What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. So do you know the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day? The Chinese nation has had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming since ancient times. In ancient times, it was called spring outing, spring seeking and so on. Spring outing, also known as spring outing, refers to going for a walk in the suburbs in early spring. Outing, a seasonal folk activity, has a long history in China, and its source is the ancient Spring Festival custom of farming sacrifice, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations. There are both solar terms and festivals in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the atmosphere in Tomb-Sweeping Day provides important conditions for the formation of the Qingming outing custom in terms of time and meteorological phenology. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, and nature presents a vibrant scene everywhere, which is a good time to go for an outing. People use the opportunity of sweeping graves to have fun with their families in mountainous areas and rural areas.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day? Before and after planting trees, it is clear, the spring is bright, the spring rain is flying, and the survival rate of seedlings is high and the growth is fast. So there is a habit of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and some people call Tomb-Sweeping Day Arbor Day. The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day? Flying kites, also known as "paper kites" and "kites", is a favorite activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk with bamboo strips and other skeletons, pulls a long line on it, and drops it into the sky under the action of wind. It belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people not only wore it during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of colored lanterns is hung under the kite or on the wind-stabilizing stay, like twinkling stars, which is called "magic lamp". Someone used to put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to yourself.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day? Grave-sweeping is the center of Tomb-Sweeping Day custom. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a cultural tradition of paying homage to his ancestors and pursuing the future with caution, mainly offering sacrifices to his ancestors and expressing his filial piety and yearning for them. According to the different places of sacrifice, Tomb-Sweeping Day can be divided into tomb sacrifice and ancestral temple sacrifice. Tomb sacrifice is the most common, and the Qingming sacrifice is characterized by tomb sacrifice. The reason why Qingming Festival is called sweeping graves is mainly because of the way of sweeping graves. Another form is ancestral temple sacrifice, also called temple fair sacrifice, which means that people of a clan gather in the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors first, and then have a meeting and dinner after the sacrifice. This kind of sacrifice is a way of ethnic reunion.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day? In Tomb-Sweeping Day and China, there is a custom of inserting willows. The custom of inserting willows in Qingming Festival is to commemorate meson push. Jietui set himself on fire under the willow tree to keep the festival, which made Jin Wengong, his ministers and people feel sad. The next year, when Jin Wengong personally led the ministers to climb the mountain to worship Jiexiu, he found that the old willow trees that had been burned in those years had actually come back from the dead. Jin Wengong named the old willow in front of him "Qingming Willow", and on the spot, he broke off a few branches and put them on his head to show his memory. Since then, officials and people have followed suit and followed suit. It has become a symbol to commemorate meson push.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day? Eating Eggs The custom of eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a history of thousands of years. The ancients cooked eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs and other eggs and painted them in various colors, which were called "colored eggs". They threw these colorful eggs into the river and washed them down the river. People downstream scrambled for them, thinking that they could have children after eating them.

Later, people ate eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day, symbolizing family reunion. There is also a folklore that Tomb-Sweeping Day eats eggs, and he will be healthy all year round, just like eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which are all holiday foods.

The above is my understanding of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs. What else do you know, my friend?