Qingming manual

Handmade products in Tomb-Sweeping Day are as follows:

1. Splicing Ribbon: The petals of lotus flowers, lotus flowers, chrysanthemums and other flowers are spliced on a thin ribbon and worn at the time of sacrifice.

2. Paper lanterns: Make sesame into the shape of lanterns, light candles and put them in front of the sacrificial tomb.

3. Paper money: Paper money is folded into various mask paper money shapes and used to worship ancestors.

4. Gift box: Put the Qingming sacrifices such as apples and fruits in beautiful boxes and give them to relatives, friends or ancestors.

5. Flower arrangement: Before going to Tomb-Sweeping Day, pick some flowers, make them out of plastic foam or lily foam, take out the flower arrangement base and put them on the graves of relatives.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, which originated from ancestors' beliefs and customs of worshipping spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. Grave-sweeping and ancestor-worship outing are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which have been passed down since ancient times in China.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Besides China, some countries and regions in the world also have Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day announced by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.