Introduction to the Traditional Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival full of homesickness. At the same time, because of the spirit of Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also a festival of hiking and getting close to nature. It should be said that Tomb-Sweeping Day has both mourning for relatives and laughter for an outing, and it is a festival full of national colors.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship embodies the traditional concept of respecting ancestors and ancestors, and its core is the culture of loyalty and filial piety in Confucian ethics. China has a long history of folk beliefs. Humans originated from the incomprehension of dreams, fertility and death, resulting in the initial belief, that is, "soul." Primitive people thought that man was composed of body and soul. After death, the body will rot and disappear, but the soul will live forever. Moreover, in people's consciousness, soul is different from blood relationship. "Zuo Zhuan Xi Gong Ten Years" contains: "God doesn't care about no class, and people don't worship no race." Therefore, in order to get the protection and shade of blood-related ancestors, the ancients often slaughtered livestock as offerings to express their reverence for the "undead." Later, people called the social etiquette behavior of saluting the "dead" "sacrifice". Sacrifice belongs to "Ji Li" and is the first of the five rites (Ji, Fierce, Bin, Jun and Jia). The Book of Rites Sacrifice System says: "Don't be impatient with others. Five rites are nothing more important than sacrifice. "