Qingming Festival is the origin of a few days of the Qingming Festival _ folk tradition

2012 is April 5

Qingming Festival is based on two of the four solar terms to calculate. So it is not necessarily the annual Ching Ming Festival is April 4. Qingming is one of the Shiber, Qingming Festival in the Qingming that day, the annual qingming roughly all in the Gregorian calendar April 4 to April 6 day. The Division of solar terms is based on the sun and the equator, so the lunar calendar does not have a certain day.
2010 of the Qingming Festival is April 5
2010 Ching Ming Festival holiday: April 4 to 5th holiday, a total of 3 days. Among them, April 3 (Saturday), April 4 (Sunday) as usual holiday. April 5 (Monday, the Lunar New Year Qingming Day) is a statutory holiday.

Qingming, one of the lunar Shiber. The Chinese traditional tomb-sweeping day began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than more than 2,500 years. "Almanac": "After the vernal equinox 15th, Dou Ding, for qingming, when all things are clean and clear, when the gas Qing Jing Ming, all things are obvious, hence the name." "Qingming one to, the temperature rises, it is spring plowing spring good season, so there is" qingming before and after, species melon seed beans. " Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival for ancestors, mainly graves, grave is reverence, Nathan Pro-Mu clan and the specific performance of filial piety. Qingming Festival is in the mid-spring and Muchun, namely the winter solstice after 106 days. May 20, 2006, the Folk Festival approved by the State Council to include the first batch of national Intangible cultural Heritage List. Another, the poem is very many, du Mu "qingming" is the most famous poem.
Qingming Festival, English standard translation: Tomb-sweeping day or pure brightness. is one of the Shiber of China. (This holiday is now on state leave).

Ming Festival, also known as the festival, it is in the year from April 4 to 6th, is one of China's Shiber, is also a traditional Chinese festival, but also the most important festival of sacrifice, is the day of worship and grave. A kind of activity that sacrifices a deceased person as a grave. Most of the Han and some ethnic minorities are grave-Sweepers at Ching Ming Festival.

As the Shiber more objectively reflects the temperature, rainfall, phenology and other aspects of the changes, so the ancient working people used it to arrange farming activities. "Huai nan zi" Astronomy Training "cloud:" After the vernal equinox 15th, Dou refers to B, then Qingming wind to. According to the "Age hundred ask" saying: "All things grow at this time, are clean and clear." So that the qingming. "Qingming one to, the temperature rises, the rainfall increases, is the spring plowing spring good season." Therefore, "before and after the Qingming, point melon seed beans", "Afforestation, Mo Ching Ming" awakening. It can be seen that this solar term has a close relationship with agricultural production. According to the Gregorian calendar, however, Qingming as a festival, and the pure solar terms and different. The solar term is our country phenology change, the seasonal order symbol, but the festival contains certain custom activity and some kind of commemorative significance.

According to the old custom, grave, people want to carry manservant fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, food offerings in front of relatives, and then incineration, for the tomb of new soil, fold a few fresh green branches inserted in the grave, and then Kowtow salute worship, finally eat manservant home. Tang Dynasty poet du Mu's poem "Qingming": Qingming Festival Rain, the road pedestrians want to rains. Where is Jiewen restaurant? The cowboy Shang the FA Chuen. "wrote the special atmosphere of the Qingming Festival.


du Mu's "qingming"

The people used it to arrange farming activities. "Huai Nan Zi · Astronomy training" cloud: "After the vernal equinox 15th, Dou refers to B, then Qingming wind to." According to the "Age hundred ask" saying: "All things grow at this time, are clean and clear." So that the qingming. "Qingming one to, the temperature rises, the rainfall increases, is the spring plowing spring good season." Therefore, "before and after the Qingming, point melon seed beans", "Afforestation, Mo Ching Ming" awakening. It can be seen that this solar term has a close relationship with agricultural production.

However, Qingming as a festival, and the pure solar terms and different. The solar term is our country phenology change, the seasonal order symbol, but the festival contains certain custom activity and some kind of commemorative significance.

Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, but also the most important sacrificial festival, is the day of ancestor worship and grave. A kind of activity that sacrifices a deceased person as a grave. Most of the Han and some ethnic minorities are grave-Sweepers at Ching Ming Festival.

According to the old custom, grave, people want to carry manservant fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, food offerings in front of relatives, and then incineration, for the tomb of new soil, fold a few fresh green branches inserted in the grave, and then Kowtow salute worship, finally eat manservant home. Tang Dynasty poet du Mu's poem "Qingming" Yue: "Qingming Festival Rain, the road pedestrians want to rains." Where is Jiewen restaurant? The cowboy Shang the FA Chuen. "wrote the special atmosphere of the Qingming Festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also called the festival, according to the Gregorian calendar, it is the April 4 to 6th each year, it is the spring green grass spit of the season, it is also an outing (ancient called outing) good time, so the Ancients have qingming outing, and carry out a series of sports activities of the custom. In ancient times, there is a saying, "March festival"

Until today, the Qingming Festival worship ancestors, mourning the deceased loved ones are still prevalent customs. [1]

Qingming Festival is one of the traditional festivals of Chinese Han nationality, one of the Shiber in China, which is about the annual Gregorian calendar April 5. The day before Ching Ming for "Cold food Festival," said, legend from the spring and Autumn period formidable mourning meson push "cut stocks", after gradually qingming cold food into one.

Legend has it that after the flood, people use the words "qingming" to celebrate the floods have been removed, the peace of the peace. At this time, spring, everything recovery, days clear to Ming, is a spring outing good season. Outing early in the Tang Dynasty has begun, the past has become a habit of inheritance. In addition to appreciating the nature of the mountains and lakes, spring scenery outside, but also carry out a variety of recreational activities, add life fun.

Tomb-Sweeping day, in fact, Grave is the tomb before the Ching Ming Festival, the contents of cold food, cold food legend Yu Jinwen mourning meson push. Emperor Xuanzong Kaiyuan 20 years Dahir world, "cold food on the tomb." Because of cold food and qingming phase, and then gradually spread into qingming tomb. Ching Ming period, tomb sweeping more prevalent. In ancient times, children often had to fly kites when they were graves. Some kites on the bamboo flute, through the wind can make a noise, like the sound of Zheng, is said to be the name of the kite.

Tomb-Sweeping day there are many lost customs, such as the ancient Dailiu, shoot willow, swing, etc., according to the Liao Dynasty customs the most important Qingming festival, to the court to the common people to play the Swing for music, ladies gathered, the wind of outing [2] also heyday.

The Qingming Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty is very common, now handed down the Zhang observes end of the << Ching River map >> depicts the Northern Song Dynasty Hui Zong Qing Bianliang (Kaifeng) Bianhe on both sides of the scene.

　　
From 2008 onwards, our country will be recognized as a statutory holiday, Holiday day. To 2009, it was changed to three days. has continued to the present.

The origin of the festival

Qingming Festival is an important traditional festival in China, it is an important eight festivals: Upper Yuan, Qingming, summer, dragon Boat Festival, Middle Yuan, mid-Autumn festival, Winter Solstice and New Year's Eve. is generally in the Gregorian calendar April 5, but its period is very long, there are 10 days before 8th and 10th before 10th two kinds of parlance, this nearly 20 days are Qingming Festival.

The origin of the tomb-sweeping day is rumored to have originated in the ancient emperors "Hing" ritual, and later the folk also imitated, in the days of ancestral graves, lineage and become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the cold Food Festival and tomb-Sweeping day is two different festivals, to the Tang Dynasty, will worship the days of the grave for the cold food Festival. The right day of the cold food festival is 105 days after the winter solstice, about in the Qingming, because the two days are similar, so the Qingming and cold food merged into one day.

