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Which traditional festival in China does Smart Festival refer to?

"Smart Festival" is another name for Tomb-Sweeping Day. Because "Qingming" and "Smart" are homophonic, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called "Smart Festival". Because when we are in Tomb-Sweeping Day, we can be smarter to honor the elderly and elders, and every time we visit the grave, we can never forget it. The ancients called Tomb-Sweeping Day "Smart Festival", hoping that through this festival, the spring breeze would make children smart.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China lunar calendar, after the vernal equinox and before Grain Rain. According to the explanation of the differentiation of China's festival custom series, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called "paranormal festival" because Qingming and paranormal are homophonic. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Ghost Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Missing Family Day and Death Day.

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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. Grave-sweeping is "grave-sweeping sacrifice", which is called "respecting time" for ancestors. Spring and Autumn Festival has existed since ancient times. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from ancient ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifices.

According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. According to archaeological excavations, a 10,000-year-old tomb was found at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is the earliest tomb in China, indicating that ancient ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs thousands of years ago.

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