Qingming ancestor worship and Xuanyuan Huangdi Mausoleum

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms in the traditional calendar of China. Thousands of years of farming civilization has created the traditional habit of China ancients to pay attention to the changes of solar terms and give them magical meanings. In Tomb-Sweeping Day in the Spring Festival, the ancients in China took this opportunity to pray for a good year for their ancestors.

According to historical records, the sacrifice of Xuanyuan Huangdi began in the tribal times, and later officially recognized and held a sacrifice ceremony. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the public sacrifice of Huangdi Mausoleum became an organized, large-scale and graded large-scale public sacrifice, which was listed as a national sacrifice in the Tang Dynasty and continued to this day in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the eyes of China people, offering sacrifices to the Yellow Emperor is a grand ceremony of the country and a grand event of the people.

The Yellow Emperor is called Xuanyuan. About 5000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor unified the Yellow River valley by uniting with other tribes, which laid the basic pattern of Chinese culture. Located in the south of the Loess Plateau, Huangdi Mausoleum is the legendary Huangdi Crown Tomb. 196 1 was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit and has the reputation of "the first mausoleum in China".

In order to meet the needs of more Chinese descendants to worship the Huangdi Mausoleum, the Shaanxi provincial government started the renovation project of the Huangdi Mausoleum on 1992. In the same year, Shaanxi Huangdi Mausoleum Foundation was established, which is a non-governmental organization dedicated to raising funds for the protection of Huangdi Mausoleum. According to statistics, governments at all levels in China and Chinese at home and abroad have donated more than 230 million yuan to protect the Huangdi Mausoleum.

At present, the renovation project of Huangdi Mausoleum has been basically completed, and the new sacrificial square can accommodate nearly 10,000 people. This year's sacrificial ceremony adopted the national sacrificial standards for the first time, taking bronze sacrificial vessels as sacrificial vessels, and adopted emperor-level sacrificial ceremonies and sacrificial music and dance.