Liu Bang threw shredded paper to find his parents' graves, and the folk followed suit with the Qingming Festival.

The Qingming Festival, both natural and humanistic two connotations, that is, one of the "twenty-four solar terms", is also a traditional festival of ancestor worship.

The Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, in memory of ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, not only to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memories, but also to promote the cohesion of the family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity.

The Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is both a solemn festival of sweeping tombs and sacrificing ancestors, as well as a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and enjoying the fun of spring. Doo refers to B as the Qingming Festival, and the time of crossing the festival is around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar. This time of the year, angry and prosperous, Yin Qi recession, everything "spit out the old and new", the earth presents the image of spring and Jingming, it is the countryside trekking and spring line Qing tomb festival of good times.

The legend of the Qingming Festival short story

The Qingming Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals, the Qingming Festival is one of the most important festivals, is the ancestor of the day and sweep the tomb. So do you know how the Qingming Festival came about? Let me inform you a

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●? Legends and Stories of Qingming Festival

The story goes that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the consort of the Duke Xian of Jin, Li Ji, set up a poisonous plot to murder the crown prince, Shen Sheng, who was forced to commit suicide in order to make her son, Xi Qi, succeed to the throne. Shen Sheng's younger brother, Chong Er, went into exile to avoid the disaster. While in exile, Chong Er suffered a lot of humiliation. Most of the ministers who followed him went their own way one after another. There were only a few loyal men left who followed him all the way. One of them was called Jie Zi Tui (介子推). Once, Chong Er passed out from hunger. In order to save Chong Er, Jie Zi Pui cut off a piece of meat from his thigh, cooked it over a fire and gave it to Chong Er to eat. Nineteen years later, Chong Er returned to his country and became the ruler of Jin, one of the famous Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period.

When Duke Wen of Jin came to power, he rewarded those who had suffered with him, but he forgot about Jie Zi Tui. Some people complained for Jie Zi Tui in front of Duke Wen of Jin. Duke Wen of Jin suddenly remembered the old story, the heart of shame, immediately sent to ask the mesoteric pushes on the court to be rewarded by the official. However, after several trips, Jie Zi Tui did not come. Duke Wen of Jin had to go in person. However, when Duke Wen came to Jie Zi Tui's house, he saw the door was closed. Jie Zi Tui did not want to see him, and had already carried his mother to hide in Mian Mountain. Duke Wen of Jin then sent his imperial army up to Mianshan to search for him, but they did not find him. So, someone had an idea that it would be better to set fire to the mountain, lighting fires on three sides and leaving one side behind, so that when the fire started, Jie Zi Tui would come out by himself. Duke Wen of Jin ordered the fire to burn the mountain, but the fire burned for three days and three nights, after the fire was extinguished, did not see Kai Zi push out. Up the mountain to see, jiezi push mother and son holding a big charred willow tree has died. Duke Wen of Jin looked at the body of the mesquite push to cry and worship for a while, and then buried the remains, found the mesquite push spine blocked a willow tree hole, the hole seems to have something. He took out a piece of his robe and inscribed it with a poem in blood:

Cutting out his flesh and serving his king, I wish my lord would always be clear.

It is better to be a ghost under the willow than to be an advisor to the king.

If you have me in your heart, you will always think of yourself when you remember me.

If I am not ashamed of myself in the nine springs, I will be diligent and clear in my administration.

Duke Wen of Jin hid the bloody book in his sleeve. Then he buried Jie Zi Tui and his mother under the charred willow tree. To honor Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that Mian Shan be changed to "Jie Shan", built a shrine on the mountain, and designated the day the mountain was set on fire as the Cold Food Festival, telling the whole country to abstain from fireworks and to eat only cold food on that day every year.

When he left, he cut down a section of burnt willow wood and made a pair of wooden clogs in the palace, looking at them every day and sighing, "Woe is the foot." "This is said to have been the origin of the ancient term of respect used by subordinates for their superiors or peers.