The custom of worshipping a grave before the tomb originated early in China. Early in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the burial was attached great importance. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty warring States Period "Mencius Zishing" also mentioned that a person ridiculed of qi, often to Dong Guo Tomb and beg sacrifice tomb, visible grave-sweepers in the Warring States era is prevalent. To the Emperor Xuanzong, ordered set cold food grave as "five rites" one, so every Qingming Festival came, "the Field Road, Shi full, soap beggar, all have parents Chu." (Liu Zongyuan "and Xu Jingzhao book") grave has become a social important custom.

And in the still some cold spring, but also ban fire eat frozen food, afraid of some elderly women and children can not withstand the cold, but also in order to prevent food buffet, then set the outing, outing, swing, play football, play polo, insert willow, tug of war, fighting cocks and other outdoor activities, so that everyone out to bask in the sun, activities, muscles, increase resistance. Therefore, in addition to the tomb-sweeping day, there are various outdoor fitness activities, so that this festival, in addition to reverence sentimental feelings, but also the fusion of the joy of spring atmosphere, both the Beisuan tears, and everywhere is a fresh and bright vivid scene. It's a very special festival. Qingming Jisao Tomb is related to the funeral rites and customs. According to the load, ancient "tomb without Grave", that is, only dozen graves, do not build Shingchu, so Jisao is not seen in the carrier. Later tomb and grave, Jisao of the vulgar will have relied on. In the Qin and Han dynasties, Hing has become an indispensable etiquette and custom activity.

"Han book, Shanyan biography" contained, Yan's even away from Beijing to the Qingming "also to the East China Sea grave." As for the development and consolidation of the Chinese ancestor worship and the Shanyan consciousness, the action of the people is reasonable. Therefore, later generations of the ancient Hing into the norms are also included in the Five rites: "The home of the scholar, Yi Xu on the tomb, into the five ceremony, Yong-style." "Get the official affirmation, the wind of Hing must be prosperous."

As Qingming and cold food days close, and cold food is a folk ban fire grave day, gradually, cold food and qingming is combined, and cold food has become a clear name, but also become a qingming season of a custom, Qingming day does not move fireworks, only eat cool foods. One of the Shiber. In April every year four or five, 6th, folklore during this period graves.

As China's vast areas in the Qingming Festival on the day of worship, grave, outing customs, and gradually evolved to the Chinese to grave, worship and other forms to commemorate the ancestors of a Chinese traditional festival, in mid-spring and Muchun, generally 106 days after the winter solstice, the day after the cold food festival. Grave-Sweepers can last around 10 days before and after the festival.
Festivals of the ethnic groups
China has 25 ethnic groups over the Ching Ming Festival, although different customs, but grave-sweepers, outing is the basic theme. Affected by the Han culture, China's Manchu, Hezhe, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Aquarium, Jing, Qiang and other 24 ethnic minorities, also have the custom of Qingming Festival.
Holiday customs
Qingming Festival Custom is rich and interesting, in addition to pay attention to ban fire, grave, there are outing, swing, Cuju, play polo, insert Willow and a series of customs and sports activities. Legend
Tomb Sweeping Day
This is because the Qingming Festival to cold food ban fire, in order to prevent cold food buffet health, so everyone to participate in some sports activities to exercise. Therefore, this festival is not only the Jisao of the new grave Beisuan tears, and outing to play the laughter, is a rich feature of the festival.

　 swinging on the swing

This is the Chinese ancient Qingming Festival custom. Swing, which means pulling the leather rope and moving. Its history is very old, the earliest call generations, after to avoid taboo, changed to swing. Ancient swing more with tree branches for the frame, and then tie the ribbon made. Then gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Swinging can not only improve health, but also cultivate the spirit of courage, so far for people, especially children love.

　 Cuju

Ju is a ball, the skin is made of leather, the ball is stuffed with hair. Cuju, is to use the foot to play. It was a kind of game that people liked in the ancient Ching Ming Festival. Legend is that the Yellow Emperor invented the original purpose is to train the samurai.

　 Outing

Also called Spring outing. Ancient times called the exploration of spring, the search for spring and so on. April Qingming, Spring, the natural world everywhere presents a lively scene, it is a good time for an outing. Our country has long kept the habit of qingming outing.

