Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs and habits

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Walking Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day Festival, March Festival and Ancestor Sacrifice Festival, is a grand Spring Festival in China tradition, belonging to a traditional cultural festival that pursues the future with caution, worships ancestors and promotes filial piety. There are many customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Due to different regional cultures, the contents or details of customs are also different. Although local customs are different, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and hiking are the same basic customs and themes. Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a solemn festival to pay homage to ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, travel and enjoy the fun of spring. [ 1][2]

Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day's combination of solar terms and folk customs is the unity of climate, geography and human harmony. The culture of Qingming etiquette and custom fully embodies the idea that the ancestors of the Chinese nation pursued the harmony of "heaven, earth and people", paid attention to conforming to the harmony between the right place and the right time and following the laws of nature. According to archaeological research, the tomb of Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is 10,000 years ago, shows that the ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs 10,000 years ago. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a cultural tradition of paying homage to his ancestors and pursuing the future with caution, mainly offering sacrifices to his ancestors and expressing his filial piety and yearning for them.