Pictures about Qingming Festival

Sketches related to Qingming Festival:

Kite Flying:

The kite is also known as organ, paper harrier, harrier, paper kite. Originated in China, it is a kind of communication tool invented by ancient working people, the first kite was made by Lu Ban with bamboo, and then only the paper kite was available in the imperial palace. It is called wind blowing in Minnan language.

The kite is a heavier-than-air, able to float in the air with the help of wind power products. In the late Tang Dynasty, people added bamboo flute on the paper kite, and after the paper kite flew up to the sky and was blown by the wind, it made a "woo-woo" sound, as if the kite was playing, so people changed the name of "paper kite" to "kite".

Modern times, the modern kite has been used for many years.

Modern kites and kites as a general term, including the paper kites without whistles.

Flying kites is a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. Every Qingming Festival, people not only fly them 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". In the past, some people put the kite on the blue sky, then cut the line, let the wind send them to the end of the world, it is said that this can eliminate diseases and bring good luck to themselves.

2. Related to Du Mu's "Qingming":

"Qingming" is a poem written by Du Mu, a writer in Tang Dynasty. This poem is about what you see in the spring rain at Qingming, with light colors and a bleak state of mind, which has been widely recited. The first line explains the scene, environment, and atmosphere; the second line writes about the character, showing the character's bleak and confused state of mind; the third line proposes a way to get rid of this state of mind; the fourth line writes about the answer with action, which is the highlight of the whole piece. The whole poem utilizes the technique of rising gradually from low to high, with the climax being placed at the end, which makes the remaining rhyme far away and intriguing.

Original text:

Ching Ming

The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and people on the road want to break their souls.

Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom village.

3. Tomb-sweeping and Sacrifice

Tomb-sweeping and ancestor-sacrifice is the center of Qingming festival customs. Qingming Festival is the spring festival of the Chinese nation, and Qingming Spring Festival corresponds to the Chrysanthemum Festival of the fall festival. Qingming tomb sweeping, that is, "tomb sacrifice", which is called the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect", its custom has a long history. The Qingming Tomb Sweeping and Ancestor Sacrifice rituals are related to beliefs, sacrifices, calendars, festivals and other human and natural cultural contents.

The Chinese people have been honoring their ancestors since ancient times, and have been careful in pursuing the concept of rituals and customs. In the ancient times, agriculture was the main business of the traditional society, in order to have a good harvest, in addition to praying for the natural wind and rain, we also have to ask for the blessing of the ancestors, which led to the gradual formation of the tradition of spring festival at the time of the Qingming Festival. Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship customs before the pre-Qin period, due to the pre-Qin period of the north and south of the customs are different, some places to sweep the tomb is not necessarily on the occasion of the Qingming Festival. In the pre-Qin era, some places mainly sweep the tomb in the cold food festival and the cold clothes festival, to the Tang and Song dynasty after the Qingming Tomb Sweeping began to prevail in the country.