The Book of Han.
The Book of Han. In terms of Chinese ancestor worship and the development of the sense of kinship, Yan Yan Nian's action is reasonable. Therefore, later generations did not include the ancient norms of the tomb sacrifice into the five rites: "the common people's homes, it is appropriate to allow the tomb, into the five rites, forever as a regular pattern." With this official recognition, the style of tomb worship was bound to flourish.
The Qingming Festival is a festival to honor ancestors. The main commemorative ritual is to sweep the graves, which is a concrete expression of the prudence of the end of the day, the unity of family and filial piety, based on the above significance, the Qingming Festival has become an important festival of the Chinese people.
The Qingming Festival falls on the 106th day after the winter solstice, at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-sweeping activities usually take place 10 days before or 10 days after the Ching Ming Festival. Tomb-sweeping activities are as long as a month for some nationalities.
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When it comes to the Qingming Festival, people with a bit of historical knowledge will associate it with the historical figure Jie Zi Tui. According to history, more than 2,000 years ago during the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin's Prince Chong Er fled the country and lived a hard life. Jie Zi Pui, who followed him, went so far as to cut a piece of meat from his own leg for him to fill his stomach. Later, when Chong Er returned to Jin and became the king of the state (i.e., Duke Wen of Jin, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period), he rewarded all of his followers for their service, but only Jie Zi Pui refused to accept the reward, and took his mother to live in Mianshan Mountain, refusing to come out.
Duke Wen of Jin had no choice but to set the mountain on fire, and thought that Jie Zi Pui, who had filial piety to his mother, would surely come out with his old mother. But the fire killed Jie Zi push's mother and son. In order to honor the memory of Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that every year on this day, fire is forbidden, and every family can only eat raw and cold food, which is the origin of the Cold Food Festival.
The Cold Food Festival is the day before the Qingming Festival. Ancient people used to continue the activities of the Cold Food Festival to Qingming, and over time, people combined the Cold Food and Qingming into one. Now, the Qingming Festival has replaced the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of worshipping Jie Zi Tui has become the custom of sweeping graves at Qingming.
Methods of Commemoration
There are many forms of commemorating ancestors on Qingming Festival:
Tomb-sweeping is one of the earliest customs of Qingming Festival, which has been extended to today and gradually simplified with the progress of society. On the day of tomb-sweeping, children and grandchildren first trim and clean up the weeds in and around the graves of their ancestors, and then make offerings of food and flowers.
As cremation has become more common, the custom of visiting the place where the ashes are placed to pay respects to the deceased has gradually replaced the practice of grave-sweeping.
Chinese Singaporeans also erected shrines for the dead in temples, which became places of worship for the ancestors during Ching Ming.
Some families also worship their ancestors at home on Ching Ming Day.
On Ching Ming Day, one may go to the gravesite of the deceased, the place where the ashes are placed, or the shrine in the temple to bow in silence.
No matter what form of remembrance it takes, the most basic ritual of the Ching Ming Festival is to go to the gravesite, the place where the ashes are placed, or the shrine to memorialize the ancestors. In order to make the ceremony more meaningful, we should let the younger generation of family members know about the past struggles of their ancestors.
Introduction to Qingming Festival
The traditional Qingming Festival in China began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming is a very important festival in the beginning, Qingming, the temperature rises, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting, so there is "before and after Qingming, planting melons and beans". "Tree planting, not over the Qingming" proverbs. Later, due to the Qingming and cold food days close, and cold food is the folk ban on fire sweeping day, gradually, cold food and Qingming on the merger of one, and cold food has become a Qingming alias, but also become a custom for the Qingming festival, Qingming day does not move the fireworks, only to eat cold food.
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When it comes to the Qingming Festival, people with a little knowledge of history will associate it with the historical figure Jie Zi Tui. According to history, during the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago, when Chong Er, a son of the state of Jin, fled the country and lived a hard life, Jie Zi Pui, who followed him, went so far as to cut a piece of meat from his own leg for him to fill up. Later, when Chong Er returned to Jin and became the king of the state (i.e., Duke Wen of Jin, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period), he rewarded all of his followers for their service, but only Jie Zi Tui refused to accept the reward, and took his mother to live in Mianshan Mountain, refusing to come out.
