Qingming is a traditional holiday in China?

The Qingming Festival is the traditional grand spring festival of the Chinese nation, belonging to a cultural tradition of caution, honoring ancestors and promoting filial piety. The traditional customs of Qingming are trekking, kite flying, grave sweeping, swinging, tree planting, tug-of-war, willows, etc. The following is a look at the specific customs of the introduction to it~~

1, trekking. Qingming Festival, spring is bright and beautiful, so China has been the Qingming Festival for many years the habit of trekking, in recent years, all over the country will be based on different climates to carry out a number of flower festivals, picking festivals for people to go out on excursions to provide a more colorful and colorful activities.

2, kite flying. Kite flying is the spring people's favorite activities, Qingming Festival kite flying is also one of the customs, some areas will also organize the kite festival, children flying kites, you can wait for the kite to fly higher and higher when cutting the line in the hands of the kite, so that the kite is free to fly into the blue sky, it is said that there is to ward off evil spirits and disasters, bring good luck.

3, tomb sweeping. Ching Ming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, sweeping the tomb, that is, cleaning up around the cemetery weeds, to express the grief and respect for ancestors. The custom of Qingming is said to have begun in ancient times when emperors and generals went out to the countryside to hold a "tomb sacrifice" ceremony, which was later copied by the people, and thus began to sweep the tombs and pay homage to their ancestors. The Tang people began to follow the previous generation of tomb worship custom, and expanded to hit the whole society.

4, swinging. This is an ancient Chinese Qingming Festival customs. Swinging, meaning migrating by the leather rope. Its history is very old, the earliest called the thousand autumn, after in order to avoid taboos, changed to swing. In ancient times, the swing was mostly made of tree branches as a frame, and then tied with colorful ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and a pedal. Swinging can not only improve health, but also cultivate the spirit of bravery, and is still loved by people, especially children.

5, tree planting. While our country stipulates that March 12 every year for the Tree Planting Day, but the Qingming Festival, precipitation is gradually increasing, the weather is warming up, it is a good time to plant trees, this time planting saplings are easy to survive, so the Qingming Festival planting trees has also become a kind of customary activities.

6, tug of war. Early called "pulling the hook" "hook strong", the Tang Dynasty began to call "tug of war". It was invented in the late Spring and Autumn period, began to prevail in the military, and later spread to the people. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty held a large-scale tug-of-war competition at the time of the Qingming Festival. Since then, tug-of-war has become part of the Qingming custom. Holding tug-of-war at the time of spring plowing and planting during the Ching Ming Festival has the meaning of praying for a good harvest.　　

7, willow, wearing willow. In the concept of the ancients, the willow tree has magical powers, take willow branches on the household, the ghosts do not enter the home. Tang people think that March 3 in the riverside rituals, head wear willow branches can get rid of the harm of poisonous insects. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Qingming Festival willow custom is very prevalent.

The origin of the Qingming Festival

The origin of the Qingming Festival is said to have begun in ancient times with the rituals of the tomb sacrifice of the emperors and generals, and then the folk also followed suit, and on this day, the ancestor sweeping the tomb, which has been inherited over the generations and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival were two different festivals, but in the Tang Dynasty, the day of tomb-sweeping was designated as the Cold Food Festival. The correct day for the Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, around the time of Qingming, and because of the similarity of the two days, Qingming and Cold Food were combined into one day."