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What are the sacrificial offerings for sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
The custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day
What does Tomb-Sweeping Day mean?
What are the sacrificial offerings for sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
1. Traditional Sacrifice: Some citizens said in the interview that they would continue the traditional sacrifice methods, such as burning paper money and offering wreaths, but it is gratifying that the reporter found in the interview that compared with the traditional custom of burning incense, Dongying citizens are generally more rational, not blindly pursuing quantity, but paying more attention to giving "hearts".
Sacrificial supplies: incense, candles, paper money, flowers, clean water, fruits, vegetarian food, cakes, firecrackers, fireworks and brooms.
2. Sacrifice of green civilization: With the change of people's concept, beautiful flowers have gradually become an essential thing for Tomb-Sweeping Day's sacrifice. In recent years, more and more citizens admire the "green" way of offering sacrifices. In the eyes of many young and middle-aged citizens, some "villas" and "houses" sold in sacrificial shops are made of benzene boards, which will pollute the environment when burned. By offering a bunch of flowers, toasting, planting a tree, reliving the deeds of martyrs and other civilized and healthy ways to remember the martyrs and ancestors, we advocate folk activities such as outing, hiking and flying kites, cultivate a healthy and civilized holiday lifestyle, consciously resist vulgar sacrificial supplies, bid farewell to sacrificial habits, and advocate civilized sacrificial methods.
Sacrificial supplies: flowers, fruits, vegetarian food, cakes and drinks.
Third, online sacrifice: The so-called online sacrifice is to "move" real memorial halls and cemeteries to computers with the help of the characteristics of the Internet across time and space, so that people can pay homage to their deceased relatives anytime and anywhere. This way is a new way of offering sacrifices, which is suitable for many young people and people who go out. Nowadays, there are various ways of civilized sacrifice, besides flower sacrifice, there are also tree planting sacrifice, family sacrifice and collective sacrifice. People can mourn by offering a bunch of flowers, a glass of wine, planting a tree, and reading a eulogy. With the popularity of the Internet, "online cemetery", "WeChat memorial service" and "cloud memorial service" have gradually become popular. People can offer flowers, poems, messages, incense and wine to their ancestors on the special channel of the website, which is a simple and civilized way of paying homage.
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The custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day
play on the swing
This is the custom of ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day in China. Swing, that is, lift the rope, move. It has a very long history. It was originally called Qian Qiu, but later it was changed into a swing to avoid taboos. In ancient times, swings were made of branches and tied with ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into two ropes, a pedal swing. Playing swing can not only improve health, but also cultivate courage, which is deeply loved by people, especially children.
play football
Bow is a rubber ball, the skin of which is made of leather, and the ball is stuffed with wool. Cuju is kicking the ball with your feet. This is a popular game in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to legend, it was invented by the Yellow Emperor with the original purpose of training warriors.
spring outing
Also called spring outing. It was called Tanchun and Xunchun in ancient times. March is clear, spring returns to the earth, and nature is full of vitality everywhere, which is a good time to go for an outing. People in our country have always maintained the habit of going for an outing in Qingming.
plant trees
Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring is bright, the spring is bright, and the spring rain is falling. The planted seedlings have high survival rate and fast growth. Therefore, China has the habit of planting trees in Qingming since ancient times. Some people even call Tomb-Sweeping Day Arbor Day. The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day. 1979, the National People's Congress designated March 12 every year as China's Arbor Day. This is of great significance to mobilize people of all ethnic groups in China to actively carry out activities to green the motherland.
fly a kite
It is also Tomb-Sweeping Day's favorite activity. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people not only wore it during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of colored lanterns is hung under the kite or on the wind-stabilizing stay, like twinkling stars, which is called "magic lamp". Someone used to put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to yourself.
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What does Tomb-Sweeping Day mean?
Tomb-Sweeping Day custom is not only an individual's time experience and space experience, but also a group's folk religious practice. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people's mourning for ancestors has the functions of regulating body and mind, relieving stress and improving interpersonal relationships. The cultural significance embodied in the custom of sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day can be interpreted and understood in different times and at different levels. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to worship ancestors, and it is also a good time to go hiking and get close to nature. These customs and activities reflect people's simple concept of adapting to the weather and living in harmony. The lasting national feelings presented by the Qingming ancestor worship activities give us an opportunity to re-examine the cultural significance of traditional festivals.
As one of the four traditional festivals in China, Tomb-Sweeping Day has a very long history in China. Today's Tomb-Sweeping Day is a combination of Tomb-Sweeping Day, Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival, which was finalized in the Tang Dynasty. Even from this era, it has a history of 13400 years. As a traditional festival with strong China traditional culture, characteristics and vitality, Tomb-Sweeping Day is still a festival that the general public attaches importance to. In recent years, with the acceleration of globalization and the great development of economy, society and culture in China, many traditional festivals have declined and many traditional customs have been gradually abandoned.
However, in today's period when the whole traditional festival is facing great changes, many traditional festival customs and their connotations have been preserved. As far as the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day is concerned, one of its two major themes, the sacrifice to sweep the grave, has inevitably undergone some changes and has been completely preserved. It is a long-standing custom to pay homage to ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from ancestor worship and filial piety culture in traditional culture. It is a concentrated expression of the Chinese cultural spirit of respecting the family, cautiously pursuing the future and appreciating the achievements of ancestors, so it has become the core content of festivals in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Today, this custom is still widely valued by people. However, due to the relevant differences between urban and rural areas, Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship shows different trends in urban and rural areas.
In urban areas, grave sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day is still widely valued by people. At the same time, compared with tradition, the custom of sweeping graves in cities has changed greatly. Because funerals in cities now take the form of cremation, and sacrifices are placed in urns, together with other people's ashes. Or although there are graves, there are generally no ancestral graves. This has led to some changes in ancestor worship. For example, there is no longer the content of renovating graves, or because ancestral graves cannot be found, ancestors are generally no longer sacrificed. In the way of offering sacrifices, the general trend is simplicity, civilization and innovation. Many people have changed the traditional custom of burning paper to offer sacrifices to the dead in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Instead, they offer flowers and sweep graves online to express their grief.
Online sacrifice refers to the virtual cemeteries set up by netizens on some websites to set graves for dead relatives. Relatives and friends of the deceased can present a bunch of flowers, light a candle, plant a pine and cypress or leave their own eulogy for the deceased on this personal webpage. Although this kind of sacrifice is novel and convenient, it can't have the benefits of a spring outing.
After the founding of New China, under the advocacy of the government, it has become an increasingly important activity to visit the graves in the Martyrs Cemetery on Qingming Festival. During the Qingming period, schools or units all over the country often organize people to visit the graves of revolutionary martyrs to remember the deeds of martyrs. In rural areas, the traditional form is generally maintained, and sweeping graves in Qingming is a serious task for every farmer. At present, most rural areas in China still adopt the method of burial, which provides objective conditions for preserving the traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day customs. However, the countryside is also changing quietly.
On the other hand, another theme of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs is entertainment, which is also very important and should be strongly advocated. First of all, it can exercise. For example, as far as flying kites is concerned, there is an old saying in China that people who fly kites tend to live longer. Chinese medicine believes that people who fly kites are bathed in warm sunshine and spring breeze, which can "relieve summer heat and cool down, strengthen their physique and benefit their health". Indeed, through the cooperation of hands and eyes and the activities of limbs when flying kites, we can achieve the effects of dredging meridians, harmonizing qi and blood, and strengthening the body, and have the effect of removing diseases and keeping in good health for depression, vision loss, insomnia and forgetfulness.
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