Tree Planting

Qingming before and after, Chunyang, spring rain packets, planting seedlings high survival rate, growth fast. Therefore, since ancient times, China has a clear habit of planting trees. Some people also called the Qingming Festival "Arbor Day". The custom of planting trees has been circulating so far. 1979, the Standing Committee stipulated that every year March 12 for our country Arbor Day. It is of great significance to mobilize the people of all ethnic groups in the country to actively carry out the activities of greening the motherland.

　 Kite Flying

Kite-flying is also the Qingming Festival people love activities. During the Qingming Festival, people not only put in the daytime, but also at night. At night under the kite or the wind on a steady line hanging on a string of small colored lanterns, like flashing stars, known as the "Magic Lamp." In the past, some people put kites on the blue sky, then cut the string, let the wind send them to the ends of the Earth, it is said that this can eliminate the disease, to bring their own good luck.

　　 Grave

Tomb-sweeping, called the ancestors of the "thinking of the King." Its custom has a long history. Ming "Imperial Beijing Scenery Slightly" contains: "March Qingming Day, men and women grave, bear to mention the Entada, after the sedan horse Hang Chu ingot, woolly beaming full road also." The worshippers, the sprinkle, the weeping, the weeding of the tomb, the burning of the Chu ingots, and the mound of paper money. Hope in the absence of paper money, then solitary grave. Cry, not return also, to the fragrant tree, choose garden, Row sit drunk. In fact, the tomb before the Qin dynasty, but not necessarily in the Qingming, Qingming Tomb is after the Qin. Until the Tang dynasty began to prevail. "Qingtong Ceremony" cloud: "years old, cold food and Frost festival, paid Kuang Ying, if Palestinian Seusee tomb, with wine cuisine and 芟 cutting vegetation, Zhou callosum seal tree, cut off the Jing grass, so called grave." "and legend has it so far.

Qingming Jisao ceremony should have personally to grave to hold, but because each economic condition and other conditions are different, so the way of Jisao is also different. "Burning Baggage" is the main form of mourning ancestors. The so-called "baggage", also referred to as "parcels", refers to the parcel sent from Yang to the underworld. In the past, the South Paper store has sold the so-called "baggage", that is, with a large white sheet paste pocket. There are two forms: one is the use of woodcut version, the surrounding printed on the Sanskrit transliteration of the "Sheng Mantra", the middle of a rosette tablet, used to write the area code of the widow's taboo, such as: "The late Zhang Fu June taboo old adult" words, is both parcel and tablet. Another is the element skin, do not print any patterns, the middle of only a blue sign, write the widow taboo can. Also be used as a Master card. There are many kinds of money in the baggage.

　　 Insert Willow

It is said that the custom of inserting Willow, is also in order to commemorate the "Christian reaping" of the farming Patriarch Shen Nong's. In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to predict the weather, ancient
Ching ming festival
"Willow green, rain misty, Willow dry, clear days," said. Huangchao Uprising when the provisions, "Qingming period, Dai Liu for the number." After the failure of the uprising, the custom of wearing willow gradually be eliminated, only inserted willow popular. Willow has a strong vitality, as the saying goes: "Flowers do not flower, inadvertently inserted willow shady." "Willow Insert soil to live, where, live to where, every year inserted willow, everywhere into yin."

Qingming inserted Liu Dailiu also has a saying: The original Chinese to Qingming, July and October New Moon for the three big Ghost Festival, is the Hundred ghosts haunt the time of begging. People in order to prevent the harassment of ghosts, but inserted Willow Liu Dai. Willow in People's mind has the function of evil spirits. Influenced by Buddhism, people think that Liu can be a ghost, but called "Ghost Terror Wood", guanyin with willow water to the relief of sentient beings. The Northern Wei dynasty sixie "Qimin to the operation" said: "Take the willow to the household, hundred ghosts do not enter home." "Qingming is not only a ghost festival, on this willow sprout season, people naturally have inserted Liu Dailiu to ward off evil."
Related legends
About cold food, there is such a legend:

