A healthy body is the mirror of the sun and the moon, with a clean sleeve and a mirror hanging high. What festival is this?

Analysis:

"Be healthy and upright, learn from the sun and the moon, and hang the mirror with clean hands" is a riddle about traditional festivals. Good health and clean hands all show that a person is honest, that is, clean and white. So the answer is Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the picnic festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition left by the Chinese nation for thousands of years to sweep graves and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.

The historical development of Tomb-Sweeping Day has rich cultural connotations. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs vary from place to place in China. Although festival activities vary from place to place, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and going out for an outing are the same basic customs.

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Customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day's custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Although the custom of forbidding fire and eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day became a national folk custom only in the Song Dynasty, the custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history. In addition to climbing mountains and sweeping graves, the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day has also absorbed a series of folk sports activities such as swinging, cuju, polo and willow planting in its historical development.

The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day has continued since ancient times. Even in today's society, people still visit graves around Tomb-Sweeping Day to pay homage to their ancestors: uprooting weeds, placing offerings, burning incense and praying in front of graves, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bunch of flowers to express their memory of their ancestors.

Qingming outing is also called spring outing. In ancient times, it was called spring exploration. It means stepping on the grass, playing in the country and watching the spring. Qingming Festival is the time when spring returns to the earth. People use the benefits to pay homage to their ancestors, and the whole family, old and young, enjoy themselves in the countryside of Shan Ye.

Walking and ancestor worship are the earliest customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. With the passage of history, the concept of family and ancestor worship in many places has gradually faded, and most of these activities have declined. In ancient times, the traditional custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors was still popular in Lingnan area, and it has been passed down to this day. Whenever Tomb-Sweeping Day, no matter where they are, people will go back to their hometown to participate in ancestor worship activities.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a festival for people to worship their ancestors, but also a link for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in customs, but it can be summarized into two festivals and traditions: one is to respect ancestors and pursue the future cautiously; The second is outing and getting close to nature.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tomb-Sweeping Day