What is the origin of Qingming Festival? Are there any customs for Qingming Festival?
Introduction: Qingming Festival is a custom of ancestor worship that has been passed down from ancient times to the present. Qingming Festival inevitably gives people a feeling of melancholy, coupled with the drizzle, which makes people's melancholy even more severe. So what is the origin of Qingming Festival? Are there any other customs for Qingming Festival? Let’s follow the editor to learn more about it! Mr. Shui Mo will tell you how beautiful every day in the third month of the lunar calendar is, and how touching every day in March is, because the drizzle in March brings you poetic longing.When is Qingming Festival in 2017?The Qingming Festival in 2017 is on April 4, the eighth day of the third lunar month, which is Tuesday.The Origin and Customs of Qingming FestivalHowever, Qingming as a festival is different from a pure solar term. The solar terms are a symbol of phenological changes and seasonal order in my country, while festivals include certain customs and activities and a certain commemorative significance.Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country and also the most important festival for ancestor worship. It is a day for worshiping ancestors and sweeping tombs. Tomb sweeping, commonly known as visiting the grave, is an activity to commemorate the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit their ancestors' graves on Qingming Festival. According to the old custom, when sweeping the graves, people have to bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of the graves of their relatives, burn the paper money, add new soil to the graves, break off a few green branches and insert them on the graves, then kowtow and pay homage, and finally eat the wine and food and go home. The poem "Qingming" by Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu goes like this: "Rains fall heavily during the Qingming festival, and travellers on the road are almost heartbroken. May I ask where the tavern is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance." It describes the special atmosphere of Qingming Festival. Qingming Festival, also known as the outing festival, is between April 4th and 6th every year according to the Gregorian calendar. It is the time when spring is bright and the grass is green. It is also a good time for people to go on spring outings (called outings in ancient times). Therefore, the ancients had the custom of going on outings on Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities. To this day, the custom of worshiping ancestors and mourning deceased relatives on Qingming Festival is still very popular. Origin of Qingming Festival:my country's traditional Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming was originally a very important solar term. When Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good time for spring ploughing and planting, so there is a saying "Plant melons and beans before and after Qingming." There is an agricultural proverb that goes "The best time to plant trees is during the Qingming Festival." Later, because Qingming and Cold Food Festival were close to each other, and Cold Food Festival was a day when people were forbidden to use fire and sweep tombs, gradually, Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival were merged into one. Cold Food Festival became not only another name for Qingming Festival, but also a custom during the Qingming Festival. On Qingming Festival, people do not use fireworks and only eat cold food.Summary: The above is about the origin and some customs of Qingming Festival. You can refer to it. I hope the above content is helpful to everyone! |
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