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Poetry for Qingming Festival

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"Qingming" (Tang) Du Mu

The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. The pastor is pointing to the village of apricot blossoms. The shepherd boy is pointing to the apricot blossom village.

The Cold Eclipse on the Way (Tang) Song Zhiwen

The cold eclipse on the way, the twilight spring on the way. I have a poor view of the river, and I don't see anyone at the Luoqiao Bridge. I am sorry to see you in the river, but I don't see you at the bridge. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at this, but I'm sure I'll be able to get a good look at this.

"Cold Eclipse" (Tang) Han Jian (Shide)

The city of spring is full of flowers, and the east wind of the cold eclipse makes the willows slant. The candles were passed on to the Han Palace at sunset, and the smoke was scattered into the houses of the five vassals.

The Story of the Gate of Lv (Tang) Zhang Ji

The ploughman called for a boat, and the grass was green and ten thousand fields were in the spring; he tried to go up to the Wu Gate and peeped into the county, and there was new smoke in several places in the clear sky.

"Qingming" (Song) Wang Yu

Pretty no flowers and no wine over the Qingming, the taste is depressed like a wild monk. Yesterday, the neighbors begged for a new fire, and the dawn window was divided into reading lamps.

Su dike Qingming (Song) Wu Weixin

Pear blossom wind up is Qingming, travelers looking for spring half out of the city. The song is packed away at sunset, and ten thousand willows belong to the warblers.

The Cold Food on the Mound (Song) Yang Wanli

The road is straight, and the bridge is not free! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at the bridge. The mountains are far away, the maple is pale, the broken house is lonely by the wheat. The grass is still there in the spring breeze, and the new road is not there in the past year. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said.

Cheng Hao (Song) Hao Fanggrass green field wantonly act, spring into the distant mountains around the blue; Xing by messy red through the willow alley, solid because of the running water sitting moss iso; do not give up the wine is very persuasive, just afraid of the wind and flowers a piece of red; situation is the good weather of the Qingming Festival, may wish to swim Yanmo forget to go back.

"Qingming" (Southern Song Dynasty) Gao Shuar, the north and south of the mountains, many graves, Qingming festival each different. The ashes of the paper flew into hundreds of butterflies, and the blood of the tears stained the red azaleas. The fox sleeps on the mound at sunset, and the children return at night to laugh at the lamp. I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to get drunk, but I'm sure I'll be able to get to the bottom of it!

Send Chen Xiu Cai also sand on the provincial tomb (Ming) Gao Qi full of blood and tears and dust, after the chaos can also be sad to return home. The wind and rain, the pear blossoms and the cold food, how many graves of children and grandchildren to come?

The Qingjiang River Leader (Ming Dynasty) Wang Pan (Ming Dynasty) Where is the good place to ask the West Tower to prohibit smoking? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you'll be able to get your hands on some of the most popular ones.

The sky has neon dresses (contemporary) Liu Xiaofeng (Liu Zhou)

Contains five poems on the Qingming Festival:

One of them is: emaciated graveyard soil, see it as a relative; thousands of years of imitation of the things that this thing is the most hurt feelings (Note: Cizi, the year of the year of the Cizi, 1996.). Comment: Anyone who reads this poem and goes to the grave of a loved one will be able to recall this poem). The second is: Bizi Qingming: peach blossom pink and apricot blossom white, rain beat the flower branches and trees bloom; pedestrians quietly on the face, several graves cry sadly (Comment: This poem is written in the scene, with the scene to imply feelings. First write the delicate and colorful peach blossom and apricot blossom. The second is about the wind and rain beating the branches of the flowers. The flowers are quietly blooming. And then write the rain drops or also with teardrops, from the face of the pedestrians quietly sliding down, and then suddenly from a few graves not far away from the mournful cry. This is a Qingming grave scene full of life flavor, faint sadness with a slight warmth, so that people here covet to see the plainness of life and the greatness of human reproduction.) Third: Xin has been Qingming: Tian Gong is merciless most merciless, do not pity the earth filial son heart; to earn a small can be a tear, bear to teach the Qingming rain one after another (Note: Xin Si: 2001 Xin Si year.). Xiao Ke: the author humbly called. Commentary: Read this poem, as if the Qingming rain from the tears of filial piety into the rain and tears, tears make the rain cold. (Those who are raining down are not exactly the filial son's heart shedding tears, are they not?) Fourth: The wind blows grandmother in the rain, and the rain beats grandmother in the wind; every year on this day, we all shed tears, and every year, we lay our souls at the graveside. (5) There is no way to get to the grave on the eve of Ching Ming Festival; a few tears and paper money will be turned into money, and no one will be seen in the water or wine. Sixth: the roadside grass is budding, a bit of new green makeup yellow, even if there is no rain still tears, grandmother's grave in the pile of clouds.