The next year, the Duke of Jin led a group of ministers on a hike in plain clothes to pay homage and express their condolences. When he arrived at the grave, he saw the old willow tree come back to life, with thousands of green branches dancing in the wind. Duke Wen of Jin looked at the resurrected old willow tree and saw it as if he had seen Jie Zi Tui. He went to it respectfully, pinched a branch and wove a circle on his head. After the ceremony, the Duke of Jin gave the name "Qingming Willow" to the resurrected old willow tree, and designated this day as Qingming Festival.

●? Qingming Festival Festival History

Everything is aligned with the Sundance, things to this point are all clean and clear."

Ching Ming, a day that makes people feel refreshed just by its name, occupies an important position in China's traditional festivals and has been passed down to the present day. Just by virtue of the fact that it is included in the legal holidays along with the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, you can get a glimpse of the weight of Qingming in people's minds.

However, Qingming was not born with such an important position. Twenty-four festivals, each with its own cultural heritage, why is Qingming the only one that can be a festival and a holiday? There is a long story to be told.

Named for the wind

Since the beginning of spring, Qingming is the fifth of the twenty-four festivals, and takes place between April 4 and 6 every year. During this time, in many parts of China, the footsteps of spring has long since come, and the summer heat has not yet approached, the climate characteristics justified the four words, "Qingming Jingming". People therefore often think that the name of Qingming, from this time the pleasant climate conditions.

In fact, if you look for the answer from the ancient books, you will find that the word "Qingming" has a deeper source. East Han Xu Shen "Shuowen Jiezi" release "wind", said: "wind, eight winds. Oriental said Ming Shu wind, southeast said Qingming wind" eight winds have different names, on behalf of the wind blowing in different directions, but also represents the ancients of the monsoon changes in the cognition. Which mentioned the Qingming wind, is the Qingming festival name source.

Written in the Western Han Dynasty, "Huainanzi - Tianwenxun" recorded, "What are the eight winds? Forty-five days from the winter solstice, the strip wind to; strip wind to forty-five days, the Ming Shu wind to; Ming Shu wind to forty-five days, the Qingming wind to "It should be noted that the Western Han Dynasty's twenty-four festivals with today's version of the difference between the winter solstice as the first section, and the Kai hibernation row in the rain before the rain, rain row in the Qingming, so that after the winter solstice, 135 days, the Qingming wind to the day, is the The Qingming Festival is the first festival of the year.

Annexation of "cold food"

Up to this point, Qingming is still an indication of the climate, to help agricultural production of the festival. But as times change, the meaning of Qingming is also gradually expanding, with its date of the festival, was it "merged" "absorbed", was once a major festival of the cold food festival, was absorbed into the Qingming, to the Qingming brought a ban on fireworks, eat cold food, cleaning up The custom of ancestor worship.

When it comes to the origin of the Cold Food Festival, many people are saddened by the story of Duke Wen of Jin and Jie Zitui. Jie Zi push cut his shares to feed his exiled son Chong Er, but when Chong Er took control of Jin, he went into hiding with his mother. When Chong Er set fire to a mountain, he failed to force out Jie Zi Pui, but instead burned him to death. It is believed that it was the heartbroken Chong Er who established the Cold Food Festival in honor of Jie Zi Pui.

This story, though touching, is hardly the true origin of a national festival. According to the Jing Chu Chronicle, the true origin of the Cold Food Festival can be traced back to the ancient practice of drilling wood to make fire. When the seasons changed, different trees were used to make fire, which was called changing fire. It was forbidden to make fires when the seasons changed, which is why the Cold Food Festival was created.

The earliest spring festivals in China were held at the Cold Food Festival, and have since been gradually incorporated into the Qingming custom. This is due to the close proximity of the Cold Food Festival to Qingming, usually one or two days before it. The two festivals were gradually merged into one, perhaps for the sake of vacation convenience, or perhaps it was just a matter of habit. It's hard to say when the cold food festival was completely replaced by Qingming, but at least as late as the Tang dynasty, people still had the habit of eating cold food, and in many areas influenced by Chinese culture, such as South Korea, the tradition of spring festivals on the cold food festival still exists.

