What is Guashan?

Hanging Mountain is three days before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day. People will bring incense sticks, firecrackers and hanging paper to the ancestral graves, cut down the thatch around the graves, hang hanging paper in front of the graves, and light incense paper firecrackers to commemorate their deceased relatives.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most important sacrificial festival in China, and it is celebrated around April 5th in Gregorian calendar. Tomb-Sweeping Day was originally just the name of a solar term, but China people have been polite and respectful to their ancestors since ancient times, so the tradition of Spring Festival has gradually taken shape in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, many places will hold various commemorative activities in memory of revolutionary ancestors and war heroes. There are folk customs such as hiking, grave sweeping and ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.