　　
Ching Ming Festival

Legend of the spring and Autumn period of the Warring States era, Jin-ji's concubine in order to let their son Chinzi throne, set deadly trap murder Prince Shensen, Shensen was forced to commit suicide. Shensen's brother, in order to avoid the evil, fled in exile. In exile, the heavy ears suffered humiliation. Originally followed him a escapade of courtiers, most of the land continued to run the way out. There were only a few loyal men who had followed him. One of them is called a meson push. One time, the heavy-eared hungry fainted. The meson pushed to save the heavy ear, cut off a piece of meat from his thigh, cooked with fire and gave it to the heavy ears. 19 years later, heavy ears returned to do the monarch, this is the famous spring and autumn, one of the five tyrants formidable.

Formidable in power, to those and his thick and thin fengshang, but forget the meson push. Someone pushes Senqui for the meson in front of the formidable. Formidable suddenly remember the old, the heart guilty, immediately sent to please the meson pushed to deserves seal officer. However, the policeman went to a few trips, the meson can not push. Formidable had to go in person to please. However, when formidable came to the meson push home, saw the door closed. Meson pushed unwilling to see him, has been carrying the old mother hid into the Mianshan (now Shanxi Jiexiu southeast). Formidable let his guards on the Mianshan search, did not find. So, someone had an idea said, not as Shang, three sides of ignition, leaving one side, when the fire, the meson push will come out of their own. Formidable is ordered to lift Huoshaoshan, which material fire burned three days, three nights, after the fire extinguished, after all, the introduction of the meson. A look at the mountain, the meson push the mother and the son both holding a big charred willow has died. Formidable looked at the meson pushed the corpse to cry for a while, and then bury the body, found that the backbone of a willow tree blocked a hole, there seems to be something in the hole. Take out a look, originally is a piece of skirt, above a poem of blood:

Cut the meat to do loyalty, I hope the Lord is always clear.

Liu under the ghost finally disappeared, bad accompany June as a minister.

If my Lord's heart has me, I am always introspective.

Minister in Jiuquan Heart, diligence and clarity.

Formidable the theirs into the sleeve. Then the meson and his mother were buried under the charred willow tree. In order to commemorate the meson push, formidable ordered the Mianshan changed to "The Mountain", in the mountains to establish ancestral temple, and Shang this day as the cold food festival, to speak to the country, this day taboo fireworks, only eat cold food.

When he left, he cut off a burnt willow, and made a pair of clogs in the palace, and looked at it every day and sighed, "It is a sad tread." "Tread" is the ancestor of the ancients to the superior or peer to each other respectful of the salutation, it is said to originate from this.

The following year, formidable led the courtiers, Seusee on foot Mountaineering memorial, express condolences. To the grave, I saw the old Willow tree rose dead, thousands of green branches, fluttering in the wind. Formidable looked at the resurrection of the old Willow, like saw the meson pushed the same. He came to the front with respect, and pinched the branch with a precious pinch, and made a circle to wear it on his head. After Jisao, formidable the resurrection of the old Willow to give the name of "Qingming Willow", and this day set for Qingming Festival.

Later, formidable often put theirs sleeve in the side, as a spur to his ruling in the seat of the Ming. He is diligent and clear, good governance, the country is well governed.

Since then, the people of the Jin to live and work, to the meritorious, not the rich and the meson pushed very miss. On the day of his death, fireworks were forbidden to mark the occasion. Also with flour and zaoni, pinch into the shape of a swallow, with Yang Wicker string up, inserted in the top of the door, call his soul, this thing called "The Push Yan" (meson push also for the push). Since then, cold food, Qingming became the National People's Solemn festival. In cold food, people do not make a fire to cook, only eat cold. In the north, the common people only eat cold food such as jujube cakes, wheat cakes and so on, in the south, and many for the Green Group and glutinous rice sugar lotus root. Every Qingming Festival, people put Wicker into a circle on the head, the wicker sticks inserted in the house in front of the room, in token of nostalgia.