Duke Wen of Jin had no choice but to set the mountain on fire, and thought that Jie Zi Tui, who had filial piety to his mother, would surely come out with his old mother. But the fire killed Jie Zi push's mother and son. In order to honor the memory of Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that every year on this day, fire is forbidden, and every family can only eat raw and cold food, which is the origin of the Cold Food Festival.
The Cold Food Festival is the day before the Qingming Festival. Ancient people used to continue the activities of the Cold Food Festival to Qingming, and over time, people combined the Cold Food and Qingming into one. Now, the Qingming Festival has replaced the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of worshipping Jie Zi Tui has become the custom of sweeping graves at Qingming.
Methods of Commemoration
There are many forms of commemorating ancestors on Qingming Festival:
Tomb-sweeping is one of the earliest customs of Qingming Festival, which has been extended to today and gradually simplified with the progress of society. On the day of tomb-sweeping, children and grandchildren first trim and clean up the weeds in and around the graves of their ancestors, and then make offerings of food and flowers.
As cremation has become more common, the practice of visiting places where ashes are deposited to pay respects to the deceased is gradually replacing the practice of grave-sweeping.
Chinese Singaporeans also erected shrines for the dead in temples, which became places of worship for the ancestors during Ching Ming.
Some families also worship their ancestors at home on Ching Ming Day.
On Ching Ming Day, one may go to the gravesite of the deceased, the place where the ashes are placed, or the shrine in the temple to bow in silence.
No matter what form of remembrance it takes, the most basic ritual of the Ching Ming Festival is to go to the gravesite, the place where the ashes are placed, or the shrine to memorialize the ancestors. In order to make the ceremony more meaningful, we should let the younger generation of family members know about the past struggles of their ancestors.
The Qingming Festival is held on April 5 or 6 every year when the sun reaches 15 degrees of the yellow meridian. The "moon order seventy-two wait collection explanation" said: "March Festival,......, things to this time, all to clean and bright carry on." Therefore, "Qingming" has ice and snow melt, grass and trees green, the weather is clear and bright, everything is thriving." "full step willow green silk smoke, painted Qingming February day", "festival Qingming peach and plum smile", "rain foot countryside grass and trees soft" and other famous lines, it is the Qingming season of heaven and earth and climate of the vivid depiction.
"Before and after the Qingming Festival, planting melons and beans". Qingming season, in addition to the northeast and northwest, most of China's average daily temperature has risen to more than 12 ℃, north and south of the Yangtze River until the Great Wall inside and outside, everywhere is a busy spring plowing scene." Qingming Festival, wheat long three sections", south of the Huanghuai region of wheat is about to pregnant ears, rape has been full flower, northeast and northwest of wheat also entered the pulling period, should grasp the late stage of fertilizer and water management and pest control work. Northern dry, Jiangnan early, middle rice into a large number of sowing season, to seize the opportunity to seize the sunshine early sowing. "Pear wind is clearing", this time a variety of fruit trees into the flowering period, pay attention to good artificial pollination, improve the fruit rate. South China early rice planting sweep, fertilizer should be carried out in a timely manner. Around the corn, sorghum, cotton will also be sown. "Mingqian tea, two buds", the tea tree buds are growing strong, pay attention to the prevention and control of pests and diseases; tea production areas have been exploited one after another, should be strictly scientific harvesting, to ensure that the yield and quality. At this time, the northern cold air still has a certain force, the weather is warm and cold, should pay attention to the defense of low temperatures and late frost weather on wheat, rice seedlings and flowering fruit trees and other spring sowing crops caused by hazards.
"Qingming Festival rain" refers to the climate characteristics of Jiangnan, this time often cloudy and sunny, abundant moisture can generally meet the needs of crop growth, annoying and can not be ignored, but too much rain caused by wet stains and the harm of low light. The vast area north of the Huanghuai Plain, Qingming season precipitation is still very little, the beginning of vigorous growth of crops and spring sowing, moisture is often in short supply, this time the rain is very valuable, these areas should be in the storage of moisture at the same time, in time to get a good spring irrigation, in order to prevent the threat of spring drought.
