1, the origin of Qingming Festival. Qingming festival has a long history, originated from the ancient times of spring festival activities, spring and autumn two sacrifices, ancient, ancestor faith and sacrificial culture is an important factor in the formation of the Qingming festival. Qingming has two major connotations: the festival and the festival, and the Qingming festival provides important conditions for the formation of the Qingming festival in terms of time and meteorological and physical characteristics.
2, custom: kite flying. Kites, also known as "paper kites", "kites", kite flying is a favorite activity of the Qingming Festival. Kites are made of paper or silk on the skeleton of bamboo gabions, pulling the long line tied to it, taking advantage of the wind to fly up to the sky, which belongs to a kind of flying machine simply utilizing aerodynamic power. During the Qingming Festival, people not only fly kites during the daytime, but also at night. Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship. Qingming tomb sweeping, that is, "tomb sacrifice", which is called the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect", ancestor worship is the way to remember the ancestors, the custom has a long history. The Qingming Festival is held before and after Qingming, and varies from place to place. In accordance with the custom of Qingming ancestor worship, it is common to set out to sweep the graves in the morning of the Qingming Festival. Worship Qing's way or project varies from place to place, the common practice has two components: one is to refurbish the grave, the second is to hang and burn paper money, offerings.