Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the legend of meson push. Is there a story about meson push?

The story of meson push. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er of Jin Wengong was exiled. He was tired and hungry on the road. He cut a piece of meat from his thigh and made soup for Zhong Er. Zhong Er was very grateful when he learned that. Jin Wengong acceded to the throne, forgot to praise the minister, but Jiezitui did not want fame and fortune, and lived in Mianshan.

Zhong Er regretted it and burned Mianshan to find it. Afterwards, he found that Xie tui died in a withered Liuxia behind his mother's back, and left his last words: "May your master always be clear." ? To commemorate meson tui, Jin Wengong designated this day as Cold Food Festival. In the second year, Jin Wengong climbed a mountain to pay homage, and the willow tree actually came back to life, so he gave the old willow the title of "Qingming Willow" and took the day after the cold food as Tomb-Sweeping Day. ? After more than two thousand years' evolution, Tomb-Sweeping Day has gone beyond the meaning of solar terms and has extremely rich connotations.

Different customs have been developed in different places, and sweeping graves to worship ancestors and outing are the basic themes. ? Grave-sweeping originated in Shang Dynasty, but not necessarily in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave sweeping didn't become popular until the Tang Dynasty, and it was handed down from generation to generation. From the Tang Dynasty, from princes and ministers to ordinary people, we should pay homage to the dead souls of our ancestors on this festival. When sweeping the grave, we must first repair the grave, mainly to remove weeds and add new soil.

On the one hand, this ceremony can express the filial piety and care for the dead; On the other hand, the ancients believed that the graves of ancestors were closely related to the fate of future generations, so tomb repair was an extremely important memorial ceremony.

Extended information about grave-sweeping sacrifice

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the Spring Festival of the Chinese nation, and the corresponding Spring Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Double Ninth Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping is a kind of "grave-sweeping sacrifice" and a kind of "respect for time thinking" for ancestors. Its customs have a long history. The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors during the Spring Festival has existed since the pre-Qin period. Due to the different customs between the North and the South in the pre-Qin period, it was not necessarily in Tomb-Sweeping Day that the graves were swept in some places.

Grave-sweeping in the northern part of the Central Plains in the pre-Qin period was mainly in the Cold Food Festival and the Cold Clothes Festival, and it was not until the Tang and Song Dynasties that Qingming grave-sweeping began to prevail in the whole country. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history. In the four seasons ceremonies in ancient times, the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the ancestral temple in spring was called Chunjia (later Chunci) ceremony. The Tang Dynasty was a period of integration of the custom of tomb sacrifice in different places, which followed the custom of tomb sacrifice in Qingming and extended to the whole society.

According to the Book of Rites, there was no custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day going to the grave in ancient North China. By the Tang Dynasty, it had become a custom for Tomb-Sweeping Day to visit graves. Since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court has given officials a holiday and asked them to go to their hometown to visit their graves. According to the Song Dynasty's Dream of Liang Lu, every time in Tomb-Sweeping Day, "officials go out to the tombs of the suburbs to show respect for the time." Grave-sweeping activities around Tomb-Sweeping Day often become the personal participation of the whole society. Within a few days, the country people came and went, and the scale was extremely prosperous. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Tomb-Sweeping Day has merged two festivals and customs, namely, cold food and thinking, which have been passed down from generation to generation.