Which dynasty did the Qingming Festival begin?

The traditional Chinese Qingming Festival began in the Zhou Dynasty, with a history of more than 2,500 years.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, and Ancestor Sacrifice Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the belief in ancestors and the rituals of spring festival in the ancient times, and it is the grandest and most important festival of ancestor worship for the Chinese nation. The Qingming Festival has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival and a traditional festival. Sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors as well as trekking are the two main themes of the Qingming Festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and continue to be celebrated to this day.

The Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is a solemn festival for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, as well as a festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and enjoying spring. Doo refers to B (or the sun's yellow longitude reaches 15 °) for the Qingming Festival, the cross-section time in the annual calendar around April 5 or so. At this time of year, the anger is strong, everything "spit out the old and the new", the earth presents the image of spring and the landscape, it is the countryside trekking spring tour and the line of good time for the Qing Tomb Sacrifice. Qingming ancestor festival period is very long, there are 10 days before and after Qingming 8 days before and after Qingming 10 days before and after the two say, this nearly 20 days are within the Qingming ancestor festival period.

Customs of Qingming in Guangdong

In Guangdong, sweeping graves at Qingming is called sweeping the mountain, worshipping the mountain, and worshipping Qing. During the Qingming Festival, the Guangdong area has already presented the image of spring and scenery, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship, trekking is the main rituals and customs of the Guangdong people for the festival theme; because of the advantage of taking advantage of the convenience, after worshiping the mountain, families of young and old are also in the countryside and the wild trekking to play a little bit. Cantonese people attach great importance to ancestral temples and ancestors, and the worship of ancestral temples, ancestral halls and ancestral tombs has always been regarded as a top priority.

Every Ching Ming, whether overseas, or not far from home, are to rush back to their hometowns, with their parents and relatives to worship ancestors, Ching Ming has become a family reunion of the day of the party. In Guangdong, there is the custom of "traveling to Qingming" and "trekking in the green". The difference between "Hsing Ching" and "Treading Green" is that while "Treading Green" is an excursion to get closer to nature, "Hsing Ching" is a family or a group of people agreeing on a time to go sweeping the mountains together.

When they visit the mountain every year, they first remove the weeds around their ancestors' graves, then tie paper, and set up offerings such as golden pigs, chickens, geese, fish and meat, fresh fruits and pastries, and liquor to pay homage to their ancestors. After completing the worship ceremony, they will cut the roasted pig with fresh fruits and refreshments and have a picnic or go home to have a feast. Qingming Festival in Guangdong is a grand and grand ancestral festival, some places since ancient times, there will be held in Qingming, eat Qingming feast custom, the whole clan of men, women and children to participate in, the scene is grand, lively and extraordinary.