The difference between the origin of Qingming and traditional customs

1. Origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day: The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day was a very important solar term from the beginning. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting, so there is a saying that "melons and beans are planted before and after Qingming Festival".

3. The agricultural proverb "Planting trees is never clear".

4. Later, because the days of Qingming and cold food were close, cold food was the day when people banned fire from sweeping graves. Gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name for Qingming and also became a custom in Qingming period. Tomb-Sweeping Day, no fireworks, only cold food.

5. Customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day: (1) As a festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day is different from pure solar terms.

6. Solar terms are signs of phenological changes and seasonal order in China, while festivals contain certain customs and activities and certain commemorative significance.

7.(2) Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

8. Sweeping graves is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead.

9. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

10.(3) According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some fresh branches and insert them in front of the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating the food.

1 1. The poem Qingming by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: "It rains in succession during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

12. Where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.

13. "Write about the special atmosphere in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

14.(4) Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called an outing festival. According to the solar calendar, April 4th to 6th every year is a season of bright spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing. Therefore, the ancients had the custom of clearing the sky and descending to the earth and carrying out a series of sports activities.

15. Until today, the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and mourning for dead relatives is still very popular in Tomb-Sweeping Day.