Qingming Festival Education Content

The educational contents of Qingming Festival are as follows:

The traditional Qingming Festival in China probably began in the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago. With the deduction of time, the festival customs and the meaning of the purpose of the festival have been constantly changing.

In the beginning, Qingming was an important festival because after the festival, the temperature rises, the weather gets warmer day by day, and our people, who are mainly agricultural, start their year's labor.

So there used to be a saying: before and after Qingming, plant melons and beans; planting trees and forests, not more than Qingming. In my hometown, whenever around Qingming, a large number of sapling buyers and sellers would come to my hometown to transplant saplings that have already come to life. In fact, Qingming in the past was not a day of ancestor worship and grave-sweeping, but more a day of celebrating the new year's agricultural production, so Qingming Festival in the past was equivalent to what it was abroad: Thanksgiving Day.

In Chinese history, it has long been customary to ban fires and pay tribute to ancestors. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, so Qingming Festival tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship became an ongoing festival tradition since then. In today's society, people still have the custom of visiting the graves and paying homage to their ancestors before and after the Qingming Festival.

Before and after the Qingming Festival, it is a good time to go trekking, so it has become an important part of the Qingming Festival. In ancient times, women could not travel during the weekdays, Qingming Tomb Sweeping is a rare opportunity to trekking, so the women in the Qingming Festival than the men to play more fun, folk have "women's Qingming men's year" said.