Tomb-Sweeping Day's short story is 80 words.

At the end of Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang finally defeated the overlord and won the world.

Liu bang returned to China dressed in gold and wanted to go to his parents' grave to worship, but because of years of war, the grave was covered with weeds and his parents' grave could not be found.

Liu bang is very sad. Although his subordinates also helped him search all the tombstones, he didn't find his parents' graves until dusk.

Finally, Liu Bang took the paper out of his sleeve, tore it into many small pieces, held it tightly in his hand, and prayed to God: "My parents are alive in the sky, so I will throw these papers into the air. If the paper falls in one place and the wind cannot move, it is my parents' grave. "

Say that finish, Liu Bang threw the paper into the air, and sure enough, a piece of paper landed on a grave that could not be blown no matter how the wind blew. Liu bang ran over and looked at the vague tombstone carefully, and sure enough he saw his parents' names engraved on it.

Later, folks like Liu Bang, Tomb-Sweeping Day went to the ancestral graves every year, and pressed a few pieces of paper on the graves with small clods to show his grave-sweeping.

The extension date of Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi is generally around April 5th in Gregorian calendar, that is, after the vernal equinox 15. Tomb-Sweeping Day period is very long, 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10. These nearly 20 days belong to the Tomb-Sweeping Day period. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

From 65438 to 0935, the government of the Republic of China designated April 5th as a national statutory holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival. On May 20th, 2006, Tomb-Sweeping Day declared by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.