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Tomb-Sweeping Day's composition has roots and ancestors.

During the Qingming Festival, it rained so much that pedestrians on the road wanted to be heartbroken. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.

Time flies, time flies, Tomb-Sweeping Day along the way.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional folk festival in China, and it is one of the "eight major festivals". Generally, it is around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar, and the festival is very long. There are two sayings: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10, and these 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day.

This is a festival of offering sacrifices to ancestors, and it is also a festival of "missing relatives during the festival".

In the morning, mom and grandma get up early and have to do a lot of things. They go to the market to buy vegetables and meat, including onions, peas, native chickens, pork and pork. Then I go to the market to buy fruit. After my mother bought all kinds of things, I went home to kill chickens and buy firecrackers with my father on the spot ... to prepare for the grave-sweeping. Mother told us, "Don't run around after dinner, and you will be ready to go to the grave."

Dad, grandma and uncle are busy from 6 to 7. Almost ready, and then set off by car.

It took me about half an hour to reach my destination. Full of joy, I took things up the mountain to sweep grandpa's grave.

I saw my grandparents carefully pull out the weeds on the earthen bread, and then put some fruits and vegetables on the slate in front of two big and curved earthen bread, muttering something in their mouths. Everyone looks serious and the atmosphere is so silent.

Dad told me the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day and why I went to visit the grave. I shook my head gently, as if I understood something.

This grave-sweeping ceremony is the closing ceremony. When I got home, the plot of sweeping the grave still floated in my mind.