What are the characteristics of the Qingming Festival

In addition to trekking and tomb-sweeping, the Qingming Festival has absorbed a series of customary sports activities, such as swinging, cuju, playing polo and willow-planting, in its historical development.

The festival tradition of sweeping graves and paying homage to ancestors on Qingming Day has been going on since ancient times, that is, in today's society, people still have the custom of sweeping graves and paying homage to their ancestors before and after Qingming Day: shoveling out weeds, placing offerings, offering incense and prayers in front of the graves, burning paper money and gold ingots, etc., or simply presenting a bouquet of flowers, in order to send remembrance of their ancestors.

The Qingming Festival is the Chinese nation for thousands of years left behind a fine tradition, 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 sense of identity. Qingming Festival in the development of history carries a rich cultural connotation, due to the different regional cultures across the country and there are differences in the content or details of the custom, although the festival activities are not the same, but sweeping tombs and ancestors, trekking excursions is *** with the basic rituals and themes.