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What holiday in China is similar to Thanksgiving?

In fact, China also has its own Thanksgiving Day, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and Double Ninth Festival.

A recent survey in Sina.com shows that 6 1.43% of netizens think that Tomb-Sweeping Day should be Thanksgiving Day in China. In fact, from urban to rural, from coastal to inland, China has the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day sweeping graves. This is mainly gratitude, admiration and commemoration for ancestors, sages and martyrs; Mourning and remembering old friends can make people think about the value of life and the meaning of death.

Our ancestors also knew how to attach importance to grateful plots. "Filial piety is the only important thing." This famous saying in "The Book of Filial Piety" can be understood as: rich in skins, influenced by parents. Parents have great goodwill in nurturing, nurturing, teaching and caring for their children, so they should be filial to their parents-filial to life, filial to illness, filial to death, and filial to Qingming.

The Double Ninth Festival is on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. The homonym of "99" is "99", which means a long time ago. This festival also worships ancestors and carries out activities to respect the elderly. In these festivals, everyone should learn to be grateful, know how to be grateful, do their best to their parents and elders, and miss them after death. On the Double Ninth Festival, it is a feeling of gratitude to send blessings to parents, take them to dinner together, or accompany them to travel.