Contemporary Status of Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, remembering ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, not only conducive to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the same memories, but also promote the cohesion of family members and even national cohesion and sense of identity. Qingming Festival integration of natural festivals and human customs as a whole, is the unity of time, place and people, fully embodies the ancestors of the Chinese people in pursuit of "heaven, earth, people" harmony and unity, pay attention to conform to the time and place, follow the laws of nature of the idea. Qingming Festival, together with Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four major traditional festivals in China. In addition to China, some other countries and regions in the world also celebrate Qingming Festival, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. On May 20, 2006, the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China*** and the State Council approved the Qingming Festival to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In Guangdong, sweeping tombs at Qingming is known as sweeping the mountains, worshipping the mountains, and worshipping the Qing. Qingming Festival in Guangdong has been presented in the spring and the scene of the image of bright, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship, trekking excursions is the main ritual theme of the Guangdong people for the festival.