What are the other customs of the Qingming Festival

Ching Ming Festival is one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, Qingming Festival, also known as the March Festival, Festival of Ancestors, Treading Green Festival, etc., there are many customs of the Qingming Festival, the whole country due to the different regional cultures and the existence of customary content or details of the differences.

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? The first is to sweep the graves and pay homage to the ancestors.

Sweeping ancestors is a way of remembering the ancestors, and its custom has a long history. According to archaeological evidence more than 10,000 years ago, the ancients already have a clear conscious burial behavior and ritual concepts. Qingming festival before and after the Qingming, there are differences in different places, Qingming festival can be divided into different places of worship according to the tomb festival, shrine festival. Tomb Sacrifice, refers to the cemetery to the ancestors to express the sacrificer's filial piety and the feelings of longing for the ancestors, belongs to the respect for ancestors, a cultural tradition of prudence.

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 and add new soil, clear the weeds, offer the food to the ancestors in front of the graves, and then incinerate the paper money, and then bow down to the rituals of worship. Chinese people are influenced by the traditional cultural psychology, has a strong family concept, especially the importance of the family, ancestors, the worship of ancestors, back to the original sense is particularly strong, in the ancestral cleaning is a special way of remembering the ancestors.

Chinese people pay attention to the end of the day, and this concept of the relevant ritual activities were more than enough. With the passage of history, most of these activities are now in decline, but only the Qingming Festival tomb sweeping, inheritance is still not bad, and therefore experts as one of the longest-lasting life force of folklore events.

The Chinese people have had the custom of trekking since ancient times. Treading green ancient called spring, spring, that is, spring excursions, also known as "spring". Generally refers to the early spring to the countryside to walk and play. Treading green this seasonal folk activities, in our country has a long history, its source is the ancient farming rituals to welcome spring customs. This kind of farming rituals to welcome spring custom has far-reaching influence on the later generations. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, and nature presents a vibrant scene everywhere, which is a good time for excursions. People were taking advantage of the opportunity to sweep the graves, but also a family of young and old in the mountains and countryside between the wild to play some.

Chinese folk have long maintained the Qingming trekking habit, trekking custom has a long history. When everything is sprouting, it has become a custom to welcome the spring outing in the field. According to "Jin Shu" records: every spring, people have to travel to the countryside in the spring to enjoy the scenery. The custom of trekking to the Tang and Song Dynasty is particularly flourishing. According to the "old Tang Book" records: "Dali two years in February of nonwo, the lucky Kunming Pond trekking." It can be seen, the custom of spring tour has long been popular.

The Qingming Festival is a beautiful spring, green trees. People on this day trekking, tomb sweeping, graves. Everyone has to wear willow, and every family door inserted willow branches. Where exactly does this custom come from? There is a legend that the Qingming Festival is related to Liu Yong, a great lyricist of the Song Dynasty. It is said that Liu Yong lived a debauched life and often traveled to and from the streets and alleys. At that time, courtesans loved his talent and were proud to be favored by Liu Yong. However, because of his unruly life, Liu Yong was not allowed to pursue a career, and even though he won a bachelor's degree, he finally died in poverty in Xiangyang. His burial expenses were collected by the songstresses who admired him. Every year at the Qingming Festival, the songstresses went to his grave to insert willow branches in honor of him, and over time the custom of inserting willow at the Qingming Festival was established.

In fact, this custom as early as the Tang Dynasty. The Tang people believe that March 3 in the riverside rituals, head wearing willow branches can get rid of the harm of poisonous insects. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the custom of sticking willow on Qingming Festival was very popular, and people came back from trekking and playing, sticking willow in front of their houses to avoid pests and epidemics. Whether it is folklore or historical records, the Qingming Festival willow is always related to avoid disease. Spring warming climate, a variety of germs began to reproduce, people in the case of poor medical conditions can only hope to shake the willow branches.

The early tug-of-war called "pulling the hook" "hook strong", the Tang Dynasty began to call "tug-of-war". It was invented in the late Spring and Autumn period, began to prevail in the military, and later spread to the people. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, a large-scale tug-of-war competition was held during the Qingming Festival, and since then, tug-of-war has become part of the Qingming custom. One year of the Qingming Festival, Tang Emperor made the dynasty civil and military officers above the third grade, together with the bachelor, etc., gathered in the palace stadium, held in batches of tug-of-war, the rope used is a large hemp rope tied to the ends of more than 1,000 small ropes, hundreds of people were divided into two teams to hold on to the ends of the game, the weak for the losers, the Emperor with his empress, concubines, princesses to the battle, a moment of shouting, the ground shaking the mountains, showing an unprecedented pomp and circumstance. It is said that, at the time of the spring plowing and planting of the Qingming Festival held tug-of-war, with the meaning of praying for a good harvest, successive emperors naturally attach great importance to.

Since ancient times, China has the habit of planting trees at Qingming. Some people also call the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day". The custom of planting trees has been handed down to this day. Why plant trees on Qingming Day? This is because before and after the Qingming, spring sunshine, spring rain sprinkled, planting plant survival rate is high, fast growth, so the proverb says "before and after the Qingming point of melon planting beans".

The folklore of tree planting originated from funeral customs. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, feudal rulers began to plant trees on graves, but at that time tree planting was only a sign of the ruler's status. The common people were not allowed to set up graves and plant trees, so planting trees on graves was not yet popular. To the Spring and Autumn period, the people began to imitate the ruler's behavior in the grave tree planting, and at this time the planting of trees is only as a sign of the ancestral tomb and the existence of a sign.

Flying kites is one of the favorite activities of the Qingming Festival. Ancient people believed that if someone was sick, they could write or draw their illnesses on a kite, tie the kite with a string and fly it in the air, let it fly to high altitude and pull the string to cut it, so that the illnesses and disasters would fly away with the kite. Later, the kite also gradually developed into a popular recreational activities.

The Qing Dynasty's Pan RongHang's book, "Imperial Capital Years and Years of Record", recorded that: "During the Qingming Festival, men and women come out of the four suburbs to visit the tombs, and they carry paper kites and spools of paper kites to offer sacrifices to the gods and to the people. Each carries a paper kite spool, and after sweeping, it is put in front of the grave to win." Ancient people also think that the wind of Qingming is very suitable for kite flying. The Qingjia Records said, "Spring wind from the bottom up, the paper kite because of it, so there is a 'Qingming put off the harrier' of the proverb." In ancient times, kite-flying was not only a kind of amusement activity, but also a kind of witchcraft behavior: they believed that kite-flying could let go of one's own dirty qi. So when many people flew kites during the Qingming Festival, they wrote all the calamities and diseases they knew on the paper kite, and when the kite was flying high, they cut the kite string and let the paper kite float away with the wind, symbolizing that they let their own illnesses and filthiness be taken away by the kite.

The Qingming Festival is an important festival of traditional Chinese culture, which reminds us to respect life and express our thoughts about our loved ones. We hope that we can all meet on this festive occasion, fully feel the warmth of spring, and pass on the deep cultural connotations of the Chinese nation. I wish you all the best for the Qingming Festival, so that you can get the blessings of the festival, and may you be well and happy!