What are the traditional customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Traditional customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day include grave-sweeping, spring outing, swinging and so on.

1, sweeping graves to worship ancestors

Grave-sweeping is the center of Tomb-Sweeping Day custom. In some places, sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day is called "sweeping mountains", "offering sacrifices to heaven" or "offering sacrifices to mountains". Out of respect for ancestors, or out of the rhetorical habit of "doing everything except evil, calling it beauty". Tomb-Sweeping Day is a cultural tradition of paying homage to his ancestors and pursuing the future with caution, mainly offering sacrifices to his ancestors and expressing his filial piety and yearning for them. In addition to the "mountain sacrifice" for sweeping graves, there are ancestral temple sacrifices in later generations, which are called "temple sacrifices".

Step 2 go for a spring outing

Qingming Festival is the season of warm spring in bloom, and everything is in bud, so it has long been a custom to have a spring outing in the wild. Going for an outing is also called a spring outing. In ancient times, it was called spring exploration. This seasonal folk activity, outing, has a long history in China, and its source is the ancient Spring Festival custom of farming sacrifice. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, and nature presents a vibrant scene everywhere, which is a good time to go for an outing. People use the opportunity of sweeping graves to have fun with their families in mountainous areas and rural areas.

Step 3: Swing

This is the custom of ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day in China. Swing, that is, lift the rope, move. It has a very long history. It was originally called Qian Qiu, but later it was changed into a swing to avoid taboos. In ancient times, swings were made of branches and tied with ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into two ropes, a pedal swing.

The cultural connotation of Tomb-Sweeping Day;

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancestors' beliefs and spring sacrificial customs of early human beings. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day's integration of natural solar terms and humanistic customs is a combination of humanistic and natural conditions, which fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' pursuit of harmony between heaven, earth and people, pays attention to conforming to the right time, place and people, and follows the laws of nature.