Information about Tomb-Sweeping Day.

China's traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day probably began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. With the interpretation of the times, festival customs and the purpose and significance of festivals have been constantly changing.

At first, Tomb-Sweeping Day was an important festival, because after Tomb-Sweeping Day, the temperature rose and the weather became warmer day by day, and our people, who were mainly agricultural, began to work for a year.

So there used to be a saying: before and after Qingming, plant melons and beans; Planting trees is not as clear as Qingming. In my hometown, whenever around Tomb-Sweeping Day, a large number of sapling dealers come to my hometown to transplant the surviving saplings. In fact, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves, but a day to celebrate agricultural production in the new year, so Tomb-Sweeping Day used to be equivalent to a foreign country: Thanksgiving Day.

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Tomb-Sweeping Day custom:

1, sweeping graves to worship ancestors

In the history of China, it has long been a custom to eat cold food, forbid fire and pay homage to ancestors. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, so it became a continuous festival tradition for Tomb-Sweeping Day to sweep graves to worship ancestors. In today's society, before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people still have the custom of paying homage to their ancestors: uprooting weeds, placing offerings, burning incense and praying at the grave, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bunch of flowers to express their memory of their ancestors.

Step 2 go for an outing

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a good time to go for an outing, so it has become an important part of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs. Ancient women could not go out casually on weekdays, and it was a rare opportunity for Tomb-Sweeping Day to visit the grave. Therefore, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, women have more fun than men, and there is a folk saying called "Women's Qingming Year".

Step 3 insert willow

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the time when willows sprout and smoke is green. There are folk customs of folding willow, piercing willow and inserting willow. When people go out for an outing, they break off some wicker branches, which can be played with in their hands, woven into hats and worn on their heads, or taken home and inserted on the lintels and eaves. The custom of inserting willow is related to avoiding epidemic.

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