Why is Qingming Festival on the Gregorian calendar? What day of the week is Qingming Festival in 2020?

Why is Qingming Festival on the Gregorian calendar? What day of the week is Qingming Festival in 2020?
Why is Qingming Festival on the Gregorian calendar? What day of the week is Qingming Festival in 2020? Qingming Festival is a major traditional spring festival when people sweep tombs, offer sacrifices and remember their ancestors. It occurs in the third month of the lunar calendar, also known as the Chen Month, Jichun Month, Peach Month, Tong Month and Silkworm Month. Want to know whether the third month of the lunar calendar is auspicious or inauspicious? Then go to Mr. Shui Mo's website and have a look.

Why is Qingming Festival on the Gregorian calendar?

Although Qingming is a festival, it is also a solar term, and the 24 solar terms are calculated according to the Gregorian calendar. The current "Twenty-Four Solar Terms" are divided using the "Fixed Qi Method", which determines the solar terms based on the position of the sun on the tropical ecliptic; the "Fixed Qi Method" divides the sun's annual motion trajectory into 24 equal parts, with each 15° being one part, and each part being a solar term, starting from the Beginning of Spring and ending at the Great Cold. The "Twenty-Four Solar Terms" are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, and embody the historical and cultural essence of Chinese civilization.
Qingming: The direction of the handle of the Big Dipper: the Big Dipper points to Yi; the time averaging method: 105 days after the winter solstice; the qi-fixing method: the sun's ecliptic longitude is 15°. The festival falls on April 4th to 6th of the Gregorian calendar.

What day of the week is Qingming Festival in 2020?

Solar term Qingming: Saturday, April 4, 2020 15:37:16
Lunar calendar: March 12, 2020 Gregorian calendar: April 4, 2020, Saturday, Aries
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
[Do not use it for important events on the day of the red yarn]

Get married, receive money, build a bed, build a stove, recruit a son-in-law, seek an heir, remove the ground, take up a post, erect pillars, raise beams, plant, attend funerals, catch and enroll in school
[Today’s taboos in the almanac]
[Do not use it for important events on the day of the red yarn]

Build a house, repair a grave, bury, move, move into a new home, burn incense, offer sacrifices, pray, build, build bridges, build embankments, open warehouses, bury, move coffins, break ground, start drilling, admit livestock, collect money, release water, travel, meridians, open markets
According to the lunar calendar, Qingming Festival in 2020 is on Saturday.
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