Qing Ming Festival definition

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Qing Ming : qing ming ① clear and bright: the moonlight is clear. ② Sober and understandable: clear in mind. ③Politically enlightened, lawful and organized: the world is clear and bright｜Born in a clear and bright world. ④One of the twenty-four solar terms. On the fourth or fifth or sixth day of April every year, folk custom is to sweep the graves on this day: it rains one after another during Qingming Festival.

The rest of the Qingming Festival

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Qingming Tang Du Mu Qingming Festival rains in droves, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. The shepherd boy points to the apricot blossom village.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, the folklore approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Origin of Qingming Festival

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The Qingming Festival is an important traditional folk festival in China, and is one of the important "Eight Festivals" (Shangyuan, Qingming, Lixia, Duanwu, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn, Winter Solstice and New Year's Eve). Generally in the calendar on April 5, but its festival period is very long, there are ten days before eight days after and ten days before ten days after two kinds of say, this nearly twenty days are Qingming Festival.

The origin of the Qingming Festival, according to legend, began in ancient times, emperors and generals "tomb sacrifice" of the ceremony, and then the folk also follow suit, in this day to ancestral tomb, and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.

To talk about the Qingming Festival, we must start from the ancient a very famous, now lost festival - cold food festival.

The Cold Food Festival is also known as the Festival of Cooked Food, the Festival of Prohibition of Smoking, and the Cold Festival. Its date is one hundred and five days from the winter solstice, which is just one or two days from the Qingming Festival. The main custom of this festival is to prohibit fire, not allowed to cook over a fire, but only to eat prepared cooked food, cold food, hence the name.

The Cold Food Festival is said to have originated in the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period, in honor of Jie Tui, a vassal of the Duke of Jin. The Duke of Jin, Chong Er, went into exile for 19 years, and Jie Zi Pui escorted and followed him, making a great achievement, and Chong Er returned to his country and assumed the throne as the Duke of Jin, that is, the Duke of Jin. Jie Zi Pui carried his mother on his back and hid in Mian Mountain. Duke Wen of Jin went to look for him, but could not find him. So he set fire to the mountain to force Jie Zi Tui out. Unexpectedly, Jie Zi Tui hugged a big tree with his mother and preferred to burn to death rather than come out of the mountain. Duke Wen of Jin sadly ordered to change the name of Mianshan Mountain to Jieshan (i.e., Jieshan Mountain in Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province), and ordered that the day Jie Zi push was burned to death be designated as the Cold Food Festival, and in the following years, every Cold Food Festival to prohibit fires and to eat cold food, to show that the intention of memorializing the memory of the deceased.

In fact, the real origin of the Cold Food Festival is derived from the ancient system of drilling wood and seeking new fire. Ancient people due to the different seasons, with different trees drilling fire, there is a change of season to change the custom of fire. And every time after changing the fire, it was necessary to get a new fire. Before the new fire arrived, people were forbidden to make fire. This was an important event at that time. The Zhou Rites - Autumn Officials - SiXuan's: "In the middle of spring, the wooden pole was used to repair the fire ban in the country." It can be seen that at that time was shaking the wooden blade, walking on the street, ordering to prohibit fire. This SiXuan's, that is, a small official in charge of taking fire. At the time of the fire ban, people prepare some cold food for consumption, which slowly became a fixed custom. Later, it was connected with the legend of Jie Zi Tui, and became the Cold Food Festival, which lasted for a month. After all, this is not conducive to health, and later shorten the date, from seven days, three days gradually changed to one day, after the Tang will be integrated into the Qingming Festival.

