Tomb-Sweeping Day Tomb-Sweeping Day's Origin Composition 255 Words

The custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves in front of graves originated very early in China. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, people attached great importance to tombs. Mencius and Qi people in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period also mentioned a ridiculed Qi person who often went to the tomb of Dongguo to beg for sacrifices, which shows that the custom of sweeping graves during the Warring States Period was very popular. When I arrived in Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, I designated cold food sweeping the grave as one of the "five rituals". Therefore, whenever Tomb-Sweeping Day comes, "the fields and roads are crowded with scholars and women, and the servants and beggars of soap merchants get their parents' graves." (Liu Zongyuan's Book with Xu Jingzhao) Grave sweeping has become an important social custom.