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400 words of Zhou Ji Daquan

Qingming Festival

"It rains in the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village. " This sentence is a poem by Du Mu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. Today is Tomb-Sweeping Day, and we are going to worship the mountain.

On the day of Tomb-Sweeping Day, my family and I went to Meishan Temple to sweep the grave, and brought fruits, roast suckling pigs and the like, a basket with a clean newspaper under it. Finally, I put the basket in the trunk of the car. After everything was ready, our family got on the bus. After an hour or so, I finally arrived and saw many people paying homage to their ancestors. Very lively. I took out fruits and other items and arranged them, holding incense and making a few deep bows. I paid New Year greetings to Grandmother Tai and Grandfather Tai, and then made a silent wish at the grave, "I hope grandma can bless me to make faster progress in my studies, and my whole family will live a happy, healthy and successful life." Ming Festival is one of the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, which is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, after the winter solstice 106 days. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, the bucket refers to Ding, hence the name because everything is clean and bright, and everything is clean and bright when it is covered. As soon as Qingming comes, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and sowing, so there is a saying that "before and after Qingming, melons and fruits are planted". Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to worship ancestors, and the traditional activity is to sweep graves.