Tomb-Sweeping Day traditional festival information

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. Is the traditional grand Spring Festival in China, which belongs to the traditional cultural festival of pursuing the future with caution, worshipping ancestors and promoting filial piety. There are many customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Due to different regional cultures, the contents or details of customs are also different. Although local customs are different, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and hiking are the same basic customs and themes. Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a solemn festival to pay homage to ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, travel and enjoy the fun of spring.

2. Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day's combination of solar terms and folk customs is the unity of climate, geography and human harmony. The culture of Qingming etiquette and custom fully embodies the idea that the ancestors of the Chinese nation pursued the harmony of "heaven, earth and people", paid attention to conforming to the harmony between the right place and the right time and following the laws of nature. According to archaeological research, the tomb of Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is 10,000 years ago, shows that the ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs 10,000 years ago. 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.

The weather in Tomb-Sweeping Day is usually around April 5th in Gregorian calendar. Tomb-Sweeping Day used to be just a solar term, but later it merged with the Cold Food Festival to produce the Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a very long festival, and there are two sayings:/kloc-8 days after 0/0 and 10 days after 0/0. These nearly 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. From 65438 to 0935, the government of the Republic of China designated April 5th as a national statutory holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival. In 2006, Tomb-Sweeping Day was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.