The Origin and Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day

The Origin and Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day

1 the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Qingming was just the name of a solar term at first, and later became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival. Jin Wengong designated the second day of the Cold Food Festival as Tomb-Sweeping Day. In most parts of Shanxi, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day in Yushe County and other places celebrated the Cold Food Festival two days ago; Yuanqu County also pays attention to Tomb-Sweeping Day's Cold Food Festival the day before, and the light cold food the day before.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. Generally, it is around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar, and the festival is very long. There are two sayings: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10, and these 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day originally referred to Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the government of the Republic of China designated April 5, 1935 as a national holiday, that is, 15 days after the vernal equinox, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival.

2 The meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to cherish the memory of the dead, inspire the existing life, cherish the memory of the deceased relatives around us, and thank our ancestors for giving us life. How to continue the past life through our existing life and inspire today's life with the past life? The significance of remembering is not only the yearning for relatives, but also a national custom and a race's reproductive ceremony. Some experts suggest that China should have a "national code", and Tomb-Sweeping Day holds a memorial ceremony in front of the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square every year. From martyrs to sages, sages are not only people who shed their blood, but also many outstanding figures in our history, which are worthy of our commemoration.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is a day to sweep graves and worship ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has extremely rich connotations, and different customs have been formed in various places. Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship and outing are the basic themes.

Refer to Tomb-Sweeping Day (a traditional festival of the Chinese nation) Baidu Encyclopedia.