What is the meaning of tomb sweeping and ancestor worship during the Qingming Festival? What is the connotation of tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival?

What is the meaning of tomb sweeping and ancestor worship during the Qingming Festival? What is the connotation of tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival?
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The meaning of tomb sweeping and ancestor worship during Qingming Festival

1. Remembering our ancestors
Since ancient times, China has believed that "filial piety is the most important virtue", and tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival is also a way to show filial piety. Tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival is a way to respect the dead and honor ancestors. It is an activity for people to express gratitude and reflect the love of blood-related family members.
2. Remember the tradition
Tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival is a tradition passed down from ancient times to the present, so it is not only a personal matter, but also a kind of inheritance of national spiritual culture. In addition, tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival also inherits the spirit of "filial piety" of the Chinese nation, which means that people should not forget their duties while being grateful to their ancestors.
3. Respect for history
The tradition of tomb-sweeping on Qingming Festival is the spiritual umbilical cord connecting individuals with history. Remembering ancestors is a manifestation of people's respect for life. It is also a kind of awe for past history and respect for the struggles and hard work of ancestors. Therefore, people today should also respect history and avoid leaving any man-made omissions.

The Origin of Tomb Sweeping and Ancestor Worship on Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival is the major spring festival of the Chinese nation. Corresponding to the spring festival of Qingming is the autumn festival of Double Ninth Festival. Therefore, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship can be said to be the core of Qingming Festival customs.
Tomb sweeping during Qingming Festival is also called "tomb sacrifice", which is called "respect for ancestors at the right time". The custom has a long history. The custom of tomb sweeping and ancestor worshipping on Qingming Festival is related to humanistic and natural cultural contents such as beliefs, sacrifices, calendar and solar terms. The Chinese nation has had the custom of respecting ancestors and remembering their ancestors since ancient times. In ancient times, agriculture was the main industry of traditional society. In order to have a good harvest, people not only prayed for good weather, but also asked their ancestors for blessings. Thus, the tradition of spring sacrifices gradually formed during the Qingming Festival. The custom of tomb sweeping and ancestor worship existed before the Pre-Qin period. Due to the different customs between the north and the south during the Pre-Qin period, tomb sweeping was not necessarily done during the Qingming Festival in some places. In the pre-Qin era, tomb sweeping in some places was mainly done on the Cold Food Festival and the Cold Clothes Festival. It was not until the Tang and Song dynasties that tomb sweeping on the Qingming Festival became popular across the country.
Qingming Festival has a long historical origin and is a synthesis and sublimation of traditional Spring Festival customs. The Tang Dynasty was a period of integration of tomb-worshiping customs from all over the country. The Qingming tomb-worshiping customs were continued and expanded to the entire society. According to the records in the "Book of Rites", there was no custom of visiting tombs and offering sacrifices on Qingming Festival in some places in the north in ancient times. By the Tang Dynasty, visiting tombs and offering sacrifices on Qingming Festival had become a custom. Since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court has given officials holidays so that they can return home to visit graves. According to the Song Dynasty's "Menglianglu", every Qingming Festival, "officials and common people all go out to the suburbs to visit tombs to show their respect." The tomb-sweeping activities before and after Qingming Festival often become an event participated in by the entire society. For several days, there is an endless stream of people coming and going in the suburbs, and the scale is extremely grand. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Qingming Festival had integrated the customs of the Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival, and has been passed down to this day.

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