Jining's Qingming Festival Customs

Customs of Qingming Festival in Jining Area 1: Tree Planting

Before and after Qingming, the spring sun shines, the spring sun shines, the spring rain flies, the planting of saplings has a high survival rate and grows fast. Therefore, since ancient times, our country has Qingming tree-planting habits. Some people also call the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day". Tree-planting custom has been handed down to the present day. 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress stipulated that every year on March 12 for China's Tree Planting Day. This is to mobilize the people of all nationalities to actively carry out activities to green the motherland, has a very important significance.

Customs of Qingming Festival in Jining Area 2: Banning Fire, Sweeping Tomb

No fire cooking, eating cold food, and sweeping the tomb to pay tribute to the ancestors on Qingming Day, this is the most widespread traditional Qingming Festival customs.

Customs of Qingming Festival in Jining Area 3: Kite Flying

Every Qingming Festival, people not only fly kites in the daytime, but also at night. At night, under the kite or on the wind steady pull line hangs a string of small colorful lanterns, like the flickering star, known as the "God lamp". In the past, some people put the kite on the blue sky, they 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.