Festivals originating from the 24th solar term

The festival that originates from the 24 solar terms is the Qingming Festival.

Chingming is the fifth of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, and is one of the important "eight festivals of the year" for the Chinese people. Qingming Festival generally have trekking, swinging, tomb sweeping, willow shooting willow, playing polo, kite flying and other customs. The Qingming Festival has evolved into a festival of ancestor worship, which is very much related to the Cold Food Festival.

The Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, remembering ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, is not only conducive to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, but also to promote the cohesion of family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity.

The Qingming Festival combines natural festivals and human customs into one, is the unity of time, place and people, fully embodies the ancestors of the Chinese nation in pursuit of "heaven, earth, people" harmony and unity, pay attention to conform to the time and place, follow the laws of nature's thinking.

Customs of the Qingming Festival:

One of the ancestor sweeping

Ancestor sweeping, which is the main custom of the Qingming Festival. There are many forms of commemorating ancestors on the Qingming Festival, and sweeping the graves is one of the earliest customs, which continues to this day and is gradually simplifying its form as society progresses. Because cremated remains are becoming more and more common, people go to the place where the ashes are placed to pay homage to their ancestors, instead of sweeping the tomb.

Second, trekking

Trekking, also known as spring tour, is a folk long maintained a Qingming custom. Qingming season, spring, full of green, the natural world presents a vibrant scene, it is a good time to go out of the countryside.

Three, Cuju

Cuju is a kind of leather ball, made of leather ball skin, the inside and then stuffed with wool. Cuju is actually a soccer game in ancient China, but the rules are different from those of soccer nowadays. It is a very popular game played during the Qingming Festival in ancient times, and legend has it that it was invented by the Yellow Emperor.

Four, planting trees

Since ancient times, China has the habit of planting trees on Qingming Festival, and has been handed down to this day. Because before and after the Qingming, spring sunshine, spring rainfall, planting saplings are most likely to survive and grow faster.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Qingming Festival