How should we modern people live a traditional and civilized Tomb-Sweeping Day?

When I was a child, Du Mu's poem "It rains in succession during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die" is a poem I am very familiar with. I always thought that passers-by who wanted to break their souls went to the grave. When I grew up and read some books, I realized that the passerby who was about to die was a passer-by in the rain. Maybe it's because the first impression is too deep. Every year when Tomb-Sweeping Day is approaching, we often think of going to the grave to pay homage to our old friends. In fact, Qingming, a traditional festival that has lasted for thousands of years, is not only a day to sweep graves, but also a festival with the strongest feelings, the greatest significance, the most activities and the richest connotation among all traditional festivals. Among all solar terms, it is both a solar term and a festival of Qingming, which was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an "Arbor Day". Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, it was neither too cold nor too hot, with occasional spring rain, so the survival rate of planting saplings was high. Since ancient times, people have the habit of planting trees in Qingming, and the custom of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day has been passed down to this day. In Taiwan Province Province and southern Fujian, people still like to plant acacia trees, so that the dead relatives can have a home and the living can have the sustenance of missing. If possible, at the same time of sweeping graves to worship ancestors, cultivate a shovel in front of ancestral graves and plant a tree in a suitable place, so that the saplings we planted can take root and sprout and spread into a life green connecting heaven and earth.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a "fitness day". During the Qingming Festival, the spring is bright and everything recovers. Since ancient times, people have the habit of spring outing, as well as playing football, flying kites, swinging and other colorful sports activities Today, with the increasing attention paid to national fitness activities, Tomb-Sweeping Day should become a physical exercise day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an "energy saving day". In some areas, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called the Cold Food Festival to commemorate the heroic Jie tui of Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin. The main custom of this festival is to ban fire. People are not allowed to make a fire to cook, so they can only eat prepared cooked food and cold food. Today, with the global climate getting warmer, it has become a global consciousness to save energy and reduce emissions and advocate a low-carbon life. Tomb-Sweeping Day, banning fire and dieting, advocating minimizing energy consumption, is also the new connotation we have given to traditional festivals. Low-carbon life and energy saving are not contradictory. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is a life with low energy consumption, low consumption and low expenses. Energy saving and emission reduction is not only a buzzword in today's society, but also a strategic choice for mankind in the future. It is of great significance to raise awareness of energy conservation and emission reduction, make simple changes to one's lifestyle or consumption habits, and jointly reduce global greenhouse gas (mainly carbon dioxide) emissions.

Tomb-Sweeping Day should be a "clean day". Judging from the meaning of festival names, both Qing and Ming mean honesty and integrity. After Jin Wengong was founded by mesons in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he wanted to live in the mountains, instead of being a high official. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji to force him to become an official. However, the meson pushed up and burned the tree in Mianshan. When the fire went out, Jin Wengong went up the mountain and saw the mother and son holding a charred willow tree, dead. Jin Wengong looked at Jiexiu's body and cried for a while. Then he buried the body. He found that the untwisted spine was blocked by a wicker hole. There seems to be something in the hole. He took it out and saw that it was a skirt with a bloody poem engraved on it: "May your master be eternal. 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 and I am diligent and honest. " Today, we advocate honesty not to imitate the practice of meson push. But we advocate simple funeral and civilized memorial service, which is the concrete embodiment of honesty and is also the connotation of the times that Tomb-Sweeping Day should inject!