Tomb-sweeping day is one of the 24 solar terms, also called the "cold food" festival, there are grave and the tradition of eating ai dumpling.

Tomb-sweeping day is one of the 24 solar terms, also called the "cold food" festival, there are grave and the tradition of eating ai dumpling.

This is one of the 24 solar terms, also called the "cold food" festival, there are grave and the tradition of eating ai dumpling.

This year's tomb-sweeping day rainy, seems to be a more solemn atmosphere.

This year's tomb-sweeping day rainy, seems to be a more solemn atmosphere.

One day, our whole family with sacrifices the mountain grave. Vehicles lined up at the foot of the mountain, to come to the grave, get to stretch, and the speed is slow, and the traffic police are not able to get to the grave. Vehicles lined up at the foot of the mountain, to come to the grave, get to stretch, speed is slow, and the traffic police command temporarily.

One day, our whole family with sacrifices the mountain grave. At the foot of the mountain, the vehicles coming to the grave, get to stretch, speed is slow, and the traffic police command temporarily.

Customs:

One, ancestor sweeping

Ching Ming Festival is one of the four traditional sacrificial festivals in China, is the day of ancestor worship and sweeping the tomb. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as tomb-sweeping. In Han and some ethnic minority areas, people bring fruits, food, paper money and other items to the cemetery in accordance with local customs, place the offerings in front of the cemetery, incinerate the paper money, and add some new soil to the graves.

Second, folding willow farewell

Willow is the symbol of spring, in the spring breeze swaying willow, always give a person a kind of thriving, energetic feeling. Since the Han Dynasty, people have gradually formed the custom of folding the willow to give goodbye, in order to wish each other peace, because the "willow" and "stay" resonance, so also take the meaning of the love, stay as much as possible.