Tomb-Sweeping Day's educational content

The contents of education in Tomb-Sweeping Day are as follows:

China's traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day probably began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. With the interpretation of the times, festival customs and the purpose and significance of festivals have been constantly changing.

At first, Tomb-Sweeping Day was an important festival, because after Tomb-Sweeping Day, the temperature rose and the weather became warmer day by day, and our people, who were mainly agricultural, began to work for a year.

So there used to be a saying: before and after Qingming, plant melons and beans; Planting trees is not as clear as Qingming. In my hometown, whenever around Tomb-Sweeping Day, a large number of sapling dealers come to my hometown to transplant the surviving saplings. In fact, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves, but a day to celebrate agricultural production in the new year, so Tomb-Sweeping Day used to be equivalent to a foreign country: Thanksgiving Day.

In the history of China, it has long been a custom to eat cold food, forbid fire and pay homage to ancestors. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, so it became a continuous festival tradition for Tomb-Sweeping Day to sweep graves to worship ancestors. In today's society, before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people still have the custom of paying homage to their ancestors.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a good time to go for an outing, so it has become an important part of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs. Ancient women could not go out casually on weekdays, and it was a rare opportunity for Tomb-Sweeping Day to visit the grave. Therefore, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, women have more fun than men, and there is a folk saying called "Women's Qingming Year".