April blackboard Qingming Festival

Introduction: the Qingming Festival gets its name from the Qingming Festival in the 24 solar terms of China's lunar calendar. Here is the April blackboard Qingming Festival, come and see it with me.

Customs of the Qingming Festival

Customs of the Qingming Festival 1.Cuju

Cuju is a kind of leather ball, the ball skin made of leather, the ball inside the hair stuffed tight. Cuju is a kind of leather ball made of leather and stuffed tightly with wool. It is a favorite game in ancient times during the Qingming Festival. According to legend, it was invented by the Yellow Emperor, and the original purpose was to train warriors.

Qingming Festival customs 2. In ancient times, it was called exploring spring, searching for spring and so on. March Qingming, spring back to the earth, nature everywhere presents a vibrant scene, it is a great time for excursions. China's folk long maintained the Qingming green habits.

Qingming Festival customs 3. Swinging

This is China's ancient Qingming Festival customs. Swinging, that is, migrating by the leather rope. Its history is very old, the earliest called the thousand autumn, after in order to avoid taboos, changed to swing. Ancient swing with branches for the frame, and then bolted on the ribbon made. Later gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Playing swing not only can improve health, but also can cultivate the spirit of bravery, so far for people, especially children love.

Customs of Qingming Festival 4. planting trees

Around Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines, the spring sun shines, the spring rain sprinkles, planting saplings with a high survival rate, fast growth. Therefore, since ancient times, our country has Qingming tree planting custom. Some people also call the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day". Tree-planting custom has been handed down to the present day. 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress stipulated that every year on March 12 for China's Tree Planting Day. This is to mobilize the people of all nationalities to actively carry out activities to green the motherland, has a very important significance.

Qingming Festival customs 5. Qingming Tomb Sweeping

The so-called "think of the time of respect" for the ancestors. The custom has a long history. Ming Dynasty Beijing Scenic Spectaculars contains "March Qingming Day, men and women sweeping tombs carrying Pusaetha scandens and hanging ingots behind the sedan chair and horses, and the road is full of them with a great deal of charm. Worshippers, libationists, weepers, and those who weed the graves and add soil to them burn kozo, and then place paper money on the graves. If there is no paper money, the grave is alone. When the weeping is over, they don't go home, but they tend to the fragrant trees and choose a garden to sit in and get drunk." In fact? Tomb-sweeping before the Qin Dynasty, but not necessarily on the occasion of the Qingming Qingming tomb-sweeping is after the Qin Dynasty. To the Tang Dynasty began to flourish and has been passed down to the present day. The Qingming ceremony should be held in person at the graveyard, but because of the economic and other conditions of each family are not the same, so the way of cleaning will be different. "The main form of ancestor worship is to burn a bundle. The so-called "baggage" is also known as "package" refers to filial piety from the Yang Shi sent to the "netherworld" of the mailbag.

Customs of Qingming Festival 6. kite flying

It is also a favorite activity of people in Qingming Festival. Every Qingming Festival, people not only fly during the day, but also at night. At night, under the kite or on the wind steady pull line hangs a string of small colorful lanterns, like twinkling stars, known as the "God lamp". In the past, some people put the kite on the blue sky, they cut the line, let the wind send them to the end of the world, it is said that this can remove the disease, bring good luck to themselves.

Ching Ming Festival why sweep the tomb

Ching Ming Festival has now become an important festival for people to sweep the graveyard, far away from the people, Ching Ming Festival sweep the tomb began when? Folklorists have explained this, the general view is that the custom of Qingming Tomb Sweeping is inherited from the tradition of the Cold Food Festival, "before the Tang Dynasty Tomb Sweeping, are in the period of the Cold Food Festival. Will be confused with the cold food festival, about from the Tang Dynasty; will be confused with the cold food tomb sweeping for Qingming tomb sweeping, about only from the Tang Dynasty to start"

Qingming Festival what offerings

a, incense and candles

incense and candles is the tomb sweeping necessary, the most important 'items. Not only to light incense and candles in the ancestors, but also incense to the land of the mountain gods who look after the cemetery, praying for the land of the mountain gods to guard the cemetery, blessing the soul of the deceased.

Second, paper money

Paper money is to be burned to the deceased, so that they have money to spend in the underworld, be sure to burn clean.

Third, the vegetarian wine

The process of grave sweeping, equal to bring food to the ancestors of the festival, so to the ancestors of the wine, wine for the grave sweeping necessary.

Fourth, fruit snacks

Fruit to the local seasonal fruit is appropriate, there is no special requirements; snacks depending on the specific circumstances.

Fifth, the meal

to the ancestors liked to eat for the best, many people will be in the ancestors at the same time, to tell the children about the deeds of the ancestors, so that the next generation do not forget their ancestors.

Six, flowers

Chrysanthemums have the meaning of thoughts and nostalgia, Qingming graves generally chrysanthemums are appropriate, white chrysanthemums, especially on the scene.

Seven, "baggage"

"baggage", that is, grave sweepers (family members of the deceased) to the deceased with food and clothing things, because of the white paper paste a large pocket and named, loaded with medieval money, gold and silver, as well as a variety of paper do "Yuanbao", "clothes", "furniture" and so on.

Tomb-sweeping Procedures for Qingming Festival

The first thing to do is to sweep the tomb, that is, to clean the cemetery.

The second is the sacrifice, this procedure is very critical, one is to send condolences, and the second is to feel with the ancestors, because the mountain has the spirit but not the master, the ancestors have the master but not the spirit, and feel with the ancestors can be better to get the spirit of the mountains and rivers. This is feng shui.

Tomb-sweeping, people carry wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, food offerings in front of loved ones' graves, and then incinerate the paper money for the graves to cultivate new soil, repair graves, folding a few green branches inserted in the graves, but also in the upper side of the pressure of some paper money, so that other people look at it, know that the grave is still there, then kowtow to pay homage. After that, they sit around and eat and drink; they also fly kites and even compete with each other in related activities. Women and children will also be close to the fold some willow branches, will be removed from the steamed food offerings with willow threaded up. Some of the willow woven into a wicker circle, wearing on the head, said "Qingming not wear willow, the next life into a yellow dog". That is: amend the graveyard - incense - meat - toast - worship -- discharge cannons to send off.