In the Tang Hui Yao, recorded in the court in the Qingming, cold food has a holiday, the original intention may be to facilitate people to visit ancestors, but it is likely that the establishment of this holiday, so that the Qingming another "annexation" of the opportunity - on the Si Si Festival is also included! The "sphere of influence" of the Qingming.

Absorption of "on the Si"

If the cold food festival to Qingming injected nostalgia, then on the Si Festival to Qingming brought more in line with the weather and climate of this time of the year to the joy. The festival is a joyous one.

The Analects of Confucius in the famous "twilight spring, spring clothes have become, the crown of five or six people, children six or seven people, bathing in the Yi, wind and summer, singing and return." Recorded is the custom of the festival. Since ancient times, this festival is the most important festival in the "purification bath" activities.

At the festival, people want to clean their bodies and get rid of bad luck. Literati like to feast in the water at this time of the year, poetry, and held a "goblet" game. The most famous one is Wang Xizhi's Lanting Meeting. In the folk world, people also go on spring excursions, have picnics, pick flowers, and enjoy the beautiful spring scenery.

Similar to the cold food, the time when Shangsi was merged into Qingming was also roughly between the Tang and Song dynasties. The evidence is often seen in the poetry of the Tang Dynasty

And to the Song Dynasty, on the Si Festival records suddenly very few. Even like to play "with the people with the people" banner of the Song Huizong, also do not see it in this day "with the people with the people" over. In Ouyang Xiu's "The Fisherman's Pride", it is mentioned that "March is a clear day. The clear river purification and purification return late. Moreover, it is far away from the place of trekking". It can be seen that the original belongs to the festival of purification and purification, trekking, has become a Qingming custom.

With the Qingming, cold food set in the winter solstice after a relatively fixed number of days different, the date of the festival based on the lunar calendar, in the lunar calendar on the third day of the third month, the date of the Qingming with the date of the near and far, but also into the Qingming. The reason for this, and the above mentioned Qingming vacation policy may not be unrelated. People rarely get a vacation, and it is a good time in the spring, go out and clean up after, trekking and play some very natural.

The Tang Emperor Li Zhi years, "Tomb Sweeping + trekking" mode is very prevalent, so much so that Li Zhi that this move is not enough respect for the dead, also specifically prohibited by imperial edict: "There are also funerals, *** for the joy of drinking, hand in hand to persuade the payoff, and then return to the drunkenness. Or cold food on the tomb, again for joy, sitting on the pine _, had no chi Rong, both tarnished the wind, and should be prohibited."

This edict attempted to put an end to the behavior of many people who took advantage of spring excursions to sweep tombs. Objectively, it also served as evidence that this was very common. But later historical developments show that such an official ban from Li Zhi was ineffective, and by the Song Dynasty, the custom, which originally belonged to the March 3 Shangsi Festival, had slowly become part of Qingming.

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The name of Qingming Festival is related to the characteristics of the weather and material conditions at this time. In the Western Han Dynasty, "Huainanzi - Tianwenxun" says: "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, when the bucket points to B, the wind of Qingming arrives." "Qingming wind" means fresh and clean wind. The "Hundred Questions on the Time of the Year" says, "Everything grows at this time, all clean and clear. Therefore, it is called Qingming." Although the festival of Qingming was only formed in the Tang Dynasty, the Qingming Festival as a sign of the time has long been recognized by the ancients, the Han Dynasty has been clearly recorded.

The twenty-four solar terms are the climatic patterns summarized by ancient Chinese astronomers and people in their lives and production practices, reflecting more appropriately the changes in temperature, physical conditions, rainfall and other aspects of the year, and providing indispensable guidance for people to arrange farming, sericulture, and other activities according to the time of the year. To the Qingming, warming temperatures, rainfall increased, is the spring plowing and planting of a good time. So Qingming is an important festival for ancient agricultural production. Farmer's proverbs say "before and after the Qingming, point melon and plant beans", "planting trees and forests, not over the Qingming", is precisely the reason. Eastern Han Cui _ "Four People's Monthly Order" records: "Qingming Festival, the order of sericulture concubine, the rule of sericulture room ------" said that this time to start preparing for sericulture. The "Qingming Festival" is still only a festival, not a holiday.

