The Origin and Customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day has been in the twenty-four solar terms. Tomb-Sweeping Day customs include ancestor worship, grave sweeping and spring outing.

Origin:

Tomb-Sweeping Day's name also comes from the Tomb-Sweeping Day atmosphere in the twenty-four solar terms of the China lunar calendar. 105 The first day after winter is Qi Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day gas * * * has 15 days. As it is Tomb-Sweeping Day, the time is after the vernal equinox. At this time, winter has gone, spring is full, the weather is sunny, the fields are bright and clean, and the vitality of nature is everywhere. It is appropriate to call this period Qingming.

Customs:

1, ancestor worship and grave sweeping

China people attach great importance to kinship. Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship and grave-sweeping is conducive to strengthening the blood relationship between families and clans, maintaining unity, enhancing the blood cohesion within families and clans, and achieving the purpose of mutual care. ?

Step 2 go for a spring outing

The Qingming outing has spread to this day and has become a very common custom activity. Every time before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is the peak of spring outing in China, and people go out and visit places of interest.

The Cultural Connotation of 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 ancestors' beliefs and spring sacrificial customs of early human beings. 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.

Although Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, it became popular all over the country after the Tang and Song Dynasties and became a grave-sweeping festival. According to records, in the Tang Dynasty, because officials went back to their hometowns to sweep graves, they sometimes delayed their duty. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued a decree to solve the problem of holidays.