Customs of the Cold Food Festival include visiting graves, traveling, fighting chickens, swinging, playing carpets, and pulling hooks (tug-of-war), etc. Among them, the custom of visiting graves is a very important one. Among them, the custom of visiting graves is very old. There are graves must be tomb sacrifice, and later, because of the integration with the custom of invoking the soul and renewing the spirit in March, it was gradually set in the cold food on the sacrifice. The Tang Book: "Kaiyuan twenty years Royal Decree, cold food on the tomb," Rites of the scriptures "no text. In recent times, it has been passed down, soaked in custom, and it is appropriate to allow the same worship and sweeping rituals on the tomb." Song Zhuang Jiyu "Chicken Ribs" Volume 1: "Cold food on the grave, also does not set incense. Paper money was hung on the tombs. Those who go to their hometowns and villages climb up the hill to look for sacrifices. The paper is cracked in the air, which is called breaking money. And the capital of the four sides of the cause of worship sweep, then set up wine compilation (zhuan, meals), with the family spring tour."

Jing Chu chronicle: "(cold food) cockfighting, skeleton chicken (eggs), cockfighting." Can be seen in the Southern Dynasties, there are fighting chickens and fighting eggs of the play. Cockfighting today, fighting eggs are mostly children in the countryside to hit each other as a game of eggs. In ancient times, used as a collision fighting eggs are dyed, carved (1ou, carving) over, very beautiful. Painting eggs. The custom of skeletonizing eggs originated from "carving eggs" recorded in "Guanzi". Undoubtedly, it is from the ancient egg-eating for fertility witchcraft development, into the cold food festival. Today, there is also the custom of eating eggs at Qingming (such as the aforementioned "Zifu"). Cold food to play Qiu Gan, according to the "Arts and Letters Classes Gathering" in the record, the northern mountain Rong in the cold food day to play swing. But I am afraid this is only a legend. Liu Xiang's Bie Lu records that the playing of qiuqian was done in the spring, not necessarily on the cold eclipse. And beat the carpet, Wang Jian "Palace Lyrics": "cold eclipse palace people step beat the carpet." The play of pulling the hook and beating the carpet was also not necessarily held at the cold eclipse.

Since the Qingming festival falls on the third day of the cold eclipse, later generations gradually moved the custom of cold eclipse to Qingming as time moved on. After the Song Dynasty, the custom of sweeping graves on the third day of the cold eclipse was moved to Qingming. The custom of spring excursions and swinging on swings were also held only during Qingming. The Qingming Festival was then elevated from a mere agricultural festival to a major festival, and the influence of the Cold Food Festival disappeared. However, there are a number of ways in which the custom of eating cold food has been passed down and preserved in the Qingming Festival.

Why eat green dumplings

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Shanghai people have the custom of eating green dumplings before and after the Qingming Festival, which can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. According to the "Zhou Rites", there was a "mid-spring to Muduo fire ban in the country," the regulations, so the people turned off the cooking, "cold food for three days". In the cold food period, that is, one or two days before Weiming, but also specific for the "cold day festival".

Anciently, the traditional food for the Cold Food Festival was glutinous rice cheese, wheat cheese, almond cheese, which could be made beforehand for the Cold Food Festival to feed the hungry without having to raise the fire for cooking.

Traditional food in the cold day festival there is a "green fine rice", according to the "trivial record" records: "Shu into the cold food day, picking Yang Tung leaves, fine holly dyed rice, the color green and light." Ming dynasty "seven repair class haggard" also said: "the ancients cold food pick Yang Tong leaves, dyeing rice green color to sacrifice, capital Yang gas also, this change for the green and white dumplings, is the meaning of this also". Qing Dynasty "Qing Jia Records" on the green dumplings have a clearer explanation: "the market sells green dumplings cooked lotus root, for the sacrificial products, can be eaten cold".

