Tomb-Sweeping Day handwritten newspaper

Tomb-Sweeping Day began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is first of all a very important solar term. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is a proverb "Before and after Qingming Festival, plant melons and beans". Later, as Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Cold Food Festival approached, and the Cold Food Festival was a day when people were forbidden to burn graves, gradually, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day became one.

Tomb-Sweeping Day was officially established as a legal holiday in 2008. April 4th, 2008 is the first legal holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day are rich and interesting, such as paying attention to the prohibition of fire to sweep graves, jogging, swinging, cuju, playing polo, inserting willows and a series of folk sports activities. According to legend, this is because Tomb-Sweeping Day wants to ban cold food and fire. In order to prevent the harm of cold food and cold meal to people, we all take part in some sports activities to exercise. Therefore, this festival is a distinctive festival, with both sad tears to sweep graves and laughter for an outing.

In Sichuan, there is a custom of picking vegetables and making cakes. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, before flowering, pick the vegetables home, chop them up, mix them with flour or glutinous rice flour, and bake them with salt or sugar, and they become soft and glutinous Qingming Baba.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's activities of worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves and remembering ancestors' merits are deeply related to the profound ancestor worship and filial piety culture in China culture, which is the pillar of the harmonious and stable development of China society for thousands of years, and helps to establish a harmonious intergenerational relationship between the ancients and the modern, predecessors and descendants, thus promoting the harmonious relationship between man and nature, which is also the folk foundation with strong vitality in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some green branches and insert them in front of the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating and drinking.

To this day, the custom of worshipping ancestors and mourning the dead relatives in Tomb-Sweeping Day is still prevalent.