What are the origins and customs of the Qingming Festival? Qingming Festival related to the introduction

1, the origin of the Qingming Festival: According to legend, it began in ancient times, the emperor and generals and ministers of the tomb ceremony, and then the folk also follow suit, on this day to pay homage to their ancestors and sweep the tomb, which has been inherited through the generations and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival were two different festivals, but in the Tang Dynasty, the day of tomb-sweeping was designated as the Cold Food Festival. The correct day for the Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, around the time of the Qingming Festival, and because of the proximity of the two days, the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival were combined into one day.

2, Qingming Festival customs:

(1) swing

Swinging is a traditional custom in the Qingming Festival, swinging the history of ancient, the earliest time to swing the name of the swing is called Qianqiu, and later to avoid taboos before becoming a swing.

(2) trekking

Ching Ming time, it is the spring back to the earth, people are due to take advantage of the convenience of sweeping graves, but also a family of young and old in the mountains and countryside between the wild play some, go home by hand to fold a few branches of leaf buds blossoming willow branches to wear on the head, and its joyful and 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, looking for spring. The meaning of the foot is to step on the grass, playing in the countryside, viewing the spring color.

(3) tree planting

Before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines, the 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". The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day.

(4) Kite Flying

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

(5) Cuju

Cuju is a kind of leather ball, the skin of which is made of leather and the inside of which is stuffed tightly with hair. Cuju is to kick the ball with the foot. It is a favorite game in ancient times during the Qingming Festival. It is said to have been invented by the Yellow Emperor, and its original purpose was to train warriors. Playing polo is also one of the plays of the Dragon Boat Festival. In front of the Baiyun Guan in Beijing, there is also the ceremony of mass horseback riding and hitting the ball. Polo was also played around the Temple of Heaven in the Qing Dynasty until it disappeared after the middle of the Qing Dynasty. In recent years, the city of Xi'an has seen the emergence of antique polo, so that this ancient sport in the extinction of many years after the reappearance of the Chinese land.

(6) Tomb-sweeping

Tomb-sweeping is the most important custom of the Qingming Festival, and it is a matter of the Qin Dynasty, and it began to be popular in the Tang Dynasty, and has been passed down to the present day. Tomb-sweeping at Ching Ming is the biggest ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping day in China, which is called "thinking about the honor of the time" for ancestors. It is the biggest day of ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping in China. When sweeping tombs, people usually bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to their relatives in front of their tombs, and put new soil on the graves, repair the graves, and so on.