this, but a few years are on April 4th, and some years will be postponed to April 6th. The last Qingming date on April 6 was in 1943, which is even rarer.
This is also another major feature, if you look at the calendar on your phone, you will find that the time of Qingming in the lunar calendar is on February 26.
That is to say, in the lunar calendar, the Qingming Festival came a little early, and there are different sayings about the Qingming Festival in the lunar calendar, including the proverb "February Qingming is not in front, and Qingming in March is not behind".
This is the experience summed up by the ancestors, and it has important reference value for the arrangement of agricultural labor, which is telling us that if the Qingming Festival is in the second month of the lunar calendar, then spring plowing and spring planting should try not to be too early, and a little later is not worried. But if it is the Qingming Festival in the third month of the lunar calendar, then it can be appropriately advanced and cannot be postponed.
The purpose of this is because during the Qingming Festival, it is the critical period of spring plowing and spring planting, and the old saying also says "before and after the Qingming Festival, plant melons and beans". However, if it is the Qingming Festival in the second month of the lunar calendar, then the solar term has arrived, but the temperature is not high, so the sowing of crops should not be advanced. The Qingming Festival in the third month of the lunar calendar is just the opposite, so it is okay to advance appropriately, so as not to miss the agricultural time.
Since this year's Qingming Festival starts on April 4, the Qingming Festival holiday has also been adjusted. According to the regulations, this year's Qingming Festival holiday will be closed from April 4 (Thursday) to 6 (Saturday), a total of 3 days.
At the same time, during the Qingming Festival in 2024, the expressway will implement a free passage policy, and the free time is also from 0:00 on April 4 to 24:00 on April 6. Although this year's Qingming Festival holiday is also a three-day holiday, it is also one day earlier than in previous years.
The implementation of this policy has undoubtedly brought great convenience to people's travel, but it has also brought some problems. That is, I have to go to work on April 7, and it is the reason for the compensatory holiday, and I will have to take 6 consecutive days off in the following week. Therefore, some people say that this year's Qingming Festival holiday is actually only one day, that is, April 4, the day of the Qingming Festival, and the Friday holiday is obtained by Sunday, and Saturday is originally a holiday.
However, someone on the Internet issued a leave strategy, as long as you take three days off, this year's Qingming Festival holiday can take 8 days of long vacation, that is, from April 1 to 3 to take three days off, so that from March 30 (Saturday) to April 6 are holidays, a total of 8 days. It's really a good choice for those who want to take annual leave.
The above are the three major features of the 2024 Spring Festival holiday, I hope you will gain something after reading it, and it is also recommended that you prepare early. **10,000 Fans Incentive Plan