The importance of the Qingming Festival, and Shanxi Hongtong Dahuishu Roots and Ancestors Garden.

It's almost time for the traditional Han and other ethnic festivals Qingming, Qingming is the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. This is the time of the year when everything is alive and well, and everything is in harmony.

In folklore, Qingming is characterized by tomb-sweeping, willow-planting, trekking, and springtime excursions. No matter where you are, you will usually go back to your hometown to pay homage to your ancestors, honor them, and sweep their graves during the Qingming Festival to express your grief and hopes.

China formally adopted and implemented the "Chinese People's **** and State Martyrs Protection Law", which also means that the importance of Qingming, inheritance of the red spirit, the cohesion of the struggle, thanks to the reverence for the pursuit of the heroes of the heart, is very important to everyone.

Speaking of ancestor worship have to mention the country as a theme of ancestor worship for the people's shrine, have to mention the Shanxi Hongtong Dahuishu Roots Festival Park Tourist Area, also listed as a national intangible cultural heritage list.

The actual record of the Ming dynasty recorded in detail, due to the establishment of the Ming dynasty, after the war, the number of people in the Central Plains is scarce, and Shanxi population, in order to maintain the feudal rule of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang began to order the Shanxi part of the relocation of the scarcity of people in the most serious of the Shandong Jining settlements, would like to relocate to the distribution of seeds and oxen, and for three years do not have to pay taxes.

Zhu Di became emperor due to the war after the war, the population once again greatly reduced, again forced part of the people of Shanxi to the national migration, the father and the two large-scale migration up to 50 years.

At that time, the people ate all the pain of Shanxi people, are not willing to leave their homes. In order to complete the task, the soil will be released to the public that do not want to move the waste to the county Yamen to receive a blood handprint, where not press the blood handprints of men, women, children and young people will be moved to the waste. The people believed in the truth, have to go to the county magistrate to press the blood seal.

However, the officials and soldiers will be reluctant to move all round, tied with a rope, escorted to Hongtong under the big acacia tree, only to know that the pawns, had to migrate. At that time, crying like a tide of tears, the old man pointed to the acacia tree under the old stork nest constantly urged: "children to remember Shanxi Hongtong old stork nest, I bamboo from this migration out.

From then on, the old stork's nest in the big locust tree became

Many people can not erase the traces of grief, can not let go of the hometown feelings. Now Shanxi Hongtong Da Saihuai tree roots of the ancestral garden tourism area, visitors every day, especially the Qingming friends from all over the world, but also with a heart of Zhicheng to ancestors, all miss Da Saihuai old acacia tree to support the sadness of the love of each other.