The Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four festivals in our country, but also an important holiday, the following is what I have carefully organized for you Qingming Festival customs, I hope to help you.

Customs of the Qingming Festival

One, sweeping tombs and sacrificing to ancestors

China's history, the cold food ban on fire, to pay tribute to ancestors, Qingming Festival sweeping tombs and sacrificing to ancestors has become a customary tradition that has continued since then. Even in today's society, people still have the custom of visiting the graves around the Ching Ming Festival to pay tribute to their ancestors: shoveling out weeds, putting up offerings, offering incense and prayers in front of the graves, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bouquet of flowers, in order to express their nostalgia for their ancestors.

Two, swinging

This is China's ancient Qingming Festival customs. Swinging, that is, grabbing the leather rope and migrate. Its history is very ancient, the earliest called the thousand autumn, after in order to avoid taboo, changed to swing. Ancient swing with branches for the frame, and then tied to the ribbon made. Later gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Swinging can not only improve health, but also cultivate the spirit of bravery, and is still loved by people, especially children.

Three, cuju

Cuju's history is also along the long, very popular in the Tang and Song dynasties, until after the Ming and Qing Dynasties gradually declined. Cuju is rumored to have been invented by the Yellow Emperor, probably related to the legacy of ancient war activities. The specific method of playing is to use leather to accommodate hair or stuffed cereal grass and other things sewn together. It is said that during the Tang Dynasty, inflatable balls appeared, and there were already "two bamboo plants and a net on top" of the goal. Whether from the production of cuju, or the form of kicking the ball, and today's soccer have some similarity!

Cuju is said to have been very popular in the Han Dynasty, and after the Tang Dynasty, the Qingming Festival was a comprehensive folk festival with a number of official group recreational activities, in which cuju was included. However, by the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were very few opportunities for such group activities, and cuju became less popular.

Four, Shooting Willow

Shooting Willow is a game to practice archery skills. According to the Ming Dynasty, it is to put pigeons in the gourd, and then hang the gourd high in the willow tree, bend the bow and shoot the gourd, the pigeons fly out, and the height of the pigeons fly to determine the winner.

Five, cockfighting

Chinese cockfighting custom originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals" recorded: Ji Pingzi and the MP Zhaobo two aristocrats cockfighting. Ji Ping Zi put mustard on the chicken wings, while Hou Zhaobo bound metal hooks to the chicken's claws.

The custom of cockfighting at Ching Ming is related to the establishment of the Ching Ming Festival during the Tang Dynasty, before which there was no mention of Ching Ming Festival. In ancient times, there was the Shangshi Festival, which was associated with witchcraft and excursions, and the Cold Food Festival, which was associated with remembrance and thanksgiving. The two were not related to Qingming, but during the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the three were merged into one large, comprehensive festival, known as the Qingming Festival.

The Qingming Festival was so rich in elements that it eventually became a big festival celebrated by all. When the festival came, not only did the folk celebrate it, but the officials also organized entertainment. So there are many popular folk activities, such as swinging, cuju, shooting willow and cockfighting, all transplanted to the festival in one head. It was a great way for people to celebrate their ancestors and have a good time while doing so.

The origin of the Qingming Festival

The traditional Qingming Festival in China began in the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago. 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 to (cold food for the day before the Qingming), and cold food is the day of the folk ban on fire sweeping the tomb, gradually, cold food and the Qingming on the merger of the Qingming, and the cold food has become an alias of the Qingming, but also into the Qingming festival of a folklore, the day of the Qingming does not move the fireworks, only to eat the cool food.

The Qingming Festival is the best carrier of the traditional Chinese ethic of "all good deeds and filial piety first", which embodies the traditional Chinese culture of filial piety. As an important day for family rituals and tomb-sweeping, Qingming is an annual festival for Chinese people to express their respect and gratitude to their ancestors, and it is one of the most important manifestations of Chinese filial piety, which is called by many as China's Thanksgiving Day.