What is the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day? Why do you want to visit the grave to worship your ancestors? We should know about the younger generation.

We all know the festival of Tomb-Sweeping Day, because whenever Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, there will be a holiday of 1 day, which is 3 days.

In fact, we should not just have a holiday, but understand the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day and the significance of sweeping graves. This is what our younger generation should do.

The following fellow villagers will show you the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day and why we should pay homage to our ancestors. I hope you can understand our traditional culture more clearly after reading it.

Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the fifth solar term in spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day was named after "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival shows everything".

Qingming usually changes from April 4 to 6 in the Gregorian calendar, not fixed on a certain day, but April 5 is the most common, and this year is April 5.

It is true that in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is called "Tomb-Sweeping Day", also known as the outing festival and ancestor worship festival, and it is one of the four traditional festivals in China.

Besides, Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is not only a natural frugality day, but also a traditional festival, the only one that coincides with the solar terms.

So the question is, what is the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day? Tomb-Sweeping Day can be traced back to the Cold Food Festival. In ancient times, the ancients held a grand sacrifice in spring to put out all the kindling handed down from the previous year, which was called "no fire".

In this period when there is no fire, people must prepare enough cooked food and live on cold food. This is the so-called "cold food", hence the name "Cold Food Festival".

There is also a folk story about the origin of the Cold Food Festival. According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled to other countries 19 years. Minister Jiezitui always followed around, never giving up, and even "broken stocks and broken kings."

Zhong Er tried to become a famous gentleman "Jin Wengong", but Jiezitui refused to make a fortune and lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji to force him out of the mountain, but meson refused to leave the mountain, and he was burned to death.

Jin Wengong remembered his loyalty, buried him in Mianshan, built a temple, and ordered "no fire, no cold food" on the day of Jiexiu's death to show his condolences. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".

Since the date and customs of the Cold Food Festival are similar to those of Tomb-Sweeping Day, since the Tang Dynasty, the two festivals have gradually merged into one, and there is even a saying that the Cold Food Festival is clear.

It is also recorded in the almanac: "On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, the bucket refers to Ding, which is used for Qingming. When everything is clean and bright, when it is covered, everything is clean and bright, hence the name."

Grave-sweeping and outing are the two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down from ancient times to the present in China.

Here comes the next question. Why did Tomb-Sweeping Day pay homage to his ancestors? According to legend, the custom of sweeping graves originated from the "tomb sacrifice" ceremony of ancient emperors and generals.

The earliest poor people had no graves. It was not until the Qin and Han Dynasties, when the hierarchy was not so strict, that ordinary people had graves, and they began to "sacrifice tombs" and gradually formed customs.

The Book of Rites says: "Heaven and earth are the foundation of life; Ancestors are the foundation of class. " It means that heaven and earth are the foundation of life, ancestors are the foundation of our human beings, and praying for ancestors is a cultural custom of inheriting filial piety.

Ancestors give us the inheritance of life, offering sacrifices to ancestors in order not to forget the roots, carry forward filial piety and feel the kindness of ancestors.

During the Qingming Festival, it is the best sustenance to pay homage to relatives, repair graves and present your own thoughts in the cemetery. At the same time, when you visit the grave to pay homage to your ancestors, whenever you stand in front of the tombstone of your loved ones, it's like standing in front of you.

Knowing that you have been buried underground for a long time, but you want to be filial, but you are separated by yin and yang, which will make you more aware of the importance of family and cherish the people in front of you.

A passage on the Internet deeply touched me. You are so old, why do you go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors every year? His answer left me feeling for a long time. If people have no roots in this life, they will wander around. Only by standing here can you know where you come from and where you are going.

In the minds of China people, "root" is an ancestor, a native land, a complex and a spiritual support that is hard to give up.

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