What are the customs of the Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival in our country is considered a more traditional holiday, whether southerners or northerners are more important, is to commemorate the ancestors, the family legacy of a symbol of endless. Below I have organized a few Qingming Festival customs, take a look.

1, swinging

This is China's ancient Qingming Festival customs. Swinging, meaning migrating by the leather rope. Its history is very ancient, the earliest called the thousand autumn, after in order to avoid taboo, changed to swing. Ancient swing with tree branches for the frame, and then bolted on the ribbon made. Later gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Playing swing not only can improve health, but also can cultivate the spirit of bravery, and is still loved by people, especially children.

2, trekking

Ching Ming time, it is the return of spring, people are due to take advantage of the convenience of sweeping the graves of young and old in the mountains and countryside between the wild play some, go home and folded a few branches of leaf buds blossomed willow branches to wear on the head, and the joy of the happy. There are also people deliberately during the Qingming Festival to the nature to appreciate and appreciate the vibrant spring scenery, hiking in the countryside, a Lyric in the harsh winter since the depression of the chest, this kind of trekking is also known as the spring tour, the ancient called the spring, searching for spring. The meaning of the foot is to step on the grass, playing in the countryside, viewing the spring colors.

3, tree planting

Before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines, the spring sun shines, spring rain sprinkles, planting saplings with a high survival rate, fast growth. Therefore, since ancient times, China has the Qingming tree planting habit. Some people also call the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day". Tree-planting custom has been handed down to the present day. 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress stipulated that every year on March 12 for China's Tree Planting Day. This is to mobilize the people of all nationalities to actively carry out activities to green the motherland, has a very important significance.

4, kite flying

It is also a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. Every Qingming Festival, people not only fly during the day, but also at night. At night, under the kite or on the wind steady pull line hangs a string of small colorful lanterns, like twinkling stars, known as the "God lamp". In the past, some people put the kite on the blue sky, then cut the line, let the wind send them to the end of the world, it is said that this can get rid of diseases and bring good luck to themselves.

5, tomb sweeping

Tomb sweeping is the most important custom of the Qingming Festival, Qingming Tomb Sweeping is a thing after the Qin Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty when it began to prevail, and has been handed down to the present. Tomb-sweeping on the Qingming Festival is called "thinking about the time of respect" for ancestors, and it is the biggest ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping day in China. When sweeping graves, people usually bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food at the graves of their loved ones, put fresh soil on the graves, and repair the graves.

Of course, there are more old traditions, as well as the familiar ancient soccer game of cuju; there is also willow-planting, and in the past there were traditional customs such as cockfighting, willow-shooting, and hook-drawing and other activities, which are now less widely circulated and will not be introduced one by one.