Is Qingming Festival a traditional festival in China?

The Qingming Festival is not only a traditional festival in China, but also one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals. The Qingming Festival has a long history, which can be traced back to the ancient times of ancestor beliefs and spring festival rituals.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, usually on the 108th day after the winter solstice. In China, it is one of the more important ceremonial days, when people sweep the graves of their ancestors. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Han Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty, some 2,500 years ago.

The significance of the Qingming Festival

The custom of trekking on the Qingming Festival has a long history, and legend has it that it was formed as far back as the pre-Qin Dynasty, and some say that it began in the Wei and Jin dynasties. According to the "Book of Jin" records: every spring, people have to be accompanied to the countryside to tour the spring and enjoy the scenery, to the Tang and Song Dynasty is particularly strong. According to & lt; the old book of tang & gt; records: [dali two years in February of polyoxyethylene nonyl, fortunately Kunming pool trekking." Visible, the custom of spring tour has long been popular. By the Song Dynasty, the wind of trekking was prevalent.

The Qingming Festival, the ancients more to the water's edge spring festival, in addition to the disaster and seek blessings, mainly to pray for human reproduction. On this day, people who have been stifled for a whole winter have come out of their homes and collectively held ceremonies at the water's edge to worship the gods in charge of marriage and fertility. Therefore, this time of year is also the [spring time] for those amorous men and women to meet and court each other. In addition, the two clans also tend to take advantage of the festival in the field to get together, engage in some of the songs, dancing activities, communication with each other's feelings. Later, on the Si Festival evolved into the countryside trekking spring, the waterfront feast to enjoy the spring festival, that is, trekking activities gradually prevailed.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of trekking is also. The Wenzhou government records: [Qingming tomb sweeping and sacrifice more than invite friends and relatives, apprehend '> apprehend the boat drums clanging gold class swim lake." Every spring, the grass is green Qingming season, people have been excited to go to the countryside with a companion trekking, playing, kite flying. Especially from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, many local records and local literature have recorded the scene of trekking and kite flying during the Qingming Festival. Until today, spring trekking activities are still loved by people.