What is the cultural connotation and significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day?

During the Qingming Festival, the old and new smells are coming out, life begins to flourish, the temperature rises, everything is clean and tidy, and the earth presents a quiet scene in spring. This season is a good time for outing in the suburbs (spring outing) and grave-sweeping. Tomb-Sweeping Day's combination of solar terms and folk customs is the unity of climate, geography and human harmony.

The culture of Qingming etiquette and custom fully embodies the idea that the ancestors of the Chinese nation pursued the harmony of "heaven, earth and people", paid attention to conforming to the harmony of the right time, place and people, and followed the laws of nature. Through historical development and evolution, Tomb-Sweeping Day has absorbed and integrated the customs of Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival, and integrated various folk customs, which has extremely rich cultural connotations.

Extended data:

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. As a festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day is different from pure solar terms. Solar terms are signs of phenological changes and seasonal order, while festivals contain spiritual beliefs and customs.

According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings:

One is the belief in heaven and earth;

The second is the ancestral belief. The traditional cultural custom of worshipping the heavens and ancestors has been handed down from generation to generation since ancient times, and the inheritance of the custom of sweeping graves and worshipping ancestors in Qingming has become a fixed theme of etiquette customs.