Tomb-Sweeping Day Information English Edition

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as "outing festival", "Xingqing festival", "March festival" and "ancestor worship festival", is a grand traditional festival of the Chinese Spring Festival. It belongs to the traditional cultural festival of cautious pursuit.

Respect ancestors and promote filial piety. There are many customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In different regions and cultures, the content or details of customs are different. ?

Although the customs vary from place to place, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship are the common basic themes in the customs.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms in the ancient Ganzhi calendar, which expresses the seasonal changes. It is in a period of vigorous vitality, and it is also a period of decline of yin qi. ?

At this time, everything is clean and brand-new, and the earth presents a beautiful image of spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a combination of solar terms and folk customs, which is the unity of climate, geographical location and human harmony.

The culture of etiquette and custom in Ming and Qing Dynasties fully embodies the idea that Chinese ancestors pursued the harmonious unity of heaven, earth and human beings, and paid attention to adapting to the times, the earth and the laws of nature.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day Festival, March Festival and Ancestor Festival, is a grand traditional Chinese New Year, which belongs to the traditional cultural festivals of pursuing the future with caution, worshiping ancestors and promoting filial piety. There are many customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Due to different regional cultures, there are also differences in content or details among different parts of the country. Although customs vary from place to place, sweeping graves, offering sacrifices to ancestors and hiking are the same basic customs.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms in the ancient Ganzhi calendar of China, which reflects the seasonal changes. It is in the season of vigorous vitality and decline in Yin Qi. At this time, everything is clean and tidy, and the earth presents the image of spring and tranquility. Tomb-Sweeping Day's combination of solar terms and folk customs is the unity of climate, geography and human harmony. The culture of Qingming etiquette and custom fully embodies the idea that the ancestors of the Chinese nation pursued the harmony of "heaven, earth and people", paid attention to conforming to the harmony of the right time, place and people, and followed the laws of nature.