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What's the best color in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is best represented by green. Because Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is a day when everything recovers in the 24 solar terms. The outing festival gets along with nature, and the natural green is full of vitality and freshness.

Moreover, there is a custom of eating green balls in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the color of green balls is blue. Therefore, if Tomb-Sweeping Day chooses a color to represent it, then green is the most deserved.

Matters needing attention in Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Tomb-Sweeping Day can't wish each other happiness. Tomb-Sweeping Day's main activities, such as ancestor worship and grave sweeping, are solemn. At the same time, both of them are related to death and ghosts and gods, and the attitude of "happiness" is not desirable.

In this regard, Gao Wei, secretary-general of the Beijing Folklore Society, said frankly that Qingming can be said to be "Happy Tomb-Sweeping Day", which has actually lasted for a long time; Comparatively speaking, "Tomb-Sweeping Day can't be said to be happy" only rose in recent two years. This is controversial because people don't know enough about the meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Gao Wei analyzed that Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most important festival in spring with rich themes. The theme of Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only to sweep graves, but more importantly, to combine sweeping graves with hiking. When we wish happiness, it just shows that we have the courage to overcome sadness and difficulties, which is also a positive attitude.