What are the topics of Tomb-Sweeping Day's composition?

The title of Tomb-Sweeping Day's composition is "Mourning the Past and Clearing the Rain"; Tomb-Sweeping Day's thoughts; Reflections on Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the picnic festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition left by the Chinese nation for thousands of years to sweep graves and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is usually around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar. 1935, the government of the Republic of China designated April 5th as a national statutory holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival. On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day announced by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Tomb-Sweeping Day customs and habits

1, outing: Qingming outing is also called spring outing, and in ancient times it was called exploring spring and seeking spring; It means stepping on the grass, playing in the country and watching the spring.

2. Swing: This is the custom of ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day in China. Swing has a very long history. It was originally called Qian Qiu, but later it was changed to a swing to avoid taboos. In ancient times, swings were made of branches and tied with ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into two ropes, a pedal swing. Swing can not only improve health, but also cultivate courage, which is deeply loved by people, especially children.

3. Cuju: Cuju is a kind of rubber ball, the skin of which is made of leather and the ball is filled with wool. Cuju is kicking the ball with your feet. This is the favorite game of northerners in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day.

4. Planting trees: Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring is bright and the spring rain is falling. The planted seedlings have high survival rate and fast growth. So there is a habit of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and some people call Tomb-Sweeping Day Arbor Day. The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day.

5. Flying kites: Kites are also called "paper kites" and "kites". Flying kites is the most popular activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk with bamboo strips and other skeletons, pulls a long line on it, and drops it into the sky under the action of wind. It belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force.

During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people not only wore it during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of colored lanterns is hung under the kite or on the wind-stabilizing stay, like twinkling stars, which is called "magic lamp". Someone used to put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to yourself.

6. Grave-sweeping Sacrifice: Grave-sweeping is the center of Tomb-Sweeping Day custom. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a cultural tradition of paying homage to his ancestors and pursuing the future with caution, mainly offering sacrifices to his ancestors and expressing his filial piety and yearning for them. Tomb-Sweeping Day originally belonged to "ancestor worship festival" and was named "Ghost Festival" in the development and evolution of later generations. In ancient times, people worshipped their ancestors to express filial piety and gratitude, and it was not called Ghost Festival.

There are differences around Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the different places of sacrifice, Tomb-Sweeping Day can be divided into tomb sacrifice and ancestral temple sacrifice. Tomb sacrifice is the most common, and the Qingming sacrifice is characterized by tomb sacrifice. The reason why Qingming Festival is called sweeping graves is mainly because of the way of sweeping graves. Another form is ancestral temple sacrifice, also called temple fair sacrifice, which means that people of a clan gather in the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors first, and then have a meeting and dinner after the sacrifice. This kind of sacrifice is a way of ethnic reunion.

Another situation is that people who work in other places can't rush back to their hometown to sweep their graves, so they sacrifice to their hometown in the mountains or high places. Tomb-Sweeping Day worships his ancestors. According to the custom, people usually set out to visit graves in the morning in Tomb-Sweeping Day. When sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate the soil for the graves, break some fresh branches and insert them in the graves, and then kowtow to worship.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a sacrificial festival in China. "Sacrifice" is a festival to mourn ancestors, as opposed to festivals to worship gods and land gods. Participants in Tomb-Sweeping Day are all people, from the king's ministers to ordinary people. They should worship their ancestors on this festival.

7. Insert willow: Both Tomb-Sweeping Day and China have the folk custom of inserting willow. According to experts, there are three theories about the origin of the custom of inserting willows in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Some experts believe that the custom of inserting willows is to commemorate Shennong, the agricultural ancestor who taught people to grow crops.

In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to forecast the weather. There is an old saying that "the willow branches are green and the rain is raining;" The saying that there is another village. Willow has a strong vitality, as the saying goes: "If you plant flowers with your heart, you will plant willows without your heart. "Wicker lives when it is inserted in the soil, where it is inserted, where it is inserted every year, and the shade is everywhere.

8. Shooting willow: Shooting willow is a game to practice archery. According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, pigeons were placed in gourds, then the gourds were hung high on willow trees, and the gourds and pigeons flew out with bows, and the victory or defeat was judged by the height of the flying pigeons.

9. Cockfighting: ancient Qingming, popular cockfighting. Cockfighting began in Qingming and lasted until the summer solstice. The earliest record of cockfighting in China can be found in Zuo Zhuan. In the Tang dynasty, cockfighting became a common practice, not only among the people, but also the emperor. For example, Tang Xuanzong likes cockfighting best.

10, Silkworm Flower Festival: "Silkworm Flower Festival" is a unique folk culture in Silkworm Township. During the past period in Tomb-Sweeping Day, this folk activity was held in Wu Tong, Wuzhen, Chongfu and Zhouquan. Every year, the Silkworm Flower Festival is crowded with people, and there are many activities, such as welcoming the silkworm god, rocking the clippers, making noise in the Taiwan Pavilion, worshipping incense benches, boxing, dragon lanterns, lifting poles and singing operas.