The Qingming Festival provides important conditions for the formation of the Qingming Festival customs in terms of time and weather characteristics, and the festival is regarded as one of the sources of the Qingming Festival.

Integration of Cold Food Festival Customs

Chingming was first known as a kind of festival, and its transformation into a festival honoring ancestors was related to the Cold Food Festival. Legend has it that the Cold Food Festival, an earlier festival in ancient China, was established in the Spring and Autumn Period to honor Jie Zi Tui, a loyal and righteous minister of the state of Jin. In fact, from a historical practical point of view, the prohibition of fire and cold food mainly reflects the remains of the ancient Chinese custom of changing fire. Primitive society, the pioneers drilled wood for fire, the fire is hard to come by, the fire of the tree species is often due to seasonal changes and constantly changing, therefore, change the fire and get a new fire is a major event in the life of the ancients. Spring and March is the time to change the fire, people in the new fire has not yet arrived, to prohibit fire. The Han Dynasty called the Cold Food Festival a festival against smoking, because on this day the people's homes are not allowed to raise a fire, and only in the evening by the palace lit a candle flame, and the fire will be passed on to the homes of the relatives and important ministers.

Customs during the Cold Food Festival include the prohibition of fire and cold food, and grave-sweeping, which later became a major part of the Qingming Festival.

Ancient Chinese people attached great importance to ancestor worship. In ancient times, when someone died in the family, only a grave pit was dug for burial, no mound was built to mark the occasion, and sacrifices were mainly performed in the ancestral temple. Later, when digging a grave pit, also build a mound, the ancestors will be arranged in the cemetery, there will be a material dependence. During the Warring States period, the wind of grave worship gradually thickened.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the custom of grave-sweeping was even more prevalent. According to the Book of Han, the minister Yan Yannian had to regularly return to his hometown to visit the cemetery even though he was thousands of miles away from the capital. In the Tang Dynasty, both scholars and commoners regarded sweeping graves on the Cold Food Festival as the ritual of returning to the roots of the ancestors, and people often extended the sweeping to Qingming because it was very close to the Cold Food Festival. Poetry people's works, is often cold food, Qingming and mentioned, such as Wei Yingwu poem said: "Qingming cold food is good, spring garden hundred flowers." Bai Juyi also has a verse that says: "Crowing magpies noise faint trees, Qingming cold food who cried." The court, in view of the folk cold food, Qingming has been a habit, in the form of official documents formally stipulated that the arrival of the Qingming, can be with the cold food holiday vacation. This provision has been more than 1200 years ago, indicating that from then on Qingming began to have a certain color of the national legal holidays.

Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qingming Festival gradually from the status of attached to the Cold Food Festival, rose to replace the status of the Cold Food Festival. This is not only the table on the grave sweeping and other ceremonies held in the Qingming, even the original customary activities such as cold food, Cuju, swinging swing, etc., have been Qingming Festival into all.

Integration of the customs of the Festival

The Qingming Festival later absorbed another earlier festival - the content of the Festival. In ancient times, the festival was held on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and the main customs were trekking in the green and purifying purification, reflecting the psychological needs of the people who were in urgent need of spiritual adjustment after a dreary winter. Lu Ji in the Jin Dynasty wrote a poem: "Late twilight spring, the weather is soft and Jia. Yuan Ji Long early Si, Maundy tour of the Yellow River." That is the people in the Festival of Purification of the Purification of the Purification of the Purification of purification, a vivid portrayal of the green.

From about the Tang Dynasty, people in the Qingming grave sweeping at the same time, but also accompanied by the activities of the green fun. Because of the Qingming graves to the countryside to go, in mourning ancestors, by the way, in the bright spring light in the foot green wilderness, is also a kind of mourning self-respect to change the mood of a way to spice it up. Therefore, the Qingming Festival is also known as the Green Festival. Playful nature of the children, often not satisfied with trekking play just in the Qingming held once, as the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei poem, "the youth of the day for roaming, without Qingming and on the Si".

