Weifang Qingming Festival customs

1, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship

The Qingming Festival is the Chinese nation's spring festival, and the spring festival corresponds to the Chrysanthemum Festival of the autumn festival. Qingming tomb sweeping, that is, "tomb sacrifice", said the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect", the custom has a long history. As a festival, the Qingming Festival is mainly dedicated to ancestors, expressing the filial piety of the worshippers and their nostalgia for the ancestors, and is a cultural and traditional festival to honor the ancestors and pay careful attention to the end of life and the distant future. The Qingming Festival was originally a "Festival of Ancestor Sacrifice", and was named "Ghost Festival" in the later development and evolution of the festival. In ancient times, people sacrificed to their ancestors in order to express filial piety and gratitude for tracing the beginning of their lives, and they did not call the festival of sacrificing to one's own ancestors the Ghost Festival. The Qingming Festival is held around the time of Qingming and varies from place to place. The Qingming festival can be divided into tomb festival and ancestral hall festival according to the different places of worship.

2, trekking

Ching Ming time, it is the return of spring, people are due to take advantage of the convenience of sweeping the graves of young and old in the mountains and countryside between the wild fun, go home and folded a few branches of leaf buds blossomed willow branches to wear on the head, and the joy of it all. 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 colors.

3, willow

The Qingming Festival is the time of the willow sprouting green, folk have folded willow, willow, willow custom. When people step on the green hand folded a few branches of willow, can be held in the hands to play, can also be woven into a hat to wear on the head, can also be taken home to insert in the lintel, eaves.

4, play

The Qingming Festival, in addition to the above tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship, the custom of stepping on the willow, there are a lot of fun customs, for thousands of years, doubly popular, such as the continuation of the hook, kite-flying and swinging, etc., but also had a prevalent, but now no longer see the shooting willow and Cuju

5, hook

The hook

The "hook"

The "hook"

The "hook"

The "hook" is the most important part of the "willow". The ancient name of "pulling the hook" is actually a modern tug-of-war. It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Chu, in order to attack the state of Wu, used the sport of pulling hooks to enhance the people's physical fitness. It is mainly a hemp rope, the two ends are divided into many small rope, the game, to a large flag as a boundary, a command, both sides of the respective force pull rope, drums and music, both sides of the cheering and shouting, lively and extraordinary.