What are the customs of Qingming Festival in China?

Customs of Qingming Festival in China include trekking, planting trees, sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, flying kites, and planting willows.

1, trekking

The Chinese people have had the custom of trekking on Qingming Day since ancient times. Treading green ancient called spring, spring, that is, spring excursions, also known as "spring". Generally refers to the early spring to the countryside to walk and play.

2, tree planting

Before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines, the spring rain sprinkles, planting saplings with a high survival rate, fast growth. Therefore, there is a Qingming tree planting custom, some people also called the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day".

3, tomb sweeping ancestors

Tomb sweeping on Qingming, that is, "tomb sacrifice", said the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect", ancestral worship is the way to the memory of the ancestors, the custom has a long history.

4, flying kites

Kites, also known as "paper kites", "kites", kite flying is a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. Kites are made of paper or silk on a skeleton made of bamboo gabions, and they are pulled by a long line tied to it, and can be flown up to the sky while the wind is blowing, which belongs to a kind of flying machine that utilizes aerodynamic power alone. During the Qingming Festival, people not only fly kites in the daytime, but also at night. At night, a string of small colorful lanterns are hung under the kite or on the wind steady pulling line, like twinkling stars, which are called "divine lanterns".

5, willow

Qingming Festival, Chinese folk custom of willow. Qingming willow custom, the source of the prevalence of three sayings. Some experts believe that the custom of willow is to commemorate the "teach people to harvest" of the agricultural ancestor Shen Nong.