Nowadays, some of the green dumplings are made of green wormwood, some are made of wheatgrass juice and glutinous rice flour pounded and then stuffed with bean paste, which has been passed down for more than a hundred years, and is still an old face. People use it to sweep tombs and pay homage to ancestors, but more is in season to taste the new, the green dumplings as a sacrificial function is increasingly diluted. Therefore, some of the stores selling green dumplings insight to this point, some years ago there were a variety of sweet and salty fillings of the green dumplings, such as lard rose green dumplings, black Yang pastry green dumplings, golden ear fresh meat green dumplings, etc., but not for long, these originally favored green dumplings, but also the end of the disease, really puzzling people.

Methods of commemoration

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There are many forms of commemorating ancestors on Qingming Festival:

Tomb-sweeping is one of the earliest customs of Qingming Festival, which continues to this day, and has been simplified gradually with the progress of the society. On the day of tomb-sweeping, children and grandchildren first trim and clean up the weeds in and around the graves of their ancestors, and then make offerings of food and flowers. As cremation has become more and more common, the custom of grave sweeping is gradually being replaced by visits to the columbarium to pay respects to the deceased. The Chinese in Singapore also set up a shrine for the dead in temples, and temples have thus become a place for ancestor worship on Ching Ming Day. Some people also pay homage to their ancestors at home on Ching Ming Day. On Ching Ming Day, one may visit the gravesites of the ancestors, places where the ashes are placed or temples to bow in silence before the spirit tablets.

No matter what form of remembrance it takes, the most basic ritual of the Ching Ming Festival is to go to the gravesite, the place where the ashes are placed or the shrine to remember the ancestors. To make the ceremony more meaningful, we should let the younger generation of family members know about the past struggles of their ancestors.

With the development of the times, people's mindset is gradually changing, and more and more people are adopting new forms of tree, flower and net ceremonies to pay tribute to the deceased and express their grief, focusing more and more on the true emotions of the heart.

All over the Qingming

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Shanxi:

The Ming Festival is the grandest festival of ancestor worship in spring, and is customarily known as the "Ghost Festival".

Shanxi old "Ching Ming fine rain urge people sad, desert (Tufan) head of wildflowers, hand-end offerings shoulder spade, all for the first grave on the earth to" ballad, vividly summarizes the mood of the people and the characteristics of the grave sweeping.

Spring, the folk more repair houses, in order to prevent the summer rain leakage. Associated with the dead by the living, the graves in the fields are often collapsed and lowered after wind and rain. Qingming season on the graves, the most important feature is to shovel out the grave weeds, with new soil to raise the mound reinforced, customarily known as refurbishment of the yin house, showing the children and grandchildren of the ancestors of the mourning.

In the southwestern part of the mountain, people, rich and poor, both men and women are present at the graves, indicating that all descendants are remembering their ancestors. In the northern part of the country, visiting the graves is mostly a men's affair, and women generally do not visit the graves. Datong, Pingyao and other places, is the evening of the day, the old custom of women to cry loudly outside the gates, "the whole village even a piece of grief, into the ears are sad".

The Qingming Festival graves, most places in southwestern Shanxi, not burning incense, not paper, money and other things to hang the graves, there is a "Qingming grave a piece of white," said. The reason is that the cold food festival customary fire ban, and the Qingming Festival in the cold food festival period. Most places in northwestern Shanxi, however, to burn all the money and other things, the reason is that not burned to the end of the transfer of the hands of the ancestors. Dazhong and other places and customary daytime graves, and at night in the home to burn medieval money medieval silk.

