What flower represents Qingming Festival

Tung flower represents the Qingming Festival.

Tung blossom is the flower of the Qingming festival, and the political ceremonies, feasts and spring tours, and social customs such as sacrifices and remembrances constitute the cultural connotation of the imagery of the tung blossom. Tung blossoms bloom at the time of Qingming, which is an important symbol of spring and summer, reflecting the season's timing and landscape characteristics; Qingming is both a festival and a holiday in China.

The political rituals and social folklore of the Qingming Festival are also reflected in the imagery of the tung flower. In addition to its "natural attributes", the tung flower also has its "social attributes". In the middle Tang Dynasty, Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi's chants and songs elevated the character of tung blossom and gave it a metaphorical meaning; in the Tang and Song Dynasties, "tung blossom phoenix" was widely recorded, and "tung blossom phoenix" was given a metaphorical meaning of auspiciousness and love.

Cultural connotation of Qingming Festival:

The Qingming Festival is the most solemn and grand festival of the Chinese nation, which belongs to a kind of cultural and traditional festival of honoring the ancestors and pursuing the distant past. Qingming Festival cohesion of the national spirit, inherited the sacrificial culture of the Chinese civilization, express people respect their ancestors and ancestors, following the moral sentiment of the story. Qingming Festival has a long history, originating from early human ancestor beliefs and spring rituals.

According to the results of modern anthropological and archaeological research, the two most primitive beliefs of mankind are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. According to archaeological excavations, the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, has discovered a 10,000-year-old tomb, which is the earliest confirmed burial in China, indicating that the ancient ancestors already had a clear and conscious concept of burial behavior and rituals 10,000 years ago.