Tomb-Sweeping Day phenology

Qingming is a solar term representing phenology, which means sunny weather and lush vegetation.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most important sacrificial festival in China, and it is celebrated around April 5th in Gregorian calendar. China people have been polite and respectful to their ancestors since ancient times, so the tradition of the Spring Festival gradually took shape during the Qingming period. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, many places will hold various commemorative activities in memory of revolutionary ancestors and war heroes.

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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. Grave-sweeping is "grave-sweeping sacrifice", which is called "respecting time" for ancestors. Spring and Autumn Festival has existed since ancient times.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from ancient ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifices. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors.

According to archaeological excavations, a 10,000-year-old tomb was found at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is the earliest tomb in China, indicating that ancient ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs thousands of years ago. The custom of "grave-sweeping sacrifice" has a long history, and Qingming "grave-sweeping sacrifice" is the synthesis and sublimation of traditional spring customs.