Northwest Jin Hequ and other places, the old custom of going to the grave with wine and food, sacrificed after the ancestors, will be in the graveyard food and drink, meaning that with the ancestors *** drink *** food. Jinnan Wenxi and other places, the graves should be embedded with jujube cake rolled around on the mound, the legend is that the dead old man scratching. Jinzhong Jiexiu and other places, the grave offerings for the cake, shaped like a coiled snake. After returning home, the cake will be placed in the yard, blow dry before eating. The old people talk about can cure the disease, the source of the cover out of the cold food ban on fire.

Jinnan region after the grave, go home to pull some wheat seedlings, and inserted in the door of pine branches and cypress leaves or willow to ward off evil spirits. Jinbei region more inserted willow. There are also places where some willows are inserted on the graves.

Ching Ming Festival, southern Jin folk to steam a large steamed bun, walnuts, jujubes, beans and so on, known as Zifu. Taking the meaning of children and grandchildren, all depending on the blessing of the ancestors. Families also do black bean cold noodles, cut thin pieces of soup and eat. Shoveling lemon grass, rubbing and pulling on the bed mat, known as drive scorpion. In Southeast China, everyone puts willow branches and leaves on their heads. Women have to use gold coloring (headdress) to stick on their temples. In the north of Jin, it is customary to produce black bean sprouts and eat them with cornbread stuffed with black bean sprouts. Northwestern Jinbei region is concerned with the use of millet grinding flour for cakes, commonly known as "show yellow", Lvliang region in the day after the Qingming Festival, to pick up the son-in-law, commonly known as "fresh fire".

Ching Ming Festival, the province's prevalence of "playing the swing". Time to pay attention to the first three days, after four days. After the sun came out of the mountains to start, girls, daughters-in-law are to show their style. After the sun goes down, the activity must stop. Legend has it that around the time of Ching Ming, all the ghosts have to come out at night to play the swing, and people do not dare to compete with the ghosts. Though absurd, it reflects the traditional psychology of respecting the dead and hoping that deceased loved ones can have fun with the living.

Ching Ming Festival, the province is also prevalent kite flying. In the fields and streets, happy children can be seen everywhere, holding a long line running competition.

Ching Ming Festival, folk taboo to make the needle, taboo laundry, most areas of the women's taboo walking. Before evening, a gray line should be sprinkled in front of the gate, which is said to stop ghosts from entering the house.

The coexistence of grief and joy, respect and fear is the most important feature of the folk activities of the Qingming Festival.

Before and after the Qingming Festival, there is also the "March 3" festival.

March 3, the ancient name of the Festival. In ancient times, the first half of March on the sixth day of the "on the sixth", also known as "three Si". After the Three Kingdoms Wei, the festival is fixed on the third day of March, has been inherited.

The Houhan Book - rituals on the record, "is the month on the Si, the government and the people are clean in the East Stream on the water, the day to wash and purify, to go to the phlegm of the hostile, for the big clean. Later, it became every March 3, people all go to the water's edge to play and drink the custom. Shanxi has the old "March 3 weather new, Fen River on both sides of the beautiful people" said.

March 3, folk more trekking activities. Women in the southern part of the Jinnan region use wicker to whip the walls of their bedrooms, which is called "wrestling scorpions". After the fight, and then stick a "Guanyin willow charm", used to ban scorpions. In the northern part of the country, it is customary to prohibit scorpions on the Grain Rain Festival. The walls of every house are plastered with "Guyu Scorpion Prohibition Stickers", and the God of Stove is plastered with a painting of a rooster eating a scorpion called "Guyu Chicken". The stickers and paintings are accompanied by a proverb (also known as an incantation) that prohibits scorpions: "I am a god in the sky, and I come down to the world to protect all the people, and I will definitely take the scorpion spirits on the day of the rainy season. South Dipper six Lang, North Dipper seven stars, Tai Shang Laojun urgent order!" And so on.

March 3, the folk also evolved into the activities of God. The northern part of the ritual "Zhenwu God" and "Queen Mother of the West" two kinds of ritual queen mother called "Peach Club". In the southern region, most of the sacrifices are to "Hua Tuo". Xiangfen custom to Hua Tuo Temple incense, each person to offer a rooster, and use a needle to prick the crown of the blood to sacrifice, commonly known as "a thousand chickens will be".

