Please write down the customs of Qingming Festival:(no less than 3 kinds)

Traditional Customs of Qingming Festival I: Sweeping the Tomb and Paying Tribute to Ancestors

The custom of paying tribute to ancestors and sweeping the tomb has been inherited for a long time in China's history, and on the day of the Qingming Festival, cold food and fire are forbidden to pay tribute to the ancestors. Although the cold food and fire ban is no longer popular nowadays, the custom of worshipping ancestors still exists. Before and after the Qingming Festival, people will go back and forth to their graves to sweep and pay tribute to their ancestors, shoveling out weeds, placing offerings, worshipping their ancestors, offering incense and silence, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bouquet of flowers, in order to send their remembrances of their ancestors.

Traditional customs of the Qingming Festival II: Cuju

Ju is a kind of leather ball, the ball skin made of leather, the ball stuffed with wool tight, called Cuju, similar to today's soccer. Cuju, is to use the foot to kick the ball. This is an ancient Qingming Festival when people love a game. It is said to have been invented by the Yellow Emperor and was originally used to train warriors.

Traditional Customs of Qingming Festival 3: Treading Green

Spring returns to the earth during the Qingming Festival, and many places have already regained vitality, presenting a thriving scene in nature. At this time is a great time for spring tour, China's folk have always maintained the Qingming trekking habits.

Traditional Customs of Qingming Festival IV: Kite Flying

Kite flying is one of the popular customs. In ancient times, kite flying was not only a game, but also considered as an act of witchcraft. In ancient times, some people believed that flying kites could let go of one's unclean qi. Therefore, many people would write their illnesses on the paper kite when they flew the kite on the Ching Ming Festival, and then cut the kite string when the kite was flying high, so that the kite would go away with the wind. This symbolizes that one's illness will also disappear.

Ching Ming Festival traditional custom five: tree planting

Ching Ming Festival, before and after the spring rain, spring breeze and warm, it is a good time to plant trees. At this time, planting saplings have a high survival rate and grow fast. So from ancient times to the present our country have Qingming Festival tree planting habit. It has been handed down to this day.

Expanded Information:

Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, the line of the Qing Festival, the festival in the middle of spring and the twilight of the spring. The festival takes place between mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival and a traditional festival.

Ching Ming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, remembering ancestors, is the Chinese nation for thousands of years left behind a fine tradition, not only to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family **** with the memory.

Can also promote family members and even national cohesion and identity. Qingming Festival in the development of history carries a rich cultural connotation, the country due to the different regional cultures and there are differences in the content or details of the custom, although the festivals are not the same, but tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship, trekking is *** with the theme of the basic rituals and customs.

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