What is our traditional festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancient Spring Festival.

The establishment of the ancient branch calendar provided decisive conditions for the formation of festivals. Ancestor belief and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of ancestral worship custom in Qingming Festival. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi's characteristics, ancestral beliefs and sacrificial culture evolved into Tomb-Sweeping Day and became a fixed custom.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the trunk and branch calendars, which indicates the change of seasons. At this time, it is a good time for outing in the suburbs (spring outing) and Qingming (grave-sweeping sacrifice). The old and the new spit out the old, the temperature rises, everything is clean and tidy, and the earth presents a quiet image of spring.

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The main customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day:

1, outing

The Chinese nation has had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming since ancient times. In ancient times, it was called spring outing, spring seeking and so on. Spring outing, also known as spring outing, refers to going for a walk in the suburbs in early spring. Outing, a seasonal folk activity, has a long history in China, and its source is the ancient Spring Festival custom of farming sacrifice, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations.

Step 2 plant trees

Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring was bright and the spring rain was falling, and the survival rate of planted seedlings was high and the growth was fast. So there is a habit of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and some people call Tomb-Sweeping Day Arbor Day. The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day. The custom of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day is said to have originated from the custom of crossing willows and inserting willows in Qingming Festival.

Step 3 fly a kite

Kites are also called "paper kites" and "kites". Flying kites is the most popular activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk with bamboo strips and other skeletons, pulls a long line on it, and drops it into the sky under the action of wind. It belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force.

4. Sweeping graves to worship ancestors

Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, which means "grave-sweeping sacrifice", is a "respect for time and thought" for ancestors. Sacrificing ancestors is a way of remembering ancestors, and its custom has a long history. According to archaeological findings, an ancient tomb of 10,000 years ago was found in Qingtang site, Yingde, Guangdong. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates back about13,500 years, and it is the earliest tomb found in Guangdong and even Lingnan, indicating that the ancient people in Lingnan had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs more than/kloc-0,000 years ago.

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