Pinyin: tà qīng Definition: Also known as "Ta Qing".

It is a custom to visit the countryside around Qingming Festival.

In the old days, Qingming Festival was regarded as an outing festival.

Example: Tang Meng Haoran's "A Trip to the Embankment": "Spring grass grows every year, and outings take place in February and March." Yuan Yang Yunfu's "Miscellaneous Odes of Luanjing": "The tall willows are not enough for passers-by, but the good flowers are reserved for those who are young." Yun Yun of the Qing Dynasty "Reading"

"Weicaotang Notes·Huaixi Magazine 1": "I went to the tomb during the Qingming Festival and saw wandering girls dancing." Rou Shi's "February" 22: "We might as well have an outing trip." [Edit this paragraph] Overview

Outing is also called spring outing, exploring spring, and seeking spring.

In the spring when the flowers and plants turn green, they go hiking in the countryside together and play various games, Cuju, swinging, flying kites and other activities.

The custom of outing in China has a long history. It is said that it was formed as far back as the pre-Qin Dynasty, and it is also said that it began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

According to the "Book of Jin": Every spring, people go to the countryside together to enjoy the scenery, which was especially popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

According to the "Old Book of Tang Dynasty": "At Renwu in February of the second year of the Dali calendar, I was lucky enough to have an outing in Kunming Lake." It can be seen that the custom of outings has long been popular.

In the Song Dynasty, outing became popular.

The genre painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" by the Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan vividly depicts the lively scene of the Qingming Festival centered on the Bianhe River outside Bianjing.

In this scroll, there are more than 550 people, more than 50 livestock, more than 20 boats, and more than 20 cars and sedans.

The grand occasion of the Qingming Festival outing can be seen.

Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once recorded the grand scene of the royal spring outing, "On March 3rd, the world is new, and there are many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an." Over thousands of years, outing has gradually become a ritual. "There is no recreation in spring, but

I'm afraid I'm a fool." Bai Juyi's poem "Spring Outing" is a reflection of this state of mind.

[Edit this paragraph] Although outing is customary in the spring of the year, the specific time varies from day to day.

Feng Yingjing in the Ming Dynasty, Fei Zhu in the Yuan Dynasty, and Li Nao in the Tang Dynasty respectively specified in their articles that the outing season was the eighth day of the first lunar month, the second day of February, and the third day of March.

On the second day of the second lunar month, people went out of the city to collect leaves and prepare firecrackers to celebrate the birthday of the land god.

Later, due to the tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival, the spring was bright, the grass and trees turned green, and the fields were bright and fragrant.

Grave sweepers often "stop crying and never return, and instead go to the fragrant trees, choose a garden, and sit in rows to get drunk." It has evolved from a simple sacrificial activity to a spring outing to visit scenic spots at the same time.

Wu Weixin, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said in his poem: "The pear blossom wind blows in the Qingming Festival, and the wanderers are half out of the city in search of spring. The tombs are cleared away, and the tens of thousands of willow trees belong to the wandering orioles." The grand occasion of the spring outing at that time, from day to dusk, with music and songs like crazy, can be described as

Describe it vividly.

It’s the Qingming time when spring is warm and flowers are blooming.

During this season, they travel in groups to pay homage to their ancestors and feel the breath of spring.

Swinging, flying kites, tug-of-war, cockfighting, wearing willows, fighting grass, playing ball, etc. in the countryside, my mood was so free that I didn't want to turn back, and happiness gradually overflowed from my face to my heart.

Swinging In ancient times, there was a custom of swinging during Qingming Festival.

Both the ancient characters "swing" and "swing" have the word "leather" next to them, and the character "qianzhi" means "moving away" by holding on to the leather rope.

As early as ancient times, people created the activity of swinging during climbing in order to obtain food from high places.

It was first called "Qianqiu".

Legend has it that it was created by the Shanrong people in the north during the Spring and Autumn Period.

It starts with just a rope, grasping the rope with both hands and swinging.

Later, Duke Heng of Qi conquered the Shanrong tribe in the north and brought "Qianqiu" into the Central Plains.

By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the palace used the word "Qianqiu" as a birthday wish, taking the meaning of "Qianqiu Wanshou". Later, to avoid taboos, the word "Qianqiu" was reversed to "Swing".

Later it gradually evolved into a swing with two ropes and pedals.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, swings became a game exclusively for women to practice agility and strength.

When playing on the swing, people swing back and forth in the air, as if they are flying, which is very interesting.

"The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao" records: "On the Cold Food Festival, swings were erected in the palace, which made the concubines laugh and thought it was a feast. The emperor called it a play for half-immortals." There are many stories about swings in the works of literati in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

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Wei Zhuang, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Chang'an Qingming": "The purple streets are hissing and red, and the high green poplars reflect the swings." When the spring breeze of the Qingming Festival blows the willows, the girls swing in groups under the trees in the countryside, which is indeed full of excitement.

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Swinging was a very common game at that time. Li Qingzhao, a female poet in the Song Dynasty, often described it in her poems: "After playing on the swing, I get up and adjust my slender hands. The dew is thick and the flowers are thin, and the sweat is thin and the clothes are light." ("Dian Jiang Lip")

) Folks like to use bamboos to set up a temporary "bamboo shoot swing" in the suburbs during the Qingming outing season for dancing and playing.

Because swings are seen everywhere during Qingming Festival, some people call it "Swing Festival".

Flying a kite is a favorite game played by people before the Qingming Festival.

Kite has a history of more than 2,000 years in my car.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a Gongshu Ban, the mythical "Lu Ban", who could make wooden kites and cut bamboos into magpies, and then fly them without falling for three days.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Liang Zhengwu was besieged by Hou Jing's rebels in Taicheng. Minister Yang Kan used a kite to tie an imperial edict to attract reinforcements to rescue him.

The initial function of the kite was just a tool for conveying messages in the military, and later it gradually evolved into an entertainment toy.

Kite Flying The poet Gao Pian of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem "Kite": "The sound of strings echoes in the still night in the blue sky, and the palace merchants trust the incoming wind; it is only audible that it is vaguely like music, and it is blown by the wind to a different tune." The real name of the kite

, "Xuncu Lu" records: Kite, that is, paper kite, also known as wind kite.