What can we do to continue the custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is mainly a festival of sweeping graves to worship ancestors and flying kites. Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important traditional festival in China and one of the 24 solar terms. Tomb-Sweeping Day, together with Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, is called the four traditional festivals in China.

What's the festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. , mainly from the ancestral beliefs and spring ceremonies in ancient times. Its two main customs are grave sweeping, ancestor worship and outing.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is mainly around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year, mostly on April 5. According to the direction of the Big Dipper bucket handle, when bucket handle points to the second position (the longitude of the sun reaches 15 degrees), it is Tomb-Sweeping Day gas.

Generally speaking, the activities in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day usually lasted from 10 days before Tomb-Sweeping Day to 10 days after Tomb-Sweeping Day. In some places, grave-sweeping activities lasted for one month. So far, it has become the activity of Tomb-Sweeping Day that day.

The main process of sweeping graves and offering sacrifices to ancestors is divided into two parts, one is to renovate graves, and the other is to hang paper money and offer sacrifices. It usually leaves in Tomb-Sweeping Day in the morning and ends in the afternoon.

The custom activity of Tomb-Sweeping Day outing mainly originated from Shangsi Festival on March 3rd. In ancient times, outing was called spring outing, spring seeking and spring outing, that is, spring outing. The outing mainly originated from the custom of welcoming the Spring Festival in ancient farming sacrifices.

Besides ancestor worship and outing, Tomb-Sweeping Day also has a series of customs such as flying kites, planting trees, inserting willows, tug of war, swinging, fighting cocks, shooting willows and cuju. Among them, flying kites was the most popular activity in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day.