Origin and customs of Tomb Sweeping Day

Ching Ming Festival, also known as "Tree Planting Festival", "Spring Festival", and "smart Festival" in ancient times ". Chinese folk traditional festivals.

Qingming Festival is one of the Twenty-four Solar Terms in China. Because the Twenty-four Solar Terms objectively reflect the changes in temperature, rainfall, and culture throughout the year, the ancient working people used it to arrange agricultural activities. Huai Nan Zi? Astronomical training cloud: "On the 15th day after the spring equinox, the fight refers to Party B, then the wind is clear ." As the saying goes, "When everything grows, everything is clean and clear. It is said to be pure brightness ." When the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, it is a great season for spring ploughing. Therefore, there is a saying that "before and after the Qingming Festival," planting trees "and" planting trees "are not too pure. This solar term is closely related to agricultural production.

However, as a holiday, Qingming Festival is different from pure solar festival. Solar term is a sign of China's changes in the text and seasonal sequence, while festivals contain certain customs and commemorative significance.

Tomb-sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese holiday and the most important sacrificial festival. It is the day of ancestor worship and grave scanning. A type of activity that sacrifices the dead. Most of the Han nationality and ethnic minorities scan the tomb during the Tomb Sweeping Festival.

According to the old customs, when scanning graves, people should carry articles such as alcohol, fruits, paper and money to the cemetery, feed food to the grave of their loved ones, and burn the paper money to cultivate new soil for the grave, fold a few green branches inserted in the grave, then bow his head to worship, and finally eat the food home. The Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's Poem "Tomb-sweeping": "The rain in the Period of Tomb-sweeping, people on the road to break the soul. Where is the restaurant? ." Wrote out the special atmosphere of Tomb Sweeping Day.

Ching Ming Festival, also known as walking Green Festival, is a yearlyApril 4Between the last six days, it was the season when the spring was bright and the grass was green. It was also a good time for people to visit spring games (ancient called Walking green). Therefore, the ancients had the customs of setting foot on the Spring Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.

Till today, the customs of mourning deceased loved ones are still prevalent during the Tomb Sweeping Festival.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there have been customs such as "Eating qingqing group", "sending hundreds of insects", and "Drinking Water. Due to the homophony of clear and "smart", it is also known as "smart Festival". Jiangnan people have the best saying that they have children on this day. Today, there are many customs such as ancestor worship, tomb scanning, Tomb Sweeping, tree planting, youth walking, and youth group eating.

China's traditional Tomb Sweeping Day began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than two thousand five hundred years. At the beginning of the Qingming festival, it was a very important solar term. It was a great season for spring ploughing to clear the temperature and increase the temperature. Therefore, there was a great season for "planting melons and beans" before and after the Qingming Festival ". "Afforestation, not over pure brightness. Later, due to the close relationship between the Qingming Festival and the cold food, while the cold food was the day when the fire was banned from scanning the tomb, gradually the cold food and the tomb were merged into one, and the cold food became a nickname for the Qingming Festival, it has also become a customs of the period of brightness, the day does not move fireworks, only eat cold food.

Ching Ming Festival Customs

The customs of Tomb-sweeping Day are rich and interesting. In addition to the fire ban, tomb scanning, a series of customs and sports activities such as qingqing, swing, Cuju, playing polo, and inserting Liu. It is said that during the Tomb Sweeping Day, the cold food will be banned from fire. In order to prevent cold meals from injury, everyone will come to some sports activities to exercise. Therefore, this festival is a special festival, featuring grief and tears, as well as the joy and laughter of walking green.

Swing
This is the ancient Chinese Tomb-sweeping Day customs. Swing, meaning migration with leather ropes. Its history is very old. It was first called QIQIU and then changed to a swing to avoid taboos. In ancient times, the swing was made with tree branches on the shelf, and then tied to the color belt. Later, it gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Playing a swing can not only improve health, but also cultivate the brave spirit, which is loved by people, especially children.

Cuju
Is a leather ball, which is made of leather and tightly stuffed with hair in the ball. Cuju is about playing football with your feet. This is a kind of game that people love during the Tomb-sweeping Day in ancient times. It is said that the Yellow Emperor was invented and initially designed to train samurai.

Zou Qing
It is also called spring outing. In ancient times, it was called spring and spring. In March, the Spring Festival went back to the earth, and the natural world was full of vigor and vitality. It was a great time for the outing. Our citizens have long maintained the habit of making progress.

Tree planting
Before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines, the spring rain shines, the survival rate of planting saplings is high, and the growth is fast. Therefore, since ancient times, China has had the habit of planting trees with pure brightness. Some people also call the Tomb-sweeping Day "Arbor Day ". Tree planting has been widely used. In 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress stipulated that March 12 of each year is China's Arbor Day. This is of great significance to mobilize people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to actively carry out activities for the motherland.

Kite Flying
It is also a favorite activity of people in the Qingming Festival. During the Qingming festival, people not only put in the sky, but also in the night. In the night, a string of colored lanterns are hung under a kite or on the wind-holding line, like a flickering star, known as the "lamp ". Pass
Some people put the kite in the blue sky and cut the line, let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth, it is said that this can eliminate the disaster and bring good luck to yourself.

In my opinion, Tomb-sweeping Day is a day of nostalgia. When we go to the grave, the most direct thing is to worship our ancestors, and in my opinion, it is a teaching that we cannot forget everyone.