A brief introduction to the origin and customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called outing festival, outing festival, March festival and ancestor worship festival.

It is a grand traditional Spring Festival of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival that pursues the future with caution, worships ancestors and promotes filial piety. There are many customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Due to different regional cultures, the contents or details of customs are also different. Although local customs are different, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and hiking are the same basic customs and themes.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a solemn festival to pay homage to ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, travel and enjoy the fun of spring. Going to the grave to worship the ancestors is to remember the ancestors, and it is also the inheritance of family filial piety. Because the ancients paid attention to "filial piety first", future generations should be filial to their ancestors, and burning paper to sweep the grave is the performance of filial piety to their ancestors.

There is a folk proverb: "It rains in March during the Qingming Festival, and every family goes to their ancestral graves". Going to the grave is to worship their ancestors. It is disrespectful to our ancestors if we go to the ancestral grave to bring outsiders. Because outsiders are not members of their own families, there is no way to reflect the cohesion of the family and the inheritance of filial piety, which is not in line with tradition. Moreover, outsiders have no awe of their ancestors and regard going to the grave as a ritual.