Ching Ming, not only is an extremely important agricultural season, is also the only one of the twenty-four festivals commonly evolved into folk festivals, also known as the "Qingming Festival". Since ancient times, there are rich commemorative and recreational activities such as sweeping graves, planting willows, trekking, flying kites, etc., which make Qingming full of attractive colors.
Festival couplets
Spring winds are blowing again;
Thinking of your family is more important than ever during the festive season.
Swallows come to the Spring Festival;
Pear blossoms fall behind the Qingming Festival.
March time is the time to change the fire of the acacia;
The news of the apricot blossom is known.
The rain of peaches on the horse;
The apricot blossoms in front of the tree.
The wind and the moon are priceless;
The near water and the distant mountains have feelings.
The fire of the acacia is replaced by the light of spring;
The apricot blossoms are replaced by the rain.
It is often a dream to think of one's relatives;
The words of admonition still ring in one's heart.
The apricot cheese and elm soup come in order;
The stone springs and acacia fires are dreamt of when they are appreciated.
The morning of the sixth day of the hundred and sixth day of the good morning where the apricot cheese and elm soup dream;
Gan four times the letter of the flower stone spring acacia fire for who is new.
Smoky scenery is the reason why the leaves of the acacia;
Windy period is the time to count the neem flowers.
The mountains are beautiful and the scenery is good;
The moon and the stars are sparse.
Sweeping the graves of the ancestors every year;
Everywhere there is still the wind of the elders.
Banning the fire is early this year;
Flying flowers are busy on the town day.
The cold food and rain spread for a hundred and five days;
The flower letter and wind came in twenty-four springs.
The spring breeze has lifted a thousand layers of snow;
The later generation will never forget the kindness of the martyrs.
The flowing water and the setting sun are a thousand hates;
The spring breeze and the setting sun are a million thoughts.
Spring returns to the earth 90 million miles of cold food rain;
Sun warms the divine state 24 times flower letter wind.
Ching Ming
Du Mu
The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival,
and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.
Where can I find a tavern?
The shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom village.
When it comes to the Qingming Festival, people with some historical knowledge will associate it with the historical figure Jie Zi Tui. According to history, in the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er, fled the country and lived a hard life, and Jie Zi Pui, who followed him, did not hesitate to cut off a piece of meat from his own leg to make him hungry. Later, when Chong Er returned to Jin and became the king of the state (i.e., Duke Wen of Jin, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period), he rewarded all of his followers for their service, but only Jie Zi Tui refused to accept the reward, and took his mother to live in Mianshan Mountain, refusing to come out.
Duke Wen of Jin had no choice but to set the mountain on fire, and thought that Jie Zi Tui, who had filial piety to his mother, would surely come out with his old mother. But the fire killed Jie Zi push's mother and son. In order to honor the memory of Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that every year on this day, fire is forbidden, and every family can only eat raw and cold food, which is the origin of the Cold Food Festival.
The Cold Food Festival is the day before the Qingming Festival. Ancient people used to continue the activities of the Cold Food Festival to Qingming, and over time, people combined the Cold Food and Qingming into one. Now, the Qingming Festival has replaced the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of worshipping Jie Zi Tui has become the custom of sweeping graves at Qingming.
Methods of Commemoration
There are many forms of commemorating ancestors on Qingming Festival:
Tomb-sweeping is one of the earliest customs of Qingming Festival, which has been extended to today and gradually simplified with the progress of society. On the day of tomb-sweeping, children and grandchildren first trim and clean up the weeds in and around the graves of their ancestors, and then make offerings of food and flowers.
As cremation has become more common, the custom of visiting the place where the ashes are placed to pay respects to the deceased has gradually replaced the practice of grave-sweeping.
Chinese Singaporeans also erected shrines for the dead in temples, which became places of worship for the ancestors during Ching Ming.
Some families also worship their ancestors at home on Ching Ming Day.
On Ching Ming Day, one may go to the gravesite of the deceased, the place where the ashes are placed, or the shrine in the temple to bow in silence.
Regardless of the form of remembrance, the most basic ritual of the Ching Ming Festival is to go to the gravesite, the place where the ashes are placed, or the shrine to memorialize the ancestors. In order to make the ritual of honoring ancestors more meaningful, we should let the younger generation of family members understand the past struggles of their ancestors.