March 3, women in southeastern Jin used to dig into the wild wild vegetables, processed and eaten, known as Chopper. Northwest Jin region in the rainy season before and after picking wild vegetables to eat. Also use elm vegetables and rice flour as bait, steamed noodles into blocks, known as "elm money puppet". Eat up soft and delicious.

March 3, northern Jin folk customary vinegar.

Taiwan:

China is a vast country with different climates in the north and south, so the Ching Ming Festival varies from place to place, from the second day of February to the third day of March. In Taiwan, the Ching Ming Festival is the 105th day counting from the winter solstice of the previous year, while the Ching Ming Festival of Zhangzhou nationals in Taiwan falls on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Taiwan's Ching Ming Festival customs are similar to those in southern Fujian, Taiwan Hakka people's ancestor sweeping time begins after the Lantern Festival, the date is set by each family, until the Ching Ming.

Taiwanese people's tomb-sweeping customs, generally can be divided into two kinds: one is a general sweeping, the ceremony and the sacrifice of things relatively simple, mostly only for some rice cakes, kuey teow and cakes; the second is the repair of the ancestral tomb, the rituals are quite grand, for the offering of sacrifices generally include a variety of offerings of gifts of twelve kinds of vegetables and kuey teow, cakes, and so on. When sweeping the graves, it is necessary to dedicate "tomb paper" (five-color paper cut into rectangles) around the graves, each piece of paper is pressed with a small stone, and a pile of it must be placed on the tombstone. This ceremony is commonly known as "hanging paper," and it is an offering of money to the ancestors. If the tomb is being repaired, the whole family will gather around the grave to eat red eggs, the shells of which will be scattered on the grave, containing the auspicious meaning of metabolism and continuity of life. While sweeping the graves, the family also pays homage to the land lord (a small stone tablet), who has stood by for a long time to guard the graves and the spirits of the ancestors, as a gesture of sympathy on the one hand, and as a sign of gratitude and retribution on the other. There is also a special custom in Taiwan that if there is a happy event in the family during the year, the grave has to be refurbished when sweeping the grave, and a small red lamp (oil lamp) has to be prepared and lit in front of the grave, and then brought home when returning home, which is said to attract more joy and good luck.

In the rural areas of Taiwan in the past, after sweeping the graves, a group of children would come to beg for kuey teow, and the more people that came, the more prosperous the family would become, and the masters would be happy to give "fa kuey teow" or money to the children.

After the reduction of cemeteries in Taiwan and the implementation of columbarium, many people put the urn on the columbarium, every Ching Ming to the columbarium to pay homage, but also the same role in the worship of ancestors. Due to the gradual change in people's attitudes, the rituals of visiting ancestral tombs have been omitted.

Zhoushan:

Sweeping the tomb Zhoushan people commonly known as the tomb, to the grave to pay tribute to the ancestors. When paying homage, out of respect for the memory of the ancestors, people are first cut weeds, repairing the mausoleum, moving the soil to cultivate the grave, so it is called sweeping the tomb. After that, they light incense and burn candles, set up offerings such as snails, green cakes, cakes, dishes, etc. The old-fashioned parents lead the whole family to kneel down and kowtow, while the new-fashioned ones perform a bowing ceremony. After the ceremony, the top of the grave inserted bamboo streamers, burning paper money and money, to the children onlookers on the grave to share "mochi money" (mochi that is, the green cake, the shape of which has a round, there are also diamond-shaped). After visiting the graves, they go home and make "Ching-ming soup and rice".

It is worth mentioning here: the old Dinghai grave offerings have a characteristic, many dishes are cold dishes and cold vegetables, and Qingming special snacks - green cake, strip cake can be eaten in the cold, which can be seen, although the custom of the Cold Food Festival has long been in decline, but it is the spirit of the spirit is still preserved in the Qingming food customs, never fading.

