What kind of festival is Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. 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. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancient Spring Festival. The establishment of the ancient branch calendar provided decisive conditions for the formation of festivals. Ancestor belief and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of ancestral worship custom in Qingming Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which is the synthesis and sublimation of traditional spring customs.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the trunk and branch calendars, which indicates the change of seasons. At this time, it is a good time for outing in the suburbs (spring outing) and Qingming (grave-sweeping sacrifice). The old and new smells are coming out, the temperature is rising, everything is clean and tidy, and the earth presents a beautiful scene of spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in customs, which can be summarized as two festivals and traditions: one is to respect the ancestors and be cautious to the end; The second is outing and getting close to nature. Tomb-Sweeping Day has both natural and humanistic connotations, which are both solar terms and festivals. Tomb-Sweeping Day not only has the theme of sweeping, remembering and remembering, but also has the theme of taking an outing and enjoying the body and mind. The traditional concept of "harmony between man and nature" has been vividly reflected in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Through historical development, Tomb-Sweeping Day has integrated the customs of Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival, and integrated various folk customs, which has extremely rich cultural connotations.