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A piece of Japanese composition about Qingming

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, the Walking Green Festival, the March Festival, and the Ancestors' Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the belief in ancestors and the rituals of spring festival in the ancient times, and has both natural and humanistic connotations, which makes it both a natural festival point and a traditional festival. Sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors and going on excursions are the two main ritual themes of the Qingming Festival, which have been passed down from ancient times in China and are still practiced today. [1-4]

The Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is both a solemn festival for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, and a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, trekking in the green and enjoying the fun of spring. The Qingming Festival is celebrated on the Doji B (or when the sun's yellow meridian reaches 15°), and the time of the festival is around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar. This time of the year, angry and vigorous, the decline of yin, everything "spit out the old and new", the earth shows the image of spring and landscape, it is the countryside trekking and spring line Qing tomb festival of a good time. Qingming ancestor festival is very long, there are 10 days before 8 days after and 10 days before 10 days after the two say, this nearly 20 days are within the Qingming ancestor festival period.

The Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, in memory of ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, not only to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, but also to promote the cohesion of the family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity. Qingming Festival integration of natural festivals and human customs as a whole, is the unity of time, place and people, fully embodies the ancestors of the Chinese people in pursuit of "heaven, earth, people" harmony and unity, pay attention to conform to the time and place, follow the laws of nature of the mind.

The Qingming Festival, together with the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four major traditional Chinese festivals. In addition to China, Qingming Festival is also celebrated in some other countries and regions of the world, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. On May 20, 2006, the Qingming Festival declared by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was approved by the State Council to be included in the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages (Category: Folklore; No.: X-2).

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