What are the origins and customs of the Qingming Festival?

The courtier of Duke Wen of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period in his distress, cut his own flesh to give him relief from hunger, and later in the Duke Wen became the 5 hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, but he lived in hiding in the mountains and forests and did not want to be rewarded.

When Duke Wen was looking for him he set fire to the mountain, he preferred to die rather than come out, and later on the tree where he died, he was found to have left behind a poem, mainly urging Duke Wen to keep his integrity. The last line is like this: "Qingming is clear again". Therefore, the day was designated as the Qingming Festival, and the whole country ate cold food.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, a day for sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors.

The Qingming Festival originally referred to the fifteen days after the vernal equinox, and in 1935 the government of the Republic of China explicitly designated April 5 as a national holiday, the Qingming Festival, which is also called the National Tomb Sweeping Festival. Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals. Ancestor worship and trekking are the two main ritual themes of Qingming Festival, which have been passed down in China for thousands of years and are still going on today.

In May 2006, the Qingming Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, and in 2008, it was approved by the State Council as a national legal holiday.

By the solar calendar, the Qingming Festival falls between April 4 and 6 every year, and as one of the twenty-four festivals, it began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming Festival as a festival has a close relationship with agricultural production. Qingming day, the temperature rises, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting, so there are "before and after the Qingming, point melon planting beans", "planting trees and forests, no more than the Qingming" of the farmers' proverbs, which is the Qingming Festival in the guidance of the significance and value of farming.

With the modernization of agricultural production methods, the influence of the Qingming Festival as an agricultural festival has been slowly weakened, and now it is a festival to commemorate ancestors, sweeping tombs and sacrificing to ancestors, practicing filial piety, remembrance of the memory, and trekking to the countryside has become the basic theme of the festival, and it is also the cultural core of intangible cultural heritage that needs to be inherited and carried forward, and it is also where the core value of the festival lies.

The Qingming Festival is the only traditional festival that has the dual attributes of a festival and a festival, which is the combination and sublimation of almost all spring festivals, and is one of the traditional festivals with richer cultural connotations.

Extended information:

Historical origins

The Qingming Festival has a long history, originating from the ancient times of the Spring Festival, Spring and Autumn Festival, ancient. The formulation of the ancient stem and branch calendar provided the prerequisites for the creation of the festival, and the belief in ancestors and the culture of sacrifice were important factors in the formation of the Qingming Festival.

The Qingming Festival has two major connotations, namely, the Qingming Festival and the Qingming Festival, and the Qingming Festival provides important conditions for the formation of the Qingming Festival in terms of time and meteorological characteristics. The Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four specific festivals that represent seasonal changes in the ancient stem-branch calendar, where the vitality is strong, the temperature rises, everything is clean, and the earth shows the image of spring and scenery, which is a good time for trekking in the countryside (spring excursions) and traveling to the Qing Dynasty (tomb festivals).

The Qingming Festival integrates festivals and folklore, and is the unity of heaven, earth and man. Qingming rituals and culture fully embodies the ancestors of the Chinese people in pursuit of "heaven, earth, people" harmony and unity, pay attention to the time and place, follow the laws of nature.

The traditional concept of "unity of heaven and mankind" is vividly embodied in the Qingming Festival. Through the evolution of historical development, the Qingming Festival has blended the customs of the Cold Food Festival and the Shangsi Festival, and mixed a variety of folklore into one, with extremely rich cultural connotations.

The Qingming Festival is the most grand festival of the Chinese nation, which belongs to a cultural tradition of honoring ancestors, promoting filial piety, and tracing the past to the present. Qingming Festival cohesion of the national spirit, inherited the sacrificial culture of the Chinese civilization, express people respect for ancestors and ancestors, following the moral feelings of the story.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Qingming Festival

81 17

Next Answer