Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day to remember old friends. Who is this festival to commemorate?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not to commemorate a historical figure, but the ancestral beliefs and customs of the Spring Festival in ancient times.

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 originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Paying homage to ancestors is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, which is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family memory, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's combination of natural solar terms and humanistic customs is the unity of climate, geography and human harmony, which fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' pursuit of harmony between heaven and earth.

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During the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day, Guangdong Province, there was a custom of going for an outing on Qingming Day. Walking is different from hiking. Hiking is an outing, close to nature, and hiking is a time when a family or a group of people sweep the mountains in unison.

Every year, when going up the mountain to worship, the weeds around the ancestral graves will be cleared first, and then paper will be tied, and tributes such as golden pigs, chickens, ducks and fish, fresh fruits, cakes and drinks will be placed for worship.

After the worship ceremony, cut and roast pigs on the spot, with fresh fruit and tea, have a feast, have a picnic, or go home for a feast. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a grand festival for ancestor worship in Guangdong. In some places, the custom of holding Tomb-Sweeping Day and Qingming Banquet has existed since ancient times. The whole people, men, women and children participated, and the scene was grand and lively.

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