Why is the Qingming Festival a festival rich in character?

Because the festival is characterized by the sadness and sorrow of the separation of life and death, as well as by the laughter of the people who go out to play.

The Qingming Festival, with its natural and humanistic connotations, is one of the "twenty-four solar terms" as well as a traditional festival of ancestor worship. "Twenty-four seasons" is the product of the ancient farming civilization, it is linked with the dry time and gossip, has a long history of origin. The "24 Solar Terms" not only played a guiding role in agricultural production, but also influenced the ancient people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, and even cultural concepts.

The Qingming Festival is the grandest and most important ancestor festival of the Chinese nation, which is a traditional cultural festival of honoring ancestors and tracing the past to the present. The Qingming Festival unites the spirit of the nation, inherits the sacrificial culture of the Chinese civilization, and expresses the moral feelings of people respecting their ancestors and their ancestors, and following up their ancestors' deeds. Sweeping the tomb, that is, "tomb sacrifice", which is called the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect", spring and autumn two sacrifices, ancient. The Qingming Festival has a long history, originating from the ancient beliefs of the ancestors and the rituals of the spring festival.

According to the results of modern anthropological and archaeological research, the two most primitive beliefs of mankind are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. According to archaeological excavations, the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, has discovered a 10,000-year-old tomb, which is the earliest recognizable burial in China, indicating that the ancient ancestors already had a clear and conscious concept of burial behavior and rituals 10,000 years ago.