Related Poems

A masterpiece of Qingming verse

　　
Ching ming festival
"Qingming" (Tang) du Mu

The Qingming Festival rains in succession,

Pedestrians on the road want to rains.

Where is Jiewen restaurant?

The cowboy Shang the FA Chuen.

"Cold food on the Way" (Tang) song Zhiwen asked

Immediately meet cold food, en route belongs to Muchun. Poor Jiangpu hope, not see the people of the Luo Qiao. The Arctic Huiming The Lord, Nan Xi the minister. Hometown heartbroken, day and night Willow new.

"Cold Food" (Tang) Han Yu

Spring City everywhere not fly, cold food Dongfeng Royal Willow Oblique. Sunset Hangong Candle, light smoke scattered into the five Hou home.

"Lu Door Shing" (Tang) poetry

Coff recruitment love Ark, Spring grass green Wan Xiangtian, try Wu Men Peep County Guo, qingming several places have new smoke.

"Qingming" (song) Wang Yu Lingshi

No flowers and no wine over qingming, fun xiaoran like the Wild Monk. Yesterday, the next neighbor a new fire, Xiao window points and reading lights.

"Su Causeway qingming Shing" (song) Wu Weixin

Pear wind is clear, wandering the spring half out of the city. At sunset, thousands of Willow is a stream yingying.

"Cold food on the Tomb" (song) Yang Wanli

Straight Husband what fine! Bridge crisis can not help? Far mountain maple outside the light, the broken house wheat side solitary. The spring breeze again, the new Qian 去岁 No. Pear from cold food, into the festival only worry more.

"Jiao Shing" (song) Cheng Hao

Green Grass Athwart Act, spring into the mountain bi four weeks, hing by disorderly red wear liuxiang, solid because of water sitting in the tundra, MO quit a wine very advised, only fear wind flowers a red, the condition is good weather, may not forget to Zhang.

"Qingming" (Southern Song Dynasty) Gao

The North and South Hills many tomb fields, Qingming Jisao each. Ashes fly as hundred butterflies, tears of blood dyed into red cuckoo. The Sunset Fox sleeps on the tomb, the night belongs to the children laugh before the lamp. Life has wine to be drunk, a drop ever to Jiuquan!

"Send Chen Xiucai to the province tomb of the Sand" (Ming) Gao Qi's

Full of blood and blood and dust, after a disorderly return to the native can also mourn. The wind and rain pear cold food, a few grave descendants come?

"The Clear Sunrise tour of Qingjiang River" (Ming) Wang Pan

Ask the West building where to smoke? A sunny day in Oz. The horse wears the willow to hiss, the person leans on the swing to smile, probes the yingying flower total to teach the spring to fall drunk.

"Chang ' an Ching Ming Yan Huai" (Tang) Gu Fei Bear

Mingshi Emperor in the Qingming, also by tourists out of Forbidden City. Nine Mo Fangfei Orioles from the attendance, million car horse rain.

The next day in the next, sorrow to see the flower is tired of life. Spring the next year who is the Lord, unbearable Haggard more underachievement.

"Qingming Day Garden to send Friends" (Tang) Jia Dao's

Today's tomb-sweeping day, garden wins. Clear wind blowing catkins, new fire from kitchen smoke.

Ducha Open three paths, Article Yi Yin. When can life drive, to the wine before the falling flower.

"Qingming Day and Friends Zhangyu granule" (Tang) Lai

A few night Haruyama by Lurong, Qingming season good smoke light. Return to wear fine xing bow slide, drunken tread residual flower clog teeth incense.

Wind Rush Ridge Cloud Drift Wild, rain Yu Tian water down side pond. Unbearable Yin to look back, full ears frogs is sunset.

"Luoyang Qingming Day Rain Ji" (Tang) Lee Seal

Xiao Day Clear tomorrow, night Lai Song less rain. thousand doors still fireworks, nine MO no dust.

