The main activities of the Qingming Festival include tomb-sweeping, trekking, kite-flying, tug-of-war and tree-planting.

1. Tomb-sweeping

Historically in China, fire was forbidden on cold days to commemorate ancestors, and tomb-sweeping and ancestor-sacrifice on the Ching Ming Festival became a customary tradition that has continued ever since. To this day, people still have the custom of visiting the graves and paying tribute to their ancestors around the Qingming Festival to send their remembrances to their ancestors.

2, trekking

Trekking is also known as the spring tour, the ancient called the spring, spring and so on. Qingming season, spring back to the earth, the natural world everywhere present a vibrant scene, it is a great time for excursions. China's folk long maintained the Qingming trekking habit.

3, kite flying

Ching Ming kite flying is a popular custom. In the eyes of ancient people, kite-flying is not only a kind of amusement activity, but also a kind of witchcraft behavior: they believed that kite-flying can let go of one's own dirty gas.

So many people flew kites during the Qingming Festival, wrote all the calamities and diseases they knew on the paper kite, and when the kite flew high, they cut the kite string and let the paper kite float away with the wind, symbolizing that they let their own diseases and filthiness go away with the kite, and brought good luck to themselves.

4, tug-of-war

Early called "pulling hooks", "hooks strong", the Tang Dynasty began to call "tug-of-war". It was invented in the late Spring and Autumn period, began to prevail in the military, and later spread to the people. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty held a large-scale tug-of-war competition on the Qingming Festival. Since then, tug-of-war has become part of the Qingming custom.

5, tree planting

Before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines and the spring rain falls, planting saplings has a high survival rate and grows fast. Therefore, since ancient times, China has the Qingming tree planting habits, tree planting customs have been passed down to the present day.