What is the significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day civilization sacrifice?

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day's civilized sacrifice, which is called "respecting time" for ancestors, is a way of remembering ancestors, and its custom has a long history.

2. According to archaeological excavations, an ancient tomb of 10,000 years ago was found in Qingtang Site, Yingde, Guangdong. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) determined that it was the earliest tomb in China about 13500 years ago, indicating that the ancestors of Lingnan had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs more than 10000 years ago.

3. Grave-sweeping is the center of Tomb-Sweeping Day custom. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a cultural tradition of paying homage to his ancestors and pursuing the future with caution, mainly offering sacrifices to his ancestors and expressing his filial piety and yearning for them. According to the different places of sacrifice, Tomb-Sweeping Day can be divided into tomb sacrifice and ancestral temple sacrifice. Tomb sacrifice is the most common, and the Qingming sacrifice is characterized by tomb sacrifice. The reason why Qingming Festival is called sweeping graves is mainly because of the way of sweeping graves. Another form is ancestral temple sacrifice, also called temple fair sacrifice, which means that people of a clan gather in the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors first, and then have a meeting and dinner after the sacrifice. This kind of sacrifice is a way of ethnic reunion.