Wine Green River Bridge spring, missing Leisure Palace afternoon. Tourists love the grass, half guilty of the city drum.

"Heaven has Neon" qingming poem (contemporary) Liu Xiao (Liu Zhou)

One: Haggard grave Earth, see such as relatives of the ages, the most injury of this thing

(Note: C son, 1996, the year.) Comments: Anyone who has read this poem to a loved one's grave will be able to remember this poem.

Second: The tomb is clear: Peach blossom pink apricot white, rain dozen squid trees open, the pedestrian face quietly down, several graves crying grief

(Analysis: This poem pen scenery, with the scene to the sentiment. First write the delicate and gorgeous peach blossom apricot. Time to write the wind and rain flapping branches. The flowers are blooming silently. Then write rain or tears, from the face of pedestrians quietly slipped, at this time suddenly from a few distant grave sigh cry. This is a full of life, Qingming tomb scene, a faint sadness in a slight hint of warmth, so that people in this exploit see life of the insipid and human reproduction of the great. ）

Third: Xin has been clear: the most ruthless weather, not pity the earth filial piety heart; In order to make a handful of tears, endure to teach qingming rain

(Note: Sing: 2001 Singonan.) A few: the author honorifics. Comments: Read this poem, as if the rain is full of pure filial piety into tears, rain and tears blend, tears make rain cold. Intermittent, in succession, is not the heart of filial piety in tears? ）

Its four: The wind blows grandma in the rain, rains dozen grandma in the wind, every year this day all tears, the old grave lay before the man.

Its five: Yin and yang without a way to ask, Ching Ming seek Road and Graves, point of tears and paper money, grog less to see people.

Its six: DAO Bian Sanga initiation Italy, a little green makeup yellow, even if no rain still tears, grandmother grave in heap cloud.

Its seven: The grave handful the old Earth, the grave grass withered and green, likeness should be in this underground, the annihilation of yellow dust how many spring.

A masterpiece of burial sacrifices

Jiang Cheng son of the 20th night to remember the dream

Appreciation of Su Dongpo's words of Love and wife

Ten years of life and death two boundless, not pondering, since unforgettable. Trinidad solitary grave, nowhere to talk desolate. Even if meet should not know, dust face, like frost.

Night to dream of returning to the native, Small Xuan window, is dressing. Care without words, only tears thousand lines. Materials have to heartbroken every year, the moon night, short Matsuoka.
Climate
Qingming is to characterize the solar term of phenology, containing the meaning of clear weather and lush vegetation. As the saying goes: "Qingming break snow, rain break frost." "To Ching Ming, South China warm climate, the spring is thick." But before and after the Qingming, still has the cold air invasion, even causes the daily average temperature 3 days above 12 ℃, causes the medium rice rotten seedling and the early rice dead seedling, therefore rice sowing, planting to avoid the warm tail cold head. In the Northwest Plateau, livestock by the winter and the impact of insufficient forage, weak resistance, the need to prevent the spring after the strong cooling weather on the harm of the frail calves. "The Qingming Festival rains in succession", is the Tang Dynasty famous poet du Mu to the Jiangnan spring rain portrayal. But this is not the case in some regions. In particular, South China is often in the drought period, the first April rainfall is generally only 10 to 20 mm, still less than half of the Jiangnan area; Although the spring rain is more in eastern South China, but the rainfall in early April is generally 20 to 40 mm, the natural precipitation is also not sufficient for agricultural production needs to be In addition, May-June was the most hail month of the year, and the defence of hail should be strengthened.

