Do you know why ancestor worship is held during the Great Cold Festival?

The Great Cold Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important sacrificial festival. This is a day to worship ancestors and add soil to the graves of deceased relatives. Grave-sweeping, commonly known as adding soil to the grave, is an activity of offering sacrifices to the dead. Han nationality and some ethnic minorities

Most of them sweep graves and add soil during the Great Cold Festival. Because it is a national custom to celebrate the Great Cold Festival when the weather is clear in the morning, many people go to sweep graves as soon as the Great Cold Festival arrives. When sweeping graves, people should bring wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the grave.

Slowly, provide food for relatives' graves, then burn paper money and some sacrifices, cultivate new soil for the graves, insert some light green new branches in the graves, then people kowtow and worship, and finally they take the rest of the sacrifices home. Du Mu, a poet in Tang Dynasty

"Great Cold" poem: "It rains in the great cold season, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Wrote the special atmosphere of the great cold.

To this day, the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and mourning for deceased relatives is still very popular.