1, Qingming Festival, also known as Treading Green Festival, line Qing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc., the festival period in the middle of spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the belief in ancestors and the rituals of spring festival in the ancient times, and it has both natural and humanistic connotations, which makes it a natural festival as well as a traditional festival. Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship, as well as trekking and picnicking, are the two main themes of Qingming Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and are still practiced to this day. Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is a solemn festival for sweeping tombs and ancestor worship as well as a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and playing, and enjoying the joys of spring. The Qingming Festival is celebrated on the Doji B (or when the sun's yellow meridian reaches 15°), and the time of the festival is around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar. At this time of year, the angry and vigorous, the decline of yin gas, everything "spit out the old and new", the earth presents the image of spring and landscape, it is the countryside trekking and spring tour and line Qing Tomb Sacrifice is a good time. Qingming ancestor festival period is very long, there are 10 days ago after 8 days and 10 days ago after 10 days two say, this nearly 20 days are within the Qingming ancestor festival period.
2, the Qingming Festival in the calendar 04-06, worship Qing (Qingming ancestor worship) activities are usually in the Qingming Festival 10 days before to after 10 days, some places worship Qing activities up to a month. Qingming Festival is one of the important "eight festivals of the year" in China. As a festival, Qingming is different from pure festivals in that festivals are signs of changes in climate and the order of the seasons, while festivals contain spiritual beliefs and rituals. Ancestor beliefs and sacrificial culture are important factors in the formation of the Qingming Festival, which is an important carrier for the transmission of beliefs and family and human relationships, and the Qingming Festival is a cultural expression and an important way to be grateful to ancestors and close to human feelings. Qingming tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship custom has become a fixed theme of rituals and customs through successive generations.
The Qingming Festival carries a rich cultural connotation in its historical development, and there are differences in the content or details of the customs in different parts of the country due to geographical differences, and the festivals in different parts of the country are not the same, but sweeping tombs and sacrificing to the ancestors, and trekking is **** the same as the basic etiquette of the theme. Every Qingming Festival, people, no matter where they are, will return to their hometowns to participate in ancestor worship activities, in memory of their ancestors. The culture of Qingming rituals and customs fully embodies the humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation of honoring ancestors and pursuing the future with caution. In the ancestor worship rituals to be careful to catch up with the past, in the trekking excursions to enjoy the fun of spring, cultural heritage and physical and mental adjustment is an important function of the Qingming rituals and culture.