Information about Qingming Festival

1. Qingming Festival, also called Treading Green Festival, is held at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, a day for sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese people started around the Zhou Dynasty, which is more than 2,500 years old. Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has an extremely rich connotation, and different customs have been developed in various places, while sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, trekking and picnicking are the basic themes.

2, Qingming Festival is one of China's important "eight sections of the year", generally around April 5 in the calendar, the festival is very long, there are 10 days before the 8th and 10 days before the 10th after two kinds of statements, which is nearly 20 days within the Qingming Festival. Qingming Festival originally refers to the fifteen days after the vernal equinox, in 1935 the Republic of China government explicitly set April 5 as a national holiday Qingming Festival, also called the National Tomb Sweeping Festival.

3, Qingming Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals. May 20, 2006, China's Ministry of Culture declared the Qingming Festival approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

4, Qingming Festival is a Chinese festival of sacrifice. "Sacrifice" is the festival of mourning for ancestors, as opposed to festivals that honor the gods of heaven and earth. The participants in the Qingming Festival are all the people, from kings and ministers to ordinary people, who pay homage to the souls of their ancestors on this festival. Since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court has given officials a vacation to make it easier for them to return to their hometowns and visit their graves.

5, according to the song "dream sorghum record" records: every Qingming Festival, "officials and the public are out of the countryside to save the tomb, in order to think of the time of respect." Participate in the tomb sweepers are not limited to men and women and the number of people, often out of the family. So before and after the Qingming Tomb Sweeping activities often become the whole community personally involved in the matter, a few days in the countryside between the crowd endless, the scale is very prosperous.