Why do we need to go on a hike on the Qingming Festival?

Because of the Qingming graves to the countryside to go, in mourning ancestors, by the way, in the bright spring light in the gallop foot green wilderness, right as the sadness of self-esteem to change the mood of a way to spice things up. Therefore, the Qingming Festival is also known as the festival of green.

Old times had Qingming Festival for trekking festival, about from the Tang Dynasty, people in the Qingming tomb sweeping at the same time, also accompanied by trekking activities. Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei poem has a "teenagers day for roaming, without Qingming and on the Si", on the one hand, the nature of the playful children, often not satisfied with trekking and play only in the Qingming held on the other hand, but also explains the "Qingming" and the "on the Si". "on the other hand, also shows that" Qingming "and" on the Si "gradual integration of the trend.

Because of the Qingming grave sweeping, when the spring is bright and beautiful, grass and trees are green, the field a brilliant fragrance. Tomb-sweepers often "cry, do not return, tend to the fragrant trees, choose the nursery, sit in the drunkenness", by the simple sacrificial activities evolved into the same time to travel to the spring to visit the victory of the trekking.