Qingming season, in addition to the Northeast and the Northwest region, most of China's daily temperature has risen to 12 ℃ above, north and south of the Great Wall, everywhere is a busy spring plowing scene. "Qingming Festival, Wheat Long", in Huanghuai area south of the wheat is about to be pregnant spike, rape has been flowering, the northeast and Northwest Wheat also into the jointing stage, we should do a good job in the later period of fertilizer management and disease and pest control. Northern dry, Jiangnan early, medium rice into a large number of suitable season for sowing, to seize the opportunity to catch the early sowing. "Pear Flower Wind is qingming", when a variety of fruit trees into flowering, to pay attention to the artificial assisted pollination, improve the rate of fruit. The planting of early rice in South China is outstanding, and fertilization should be carried out in time. All over the corn, sorghum, cotton will also be sown. "Mingmai tea, two buds", tea tree sprout Long is flourishing, we should pay attention to the prevention and control of diseases and pests; tea production areas have been mining, should be strictly scientific mining system to ensure yield and quality.
Agricultural
As the Shiber more objectively reflects the temperature, rainfall, phenology and other aspects of the changes, so the ancient working people used it to arrange farming activities. "Huai Nan Zi · Astronomy training" cloud: "After the vernal equinox 15th, Dou refers to B, then Qingming wind to." According to the "Age hundred ask" saying: "All things grow at this time, are clean and clear." So that the qingming. "Qingming one to, the temperature rises, the rainfall increases, is the spring plowing spring good season." Therefore, "before and after the Qingming, point melon seed beans", "Afforestation, Mo Ching Ming" awakening. It can be seen that this solar term has a close relationship with agricultural production. However, Qingming as a festival, and the pure solar terms and different. The solar term is a sign of Chinese phenological changes and seasonal order, while festivals contain certain customs activities and some commemorative meanings.
Food
In the Qingming Festival diet, there are different seasonal food. Because of the cold food Festival and the tomb-sweeping relationship, some places still retain the Ching Ming Festival to eat cold learning
Ching ming festival
Inertial. In Shandong, Jimo eat eggs and cold cakes, Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, Long I. eat eggs and cold Gao Jingmi Rice, it is said that the words will be hail. Taian eat cold pancake roll raw bitter vegetables, it is said to eat bright eyes. Jinzhong area also retains the day before qingming ban fire habit.

In Wenzhou this area has the custom which eats the cotton vegetable cake, the cotton dish cake is the name is the sponge dish to make the cake, also some people call qingming cake, the cotton vegetable is according to the Wenzhou dialect translation to come, originally its study name Chupming grass, is in the Qingming Festival only then to have. Make cotton cake but very fastidious, first to go to the ground to pick cotton vegetables, (cotton vegetables This thing is not a species, is every to this qingming season will grow out of it,) and then wash dry, into the pour mortar, (the inverted mortar is a tool to do, before they used to pound the rice cakes) after the mash, and then into the rice noodles, (usually eight kg of white rice flour, two kg glutinous rice powder) and then add the right amount of water, to the cotton dish all evenly into the rice noodles can be, after we are ready to prepare the stuffing, stuffing is also its kind of an important process, we here is the most common is the fresh bamboo shoots, tofu, pork, pickles (or shredded radish), copy good, When the stuffing is cold, we can pack it, and we have to put a grapefruit leaf under it. One, is to avoid sticky pot, two, is also the most important, because after the grapefruit, this cotton cake will be more than a grapefruit fragrance, delicious taste better, wrapped in the steamer after steaming 25 minutes.

In many places, sacrificial offerings are eaten after the ritual is completed. South Shanxi people over Qingming, the habit of steaming large steamed bread with white flour, the middle of a walnut, scilloides, beans, outside the disc into a dragon shape, a dragon in the middle of an egg, called "Son Fu." To steam a very large total "son fu", symbolizing the family reunion happiness. Graves, will be the total "son Fu" dedicated to ancestral, after the whole family eat after the grave. Shanghai customs, with Wicker will sacrifice used steamed pastry Regiment through up, after drying storage, to summer that day, the oil fry, to the children eat, it is said that after eating no 疰 xia disease.

In a word, the four or five qingming is a lunar solar term, but it is a date determined by the Gregorian calendar, which is not before the use of the Gregorian calendar. It is like saying March 21 is the vernal equinox, June 23 is the summer solstice. Using solar terms to reflect the movement of the Sun is a great invention of ancient China.