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Tutorial on Making Small White Flowers for Grave Sweeping

The tutorial for making grave-sweeping white flowers is as follows:

1. Prepare four or five sheets of soft and tough paper.

2. Align and smooth the paper and fold it from one side like a folding fan.

3. Fold them all and tie the origami with a rope from the middle.

4. Cut some serrated lace on two sections of origami with scissors, and then lift the petals layer by layer after cutting.

About Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, which originated from the belief of ancestors and the custom of worshipping spring in the early days of mankind.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. Grave-sweeping and ancestor-worship outing are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which have been passed down since ancient times in China.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves to worship ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family memory, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion of family members and even the nation and the sense of hutong of worshippers.