Cheongmyeong means the sky becomes clear and bright. It falls on or near Hansik, marking the true start of the farming season.
Cheongmyeong, around April 5, means "clear and bright." With the weather settled, it is a good time to begin fieldwork.
As the saying goes, "At Cheongmyeong even a stuck poker sprouts"—everything grows vigorously. People plowed fields and prepared seedbeds.
Overlapping with Hansik, families visited ancestral graves and repaired the grass on them. Alongside the cold-food custom of Hansik, they enjoyed spring greens and mugwort cakes.
Tend ancestral graves
A good time to plant trees
Prime time to sow spring vegetables
Take a spring outing on a clear day
Adjacent terms:
Clear and Bright is the 5th of the 24 solar terms, falling around around April 5. The sky turns clear and bright. Overlapping with Hansik, a day for tomb-visits and farming.
Cheongmyeong means the sky becomes clear and bright. It falls on or near Hansik, marking the true start of the farming season.
Tend ancestral graves A good time to plant trees Prime time to sow spring vegetables Take a spring outing on a clear day