Qingming Festival is a Chinese folk important traditional festivals, is important for the eight Festival, Ching Ming, the beginning of summer: the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongyuan, winter and new year's Eve, one of. The general was in April 5th of the Gregorian calendar, but the festival period is very long, have ten days eight days ten days ten days and two claims, this nearly twenty days is the Qingming festival.

Qingming Festival's origin, allegedly began in the ancient emperor"." rites, later folk also modelled, in today ancestors grave, ages follow and the Chinese nation to become a fixed custom. Originally, the cold food festival and the festival is two different festivals, the Tang Dynasty, will be the days of grave worship as cold food festival.

" Qingming Festival " and its name is derived from Chinese lunar calendar 24solar term of solar term qingming. 105th days after the winter solstice is a solar term qingming. A total of 15day solar term qingming. As solar term Qingming, time after the spring equinox. When the winter has gone, spring is in the air. The weather clear, clean, landscape, nature is shown exuberant opportunity of survival. " Qingming" referred to in this period, is just a word.

One hundred and five days after the winter solstice festival that, once the fire ban, cold, it is also called" cold day"," smoking section". Folklore Festival is to commemorate the spring and autumn when the Jie were burned in Mianshan, Duke Wen ordered the fire ban. Jie Zitui was in Shanxi, so cold the first popular custom in Shanxi. The old cold food off the fire, the house has wood drilling with the new fire ceremony, folk has more to each other with a new fire wicker.