The Origin and Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day

The Origin and Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Qingming is a day for the Chinese nation to pay homage to and cherish the memory of their ancestors. So, how did such a day come into being, and what's the significance? The following is the history and significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day compiled by me for your reference only. I hope it will help you.

The origin and significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day 1 the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day;

In 732 AD, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty said: "Cold food is buried in the ground, and the ceremony is unwritten. It has been handed down from modern times and infiltrated into customs. " Now that the Cold Food Festival has disappeared, Tomb-Sweeping Day has become an independent festival. Traditional festivals in China are characterized by attaching importance to human relations and family ties. Sacrifice in the Spring and Autumn Period, thinking about the times and offering sacrifices to ancestors in the Spring and Autumn Period are in line with people's psychology of praying for the autumn newspaper in spring. The Chinese nation has a tradition of worshipping and respecting ancestors since ancient times, respecting ancestors and their fine traditions. This tradition has accumulated into a folk cultural psychology and become people's collective consciousness.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is related to Shangsi Festival, which is a vanished festival in ancient times. There are two activities on the third day of the third lunar month. One is that people go out to play in the wild when spring comes, and the other is to call the souls of their loved ones and their own souls back. With the dilution of primitive beliefs, Shangsi Festival has evolved into a spring outing, and Shangsi Festival has disappeared, which has been fully reflected in Tomb-Sweeping Day. People go for an outing in festivals and enjoy the spring scenery. Or homesickness, or friends reunion, in short, close the relationship between people and increase cohesion.

The meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Qingming is a day for the Chinese nation to pay homage to and cherish the memory of their ancestors. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, many people paid homage to the martyrs in different ways, cherished their grief, remembered the revolutionary history, remembered the past, and received revolutionary traditional education. For thousands of years, Tomb-Sweeping Day's ceremonies and connotations have been constantly evolving, merging and enriching. With Tomb-Sweeping Day becoming a legal festival in China, how many people can truly appreciate its cultural connotation and value.

The ruling party has designated Tomb-Sweeping Day as a legal holiday, which shows full respect for public opinion and public power. Looking back on the course our party and country have gone through, no matter in the war years of bloody battles or in the peaceful times of socialist construction, countless martyrs have given their precious lives to the cause of the party and the people without hesitation, and have written earth-shattering and magnificent poems. Without their sacrifice, there would be no us today. We cherish their memory: we should learn from their revolutionary heroic spirit of loyalty, sacrifice, blood and persistence in realizing their ideals and beliefs; We should learn from their noble character of observing the party's discipline and devoting their lives to the party; We commemorate them: just like them, for the benefit of the people, we must have perseverance from top to bottom.

Today, we celebrate Qingming not only to remember our ancestors, but also to sweep the graves. When we celebrate the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday, we should arouse the memory and admiration of our ancestors by sweeping graves and offering sacrifices, and fully embody the cultural tradition of thanking our ancestors and inheriting family honor, so as to continuously enhance cohesion and ensure that the excellent culture and memory of the nation can be passed down from generation to generation and last forever. So as to better realize the great goal of building a harmonious socialist society.

For our Chinese nation, Tomb-Sweeping Day bears a kind of morality and culture, and always aims at national unity and clan unity. Times are changing. We should keep pace with the times and stick to Scientific Outlook on Development and Tomb-Sweeping Day. We should entrust the people of China with reverence for their ancestors and respect for their sages, play a role in continuing the spirit of the Chinese nation which is linked by blood and passed down from generation to generation, and express our gratitude to our ancestors and our nostalgia and admiration for the heroic demeanor of our sages.

The significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day lies not only in his gratitude to his ancestors, but also in rallying people's hearts and increasing cohesion.

The Origin and Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day Chapter II It rained in the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road were dying.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival for us to remember our ancestors and mourn. In this festival, the green hills are full of sadness and the sky is full of tears. In the drizzle, we burned incense in their nests and in front of our ancestors' graves, missing the four trees planted in front of them.

How did Tomb-Sweeping Day come from? It turns out that this has a lot to do with a character in the history of China. This man once had a close friendship with Zhong Er, Jin Wengong in the Spring and Autumn Period. It is said that when Zhong Er was exiled, when he was hungry, he cut off his thigh and let him live. By the way, this man is the famous meson push.

Supposedly, such people will be reused after Zhong Er is restored as the overlord. Indeed, Jin Wengong really wants to reuse meson push, but this meson push is ungrateful and can't impress him. The stubborn old man finally had to take his old mother to Qian Shan to escape from Jin Wengong, and was burned to death by Jin Wengong.

In order to express his memory of Jiexiu and remember his fault, Jin Wengong cut the burned tree into boards, made clogs and put them on his feet. Whenever he hears the sound of clogs, he can't help but hide his face and cry, pretending that "the first step is sad."

In order to mourn for Jie Zitui, Wen Gong ordered that this day of the year is a cold food, and no family is allowed to make a fire to cook, drink cold water, eat dry food, and plant trees in Cold Food Mountain. When he arrived in Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he gave an imperial edict to the world: cold food went to the grave and evolved into tomb sweeping in Qingming.

Qianshan is still dead, and there is no rain and tears in cold food. I miss you twice every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, and I am busy planting trees in front of the mountain and behind the grave. Because of this meson push, there is another festival in China. This festival is legally recognized as a traditional festival by the government this year, and you can have a day off. When you visit your ancestors to visit the grave, will you also remember that Tomb-Sweeping Day is also a cold food festival, which has a lot to do with meson push?

The Origin and Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day Chapter III Tomb-Sweeping Day, as we all know, is to go to the grave and not eat hot meals. Why are you doing this? Don't worry, let me tell you slowly.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Jin Xiangong's concubine Li Ji murdered princes Shen Sheng and Shen Sheng and made her son inherit the throne. Shen Sheng's younger brother Zhong Er was exiled. During his exile, most people left Zhong Er. Only a few loyal people took refuge in him, and one of them was called meson tui. On one occasion, Zhong Er was so hungry that meson pushed a knife to cut a piece of meat from his leg and cooked it for Zhong Er. Nineteen years later, Zhong Er returned to China and became emperor. This is Jin Wengong, one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Jin Wengong gave many awards to the ministers who fled with him, but forgot to push mesons, and some people cried foul for mesons. Jin Wengong immediately sent someone to invite meson tui, but meson tui didn't want to see him and closed the door. Secretly carrying his old mother to Mianshan, Jin Wengong asked his guards to go up the mountain to look for it, but they didn't find it. Someone put forward a plan: release Yamakaji, leaving only one exit for mesons. Jin Wengong listened to this man's plan, and then set fire to Yamakaji for a long time, but Jiezitui refused to come out anyway and was burned to death. Jin Wengong didn't see him come out, so he sent people up the mountain to look for him. When they saw their mother and son leaning against a charred willow tree, leaving only two bodies, Jin Wengong felt remorse. When cleaning up the body of meson push, I saw his back in the willow cave, so I took out a piece of cloth from the inside and wrote a blood poem on it:

I hope your master is always clear.

It is better to be a ghost than to accompany you as an exhorter.

If your master has me in his heart, remember that I often reflect.

I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, diligent and honest.

Since then, people have had the custom of eating cold food and sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The Origin and Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day Chapter IV Qingming Festival is one of the 24 solar terms, and it is a traditional festival in China with a history of thousands of years. I think its meaning is different in everyone's mind. Its origin is very intriguing.

Tomb-Sweeping Day was related to Jin Wengong and Zhong Er, the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. Zhong Er's earlobe is very big, his ribs are connected together, and there are two eyes in one eye. There was civil strife in the state of Jin, and the sons Yiwu and Zhong Er fled outside. The son Yiwu killed Prince Kim and was even more rude to him. Zhong Er had to go with Hu Yan, Jie Zitui and others. On the way, Zhong Er, the son, was dying because he swallowed weeds for days, but where is a doctor in the wild mountains? In order to be my master, meson pushed off a thigh meat and made a fire to make soup. He gave the broth to Zhong Er, and he recovered.

He went to the State of Qin, and with the help of Qin Mugong, he went to the State of Jin, and next time he became the Duke Wen of A Jin. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jin Wengong sealed all his active ministers, and someone told him that the broth was pushed by mesons, saying that Zhong Er had forgotten to promote mesons. So he regretted forgetting to give meson the title, but now six ministers have done it, and he went to ask meson to push him to be an official. Who knows that Jiezitui lived in seclusion in Mianshan, and Wengong never forgot his roots. He went to Mianshan to ask him himself, but he couldn't find it.

Someone has come up with a bad idea: burning the mountain will let him out. But Jiezitui and his mother just couldn't get out, and then they burned to death with two old willows in their arms. Duke Wen ordered the whole country to mourn Jiexiu, renamed Mianshan Jiexiu, and stipulated that it was forbidden to burn fire and insert willows in the whole country on this day every year, and designated April 5 as Qingming, also known as Cold Food Festival.

For two thousand years, we in China have always attached great importance to this festival. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household doesn't need fire one day, but only eats some vegetables or green dumplings the next day. Recently, our country has designated it as a legal holiday. Let people have time to worship their ancestors, sweep graves and hike.

Tomb-Sweeping Day marks the tradition of China for thousands of years. It shows that China people are loyal and emotional, and China people will never forget their kindness.

The Origin and Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day Chapter 5 Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in the summer calendar. Almanac: "On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, the bucket refers to Ding, which is used for Qingming. When everything is clean and bright, when it is covered, everything is clean and bright, hence the name." It is said that the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the "grave-sweeping" ceremony of ancient emperors and generals, and later people followed suit. It is a fixed custom of the Chinese nation to worship ancestors and sweep graves on this day.

Due to the custom of ancestor worship, grave sweeping and mountain climbing in vast areas of China, it has gradually evolved into a traditional festival for China people to commemorate their ancestors by grave sweeping and worship. At the turn of mid-spring and late spring, it is generally 65,438+006 days from winter to the future, the day after the Cold Food Festival. Grave-sweeping activities can last about ten days before and after the festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are different in scale and manner in southern and northern China. There are also activities such as wearing willow branches, flying kites, collecting firewood, drawing eggs, fighting cocks and swinging. This custom is also popular among the Bai, Miao and Mongolian minorities. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also an important festival for Vietnam, Korea and Ryukyu.

Because Tomb-Sweeping Day is based on solar terms, Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the few traditional festivals in China that roughly coincide with the solar calendar. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the only holiday in Hongkong and other places according to solar terms, Macau is one of them (the other is the winter solstice), and Chinese mainland has also listed Tomb-Sweeping Day as a public holiday since 2008.

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