What is the origin and culture of Qingming Festival?

Origin 1:

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang finally won the world by defeating the overlord. When Liu Bang returned to his hometown, he wanted to pay homage to his parents' graves, but he was unable to find his parents' graves because of the years of war, which had made one of the graves overgrown with weeds.

Liu Bang was very sad, although his subordinates also helped him to go through all the tombstones, but still could not find his parents' graves until dusk. Finally, Liu Bang took out the paper from his sleeve, tore it into many small pieces, pinched it tightly in his hand, and then prayed to the heavens, saying, "My parents are alive in heaven, I will take these pieces of paper and throw them into the air, and if the pieces of paper fall in a place where the wind does not move them, it is the graves of my parents."

After Liu Bang threw the pieces of paper into the air, a piece of paper fell on a tomb, no matter how the wind blew not to blow, Liu Bang ran over to take a closer look at the fuzzy tombstone, and saw his parents' names engraved on it. Later, the people, like Liu Bang, went to their ancestors' graves every year on the Ching Ming Festival, and used small pieces of earth to press a few pieces of paper on the graves to show that the graves were cleaned by people.

Origin 2:

Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er, went into exile to escape persecution, and on the way to exile, in an uninhabited place, he was so tired and hungry that he could no longer stand up. The ministers searched for half a day and could not find anything to eat, when everyone was very anxious, the ministers jiezi push to a secluded place, cut off a piece of meat from his own thigh, and boiled a bowl of broth for the duke to drink, and Chong Er gradually regained his spirit, and when Chong Er realized that the meat was cut off by jiezi push his own leg, he shed tears.

Nineteen years later, Chong Er became the king of the country, the historical Duke Wen of Jin. He rewarded all the ministers who had accompanied him into exile, but forgot about Jie Zi push. Many people were angry with Jie Zi Tui and urged him to face the king to ask for rewards, but Jie Zi Tui despised those who competed for rewards. He packed his clothes and went to Mianshan Mountain with his mother to live in seclusion. When Duke Wen of Jin heard about this, he was so ashamed that he personally went to invite Jie Zi push, but Jie Zi push had already left his home and went to Mianshan Mountain. The Mianshan Mountain is very high and dense with trees, so it is not easy to find the two men, and some people have the idea to burn Mianshan Mountain from three sides to force Jie Zi Tui out.

The fire burned all over Mianshan Mountain, but did not see the figure of Jie Zi Tui, after the fire went out, people realized that carrying his mother Jie Zi Tui has been sitting under an old willow tree and died. Jin Wendong saw this, mournful tears. When the coffin, from the hole in the tree found a bloody book, written on it: "cut meat to serve the king's heart, but I hope that the Lord is always clear." To commemorate Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered this day to be designated as the "Cold Food Festival". The next year, Duke Wen of Jin led his ministers to climb the mountain to pay homage to him, and found that the old willow tree had risen from the dead, so he gave the old willow tree the name of "Qingming Willow", and announced to the world that the day after the Cold Food Festival would be designated as the "Qingming Festival" again.

Connotation: Qingming has two major connotations: the festival and the festival, the Qingming festival in time and meteorological and physical characteristics of the formation of the Qingming festival provides important conditions. Qingming is in a time of vigorous anger, but also a time of decline of Yin Qi. Qingming season, spit out the old and new, the beginning of life, the temperature rises, the spring flowers, everything is clean, the earth presents spring and the image of Jingming.

This is a good time for trekking in the countryside (spring excursions) and traveling to the Qing Dynasty (grave ceremonies). The Qingming Festival will be the day of the festival and folk festival into one, is the unity of the time of the day and the time of the people, Qingming ritual culture fully embodies the traditional concept of "unity of mankind". Through the evolution of historical development, the Qingming Festival absorbed and fused the cold food festival and the customs of the festival, mixed a variety of folklore as a whole, with extremely rich cultural connotations.