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What kind of tradition of burning incense to ancestors on Qingming Festival?

From ancient times to the present, the folk have Qingming Festival tomb sweeping incense ancestral customs, has now become a traditional folk festival in China, Qingming Festival ancestor worship, is a grand folklore activities, due to different cultural practices around the different forms of ancestor worship are also different. From the past to the present, the folk have a careful tradition, every festival will not forget to worship ancestors, ancestor worship folk custom has been in the long river of history along thousands of years, is a profound meaning of an ancient custom. Whenever the Qingming Festival ancestor worship, every family should prepare tribute, the tribute of the sacrifice mainly includes three animals and rice, three tea and five wine, etc., and three incense sticks should be burned during the worship, and after kowtowing, we pray for a good harvest and blessing of peace. Lastly is the burning of paper, commonly known as "send money grain", the tradition is that the money given to the use of ancestors who are not alive, so that they will bless the children and grandchildren of the next generation to have a smooth sailing, Ching Ming Festival incense burning ancestor also has to pay attention to. Ching Ming Festival ancestor worship, through the incense to express the worship of their ancestors, through the incense to thank the ancestors of the grace, in order to inherit our traditional civilization, but also in this way to educate future generations, do not forget the root of the Chinese civilization, from ancient times to the present day people regard the incense as the root of our therefore is the most important, the incense is also the root of our civilization. Incense is also a cultural ritual used by generations of ancestors to awaken the identity of the family and the country. It is through the transmission of incense from ten thousand families that the Chinese civilization has been passed on to the present day, and it is only as a dot of stars that creates the splendid and incomparable spiritual world of the Chinese civilization and the national culture. From ancient times to the present, we are with the help of incense to pass our profound and far-reaching national culture, with incense to pass our fundamental, Qingming Festival incense burning ancestor, on the incense, but the expression of our heart and spirit, on the incense also does not represent the superstitious legend, not that there are any demons and unclean things, but the Chinese people on the beliefs made by the unique way of expression, the continuation of the incense. But the Chinese people's belief in the unique way of expression, the continuation of the inheritance of incense, the Chinese civilization is so in this generation of incense to be passed down, so the Qingming Festival incense burning ancestor is also the Chinese nation's spiritual wealth made by the best way to carry forward.