In addition, the old Dinghai folk there is a custom, Qingming Festival on this day, the outskirts of the city and fishing villages and rural residents of the women's head inserted cauliflower, artemisia, the door inserted willows, the proverbial cloud: "Qingming wear flowers, in the next life, there is a mother; Qingming wear branches of the green, in the next life, there is a loved one; Qingming inserted willow, in the next life, there is a maternal uncle."

Treading green, also known as spring tour, explore spring, spring. Qingming season, the sky is clear, the wind and smooth, since ancient times, people like to take advantage of the bright spring time, go to the countryside for a swim. Tomb sweeper rituals have been completed, but also tend to choose the nursery, sit and do not return, by the simple sacrificial activities evolved into the same time to visit the spring to visit the victory of the trekking. The late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period, the old Dinghai also popular custom of spring tour. Whenever the Qingming Festival, everything is revived, grass and trees return to the green, the fields a brilliant fragrance. Private schools and schools in the urban area have to take spring vacation for a few days, so that students can follow their parents to the countryside to go to the grave and spring tour. In addition, the old Dinghai also has the custom of flying kites in spring. Kite flying, Zhoushan people commonly known as flying paper harriers. Whenever the spring breeze and warm moments, in the green fields, in the city open area, there are always a lot of people joyfully enjoy the fun of flying paper harriers. Those harriers fluttering in the light wind, the most is the valves harrier, followed by the butterfly harrier, eagle harrier, the most conspicuous is the centipede harrier, long in the sky to swim around, colorful, staggered, very interesting to see. It is said to be a very meaningful cultural and recreational activities, it can exercise the body, temperament, and can enjoy the beautiful spring scenery.

The origin of Qingming Festival

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The Qingming Festival is a festival related to funeral rites and customs. It is reported that in ancient times, "the tomb but not the grave", that is to say, only hit the grave pit, not to build a mound, so the festival is not seen in the records. Later on, the tomb and the grave, the custom of cleaning will have a basis. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the tomb festival has become an indispensable ritual and customary activities.

The Book of Han.

The Book of Han. In terms of Chinese ancestor worship and the development of the sense of kinship, Yan Yan Nian's action is reasonable. Therefore, later generations did not include the ancient norms of the tomb sacrifice into the five rituals: "the common people's homes, it is appropriate to allow the tomb, into the five rituals, forever as a regular pattern." With this official recognition, the style of tomb worship was bound to flourish.

The Qingming Festival is a festival to honor ancestors. The main commemorative ritual is to sweep the graves, which is a concrete expression of the prudence of the end of the day, the family and the family and the filial piety, based on the above significance, the Qingming Festival has become an important festival of the Chinese people.

The Qingming Festival falls on the 106th day after the winter solstice, at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-sweeping activities usually take place 10 days before or 10 days after the Ching Ming Festival. Some people of this origin have tomb-sweeping activities for as long as a month.

The Qingming Festival is both a festival and a holiday.

From a festival point of view, it is one of the 24 solar terms. In terms of festivals, it is a day of ancestor worship. Once Qingming arrives, spring returns to the earth, the spirit is refreshed, and the year's labor begins from now on, spring plowing and spring planting, and begins to be busy. Worshipping ancestors and remembering the ancestors also take place at the same time. Treading Green Festival, Tomb Sweeping Festival and Smart Festival are all aliases of Qingming Festival. Ancestor worship activities of the Chinese people often take place in the countryside, and people combine tomb-sweeping and picnicking to cultivate their sentiments and promote their physical and mental health. Dream of the Red Chamber" in the Qingming activities of the Jia family attaches great importance to picking grass, kite flying, swinging as an important part of the activities, fully embodies the Qingming activities in the folklore of an important position. To this day, in the Martyrs' Cemetery in memory of the revolutionary martyrs has added a lot of content for the Qingming Festival, in the sacrifice of Yanhuang two ancestors at the same time, mourning their ancestors, remember the great achievements of the martyrs, in today's Qingming activities are more very important meaning.