Poetry about the origin and customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In the historical development, Tomb-Sweeping Day has absorbed the custom of forbidding fire and cold during the Cold Food Festival. It is said that the Cold Food Festival was set up in the Spring and Autumn Period to commemorate Jiexiu, a loyal minister of the State of Jin. Although the Cold Food Festival is related to meson push in folklore, the origin of cold food is not to commemorate meson push, but to follow the old habit of changing fire in ancient times, that is, what Zhou Li called "using Muduo to repair fire in mid-spring and banning fire in middle school"

In addition to visiting graves, the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day has absorbed a series of folk sports activities in its historical development, such as swinging, cuju, polo and willow planting.

The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day has existed since ancient times. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people still had the custom of sweeping graves to worship their ancestors: weeding, offering sacrifices, burning incense and praying at the grave, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bunch of flowers in memory of their ancestors. 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.

Qingming Festival

(Tang) Du Mu

A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.

Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.

The most famous poem about the custom of cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day:

cold drink and snack

(Tang) Han Yi

In late spring, Chang 'an city is full of songs and dances, and countless flowers fall. The east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows on the willow trees in the royal garden.

As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.