Subsequent development

The integration of the essence of the two ancient festivals of the Qingming Festival, finally in the Song and Yuan Dynasties to form a traditional festival centered on ancestor sweeping, the custom of cold food and on the Si trekking and other activities are integrated.

The Ming and Qing dynasties largely inherited the old system of the previous generation, and the Qingming Festival still insisted on and developed its position as an indispensable festival in the spring life.

During the Republican period, in addition to the original customs of tomb-sweeping and trekking, tree-planting was also established as a regular item on the Qingming Festival, which was in fact no more than an official recognition of the long-continued folk custom of tree-planting. [9] Influenced by Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, including the Manchu, Hezhen, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing, and Qiang, also have the custom of celebrating the Qingming Festival. Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship, trekking and picnicking are the basic themes.

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The Qingming Festival is one of the three major ghost festivals in China. The "Ghost Festival" is a festival of mourning for the dead, as opposed to festivals honoring the gods of heaven and earth.

Participants in the Qingming Festival are all citizens, from kings and ministers to ordinary people, who pay homage to the souls of their ancestors during this festival. Since the Tang Dynasty, the court has given officials a vacation to make it easier for them to return to their hometowns and visit their graves. According to the Song Dynasty's Mengliang Records, every Qingming Festival, "officials and commoners would go out to the countryside to visit the tombs to pay respect to the time of reflection." Participants in the tomb sweepers are not limited to men and women and the number of people, often out of the family. In this way, before and after the Qingming Festival, tomb-sweeping activities often become the whole community personally involved in the matter, within a few days of the countryside between the crowd endless, the scale is very prosperous.

As a ghost festival, the Qingming Festival is mainly dedicated to ancestors and deceased relatives, to express the filial piety of the worshippers and their remembrance of the dead. The fact that the Qingming Festival is a ghost festival and is not usually labeled as such is because it is mainly dedicated to good ghosts, family ghosts, or the souls of those who are close to them, and focuses on the expression of filial piety and remembrance of the deceased. The other two Ghost Festivals also honor evil spirits and wild spirits to appease them and prevent them from haunting the city. However, it is not possible to generalize. Some places also have the Qingming Festival sacrifices to other ghosts and gods of the practice. Shanghai's old custom in the Qingming Festival will be held on the altar ceremony dedicated to the sacrifice of the ghosts, sacrifices those hungry ghosts, ghosts and lonely souls, to prevent them from becoming evil spirits. This kind of altar is called the sacrificial platform. In old Shanghai, there is also the practice of welcoming the god of the city on the day before the Qingming Festival. On the day of Ching Ming Festival, the god of the city will sit in a big sedan chair and go out to offer sacrifices to the Li Tai, in order to provide relief and appease the lonely ghosts, and the scene is very grand and lively.

The Qingming Festival in the Qingming Festival, before and after the Qingming Festival, there are differences in different parts of the world. In the old days, Beijing people do not clean graves on the day of Qingming, but in the "single day" near the Qingming. Only the monks would sweep the graves on the day of Ching Ming. Zhejiang Lishui area in the Qingming Festival in the first three days and four days after the scope of grave sweeping, known as "before the three after four". In Shandong, in the old days, most of the areas in the Qingming day to sweep the tomb, a few areas such as zhucheng, in the cold food day to sweep the tomb, some places in the first four days of Qingming to sweep the tomb; now, generally in the Qingming day to sweep the tomb. Jinnan people, on the other hand, divide the time for sweeping tombs into two times. Once, a few days before Ching Ming, each family goes to sweep the graves separately. The second time is on the day of Ching Ming, a village with the same surname of each family sent representatives, with the cemetery to worship **** the same ancestors. Shanghai people's tomb-sweeping time is different for new and old graves. For those who have recently passed away and have not done the rituals for overcoming the dead after 79 days, they should ask monks and Taoists to recite sutras and do the rituals or Taoist ceremonies on the day of Qingming Festival. If it is an old grave and has done puja or dojo, tomb sweeping is not necessarily on the day of Ching Ming, can be relaxed before and after, but can not exceed the scope of the first seven days after eight days, commonly referred to as: "before seven after eight, the nether world on vacation." Means too early or too late will be out of order.

