Origin of Tomb Sweeping

The Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang ruled Shu, won the hearts of the people, but after his death, the court did not build a temple for it, so the people in the cold food during the road in the field to pay homage. Later, the imperial court self-examination of the improper handling, officially attached to the sacrifice of Zhuge Liang in the ancestral (Liu Bei) temple, but the custom of the cold food field festival has been formed, and evolved into the people to sweep the graves of their ancestors.

Tomb-sweeping:

Tomb-sweeping, that is, "tomb sacrifice", but also to the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect", the custom has a long history. The north is called the grave, some places will sweep the tomb called "sweep the mountain" or "worship mountain", etc., some parts of the south called "hanging mountain or" hanging paper ". Worship "mountain" is divided into two kinds: one is from the parents up to the ancestors within three generations of the ancestors, called "family mountain", worship family mountain called "family sacrifice"; the other is the ancestors of the clan worship, called "ancestor mountain", "ancestor mountain". The other is the worship of the ancestors of the clan, called "Ancestral Mountain" and "Popular Mountain", and the worship of Ancestral Mountain is called "Sweeping Popular Mountain".

Tomb-sweeping, which means going to the cemetery to pay homage to ancestors to express the filial piety of the worshipper and the feeling of missing the ancestors, belongs to a kind of cultural tradition of honoring the ancestors and catching up with the ancestors in a prudent manner. According to the custom, people usually set out to sweep the graves in the morning. When sweeping the graves, people have to bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the graveyard, repair the graves, cultivate new soil, remove weeds, offer the food in front of the graves of the ancestors, and then incinerate the paper money, and then bow down and pay homage to the ancestors. Chinese people are affected by the traditional cultural psychology, has a strong family concept, especially the importance of the family, ancestors, ancestor worship, return to the original sense of particularly strong, in the ancestral cleaning is a special way to remember the ancestors.