When is China's Thanksgiving Day? This is a holiday to commemorate the martyrs.

When is Chinese Thanksgiving Day? Everyone has heard of the Western Thanksgiving Day, but perhaps few people know about the Chinese Thanksgiving Day. Next, let’s take a look at when is Thanksgiving in China.

When is Chinese Thanksgiving Day?

1. China's Thanksgiving Day is Qingming Festival, which falls between April 4th and 6th of the Gregorian calendar every year. However, Qingming Festival originally refers to the fifteen days after the vernal equinox. There are two sayings: eight days before the 10th day and ten days before the 10th day. These nearly 20 days are all Qingming Festival.

2. The date of Qingming Festival in 2017 is: April 4, the 8th day of the third month in the lunar calendar, Tuesday.

3. In traditional Chinese culture, Qingming Festival is a festival to commemorate ancestors and remember martyrs. Its main commemorative ceremonies are tomb sweeping and ancestor worship.

4. Visiting graves and worshiping ancestors on Qingming Festival is not only an external form, but its most fundamental purpose is to advocate the filial piety tradition and "gratitude" culture of respecting the dead, remembering ancestors, and strengthening neighborly relations.

Customs of Thanksgiving in China

Tomb sweeping

There is a custom of sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors around the Qingming Festival to express one's remembrance of their ancestors. Generally, people go to the ancestral cemetery to remove weeds, place offerings, and pay tribute to their ancestors. Then they burn incense, pray, and burn paper money and gold ingots in front of the grave.

Outing

During the Qingming Festival, when the earth comes back to life, many people will take the opportunity to take their family out for a walk in the countryside while they visit graves to appreciate and experience the vibrant spring scene. The ancients called this activity "outing."