The Qingming Festival can be divided into different places of worship according to the tomb festival, shrine festival. Tomb sacrifice is the most common. The special feature of Qingming Festival is the tomb festival. In the cemetery sacrifice, the worshipper is closest to the object of sacrifice, easy to cause a feeling of closeness, so that the living to the deceased's filial piety and affection to be better expressed and sent. The Qingming Festival is known as Tomb Sweeping, mainly due to the way of adopting Tomb Sacrifice. Another form is the Ancestral Hall Sacrifice, also known as the Temple Sacrifice, where people of a clan gather at the Ancestral Hall*** to offer sacrifices to their ancestors, and after the sacrifices are made, they have to meet for dinners and so on, and this kind of sacrifice is a way of reuniting the clansmen. There is also a situation where people who work outside their home towns can't make it back to their hometowns to visit their graves, so they offer sacrifices remotely in the direction of their hometowns in the mountains or on high ground.

The way or program of the Qingming festival varies from place to place, but the common practice consists of two parts: one is to renovate the graves, and the other is to hang and burn paper money and offer sacrifices.

The first thing to do when sweeping a grave is to repair it, mainly by removing weeds and adding new soil. On the one hand, this kind of behavior can express the worshiper's filial piety and care for the deceased, on the other hand, in the belief of the ancient people, the ancestors' graves and the rise and fall of the future generations have a great relationship, so the cultivation of graves is a memorial service that should not be neglected.

In the past, due to the influence of the cold food ban on fire, paper money is not burned, but hung in the cemetery on small trees, bamboo poles, or pressed with stones, bumps on the side of the grave. Song Zhuang Jiyu "chicken ribs" volume: "cold food on the mound, but also not set incense. Paper money is hung on the graveyard trees. Those who go to their hometowns and villages climb up the mountain to look at the sacrifice. Cracking silk in the air is called breaking money." In this way, all the graves that have been swept will have paper streamers floating, constituting a unique landscape before and after the Qingming Festival. Those without paper money are usually lonely graves without heirs. Later, generally no longer pay attention to the ban on fire, the paper money burned. In the old days, the main form of ancestor worship at Qingming in Beijing was "burning baggage". The so-called "baggage" was treated by the worshippers as a parcel to be sent to the "netherworld" from the Yangworld. In the old days, the so-called "baggage skin," a large pocket made of white paper, was sold at the Southern Paper Shop. This pocket has two styles: one is patterned, with woodcut printed on the Sanskrit translation of the "mantra", the center of the printed rosette tablets, written on the name of the deceased, such as "the late Zhang Fu Jun, the oldest man in the cloudy mountain," the words. The other is a plain wrapping skin, not printed any pattern, the center only stick a blue sticker, written on the name of the deceased. The package contains a variety of money. Offerings are mainly food, varieties vary from place to place, are local people think and according to the worshipper's financial ability to get out of the delicious food, or seasonal specialties.

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Legendary stories of Qingming Festival?

The legendary story of Qingming Festival: According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er, who was in exile to escape persecution, was so tired and hungry that he was no longer able to stand up, and his vassal, Jie Zi Pui, cut a piece of meat from his own thigh and cooked it into soup for Chong Er to drink. Nineteen years later, Chong Er became the Duke of Jin, but Jie Zi Pui died in a mountain fire with his back against a willow tree. In honor of Jie Zi Pui, the Duke of Jin decreed that this day be designated as the "Cold Food Festival".

The origin of the Qingming Festival legend story of the origin of the Qingming Festival, according to legend, began in ancient times, the emperor and generals "base sacrifice" of the complement. Later, the folk also follow suit, in this day ancestral tomb, along the bag for generations and become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.

The origin of the Qingming Festival legend story "Huainanzi - astronomy training" recorded: "fifteen days after the vernal equinox, the Big Dipper handle pointing to the B position, then the Qingming wind to". This is how the festival of "Qingming" got its name. Qingming is one of China's twenty-four solar terms, which were established by the ancients according to the cycle of the four seasons.

The origin of the Qingming Festival legend story