Tomb-Sweeping Day originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty. At first, it was just a solar term in agriculture. Why are you sweeping graves now?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the March Festival in ancient times, originated in the Zhou Dynasty, and Tomb-Sweeping Day has a history of more than 2,500 years. Among many traditional festivals in China, Tomb-Sweeping Day is the only one with dual identity: solar terms and festivals. At first, Qingming only reminded farmers of the solar terms of spring ploughing and sowing, and then it gradually merged with the Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, traditional festivals centered on ancestor worship and grave sweeping were formed, including the custom of cold food, thinking about going for an outing and many other contents. The customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day are very rich and interesting. In ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day, fire and cold food were forbidden, grave-sweeping, spring outing, swinging, flying kites and fighting cocks were enjoyed. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the synthesis and sublimation of almost all Spring Festival, and it is one of the most important traditional festivals in China.

After thousands of years of vicissitudes, it has been widely respected and warmly responded by the descendants of the Yellow Emperor. Why does it have enduring charm? Because Tomb-Sweeping Day has rich and profound China traditional cultural connotation and extensive and profound social influence, it carries thousands of years of heavy history and culture of China and China.

It entrusts the ideal feelings of the people of China in past dynasties, and contains people's unremitting pursuit of a better life, gratitude and awe for nature, and eternal expectation for family reunion and harmony. It can be said that Tomb-Sweeping Day is an outstanding cultural creation of the Chinese nation and a symbol of China's historical civilization.