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What are the poems about Qingming?

First, "Qingming Rilai Wine" Song Dynasty: Gao Zhu

There are many tomb fields in the north and south hills, and the Qingming sweeps each other.

Paper ashes fly into white butterflies, and tears are dyed into red azaleas.

When the sun goes down, the fox sleeps in front of the grave, and the children smile at the lights when the night returns.

As long as you are alive, enjoy your wine and indulge yourself. In the grave after your death, you can't taste a drop.

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On Qingming Day, people are busy sweeping graves and offering sacrifices to sweep the south and north of Nanshan. Burned paper ash flies around like a white butterfly and cries sadly, just like a cuckoo will spit out blood when it cries. At dusk, the silent cemetery is desolate, and only the fox sleeps on the grave. At night, the children who came back from the grave laughed and laughed in front of the lights. Therefore, people should drink when they are alive, and enjoy when they are blessed. After death, how could a drop of wine from a child's grave ever flow to the underworld?

Second, "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" Tang Dynasty: Bai Juyi

At night in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the breeze is blowing gently and the moonlight is hazy. The railing made of jasper and the wall made of red bricks are the residence of the governor. ?

Walking alone in a roundabout song, I can't hear the sound of flowers.

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At night in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the breeze blows gently and the moonlight is hazy. The railing made of jasper and the wall made of red brick are the house of the secretariat.

A person walks in a circuitous corridor, singing, listening to the sound of strings coming from a distance, and silently enjoying flowers.

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In Tomb-Sweeping Day, on the 4th to 6th of the Gregorian calendar, grave-sweeping activities are generally carried out from the first 10 day to the last 10 day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and in some places, grave-sweeping activities last for one month. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. As a festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day is different from pure solar terms. Solar terms are signs of phenological changes and seasonal order, while festivals contain spiritual beliefs and customs. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings,

One is the belief in heaven and earth, and the other is the belief in ancestors. The traditional cultural custom of worshipping the heavens and ancestors has been handed down from generation to generation since ancient times, and the inheritance of the custom of sweeping graves and worshipping ancestors in Qingming has become a fixed theme of etiquette customs. Although the custom of forbidding fire and cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day became a national folk custom only in the Song Dynasty, the custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history. In addition to visiting graves, the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day has absorbed a series of folk sports activities in its historical development, such as swinging, cuju, polo and willow planting.

The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day has continued since ancient times. Even in today's society, people still visit graves around Tomb-Sweeping Day to pay homage to their ancestors: uprooting weeds, placing offerings, burning incense and praying in front of graves, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bunch of flowers to express their memory of their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors.

Qingming outing is also called spring outing. In ancient times, it was called spring exploration. It means stepping on the grass, playing in the country and watching the spring. Qingming Festival is the time when spring returns to the earth. People use the benefits to pay homage to their ancestors, and the whole family, old and young, enjoy themselves in the countryside of Shan Ye. Walking and ancestor worship are the earliest customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. With the passage of history, the concept of family and ancestor worship in many places has gradually faded, and most of these activities have declined. In ancient times, the traditional custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors was still popular in Lingnan area, and it has been passed down to this day. Whenever Tomb-Sweeping Day, no matter where they are, people will go back to their hometown to participate in ancestor worship activities.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a festival for people to worship their ancestors, but also a link for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in customs, but it can be summarized into two festivals and traditions: one is to respect ancestors and pursue the future cautiously; The second is outing and getting close to nature. Qingming is an important time for the integration of solar terms and festivals in traditional society. Solar terms are "weather" and pure natural time, while festivals are "human time" and social and cultural time choices. Tomb-Sweeping Day fully embodies people's natural view of "harmony between man and nature". Ancestor worship and outing are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs.