What is the meaning of the Qingming Festival
There are two meanings of the Qingming Festival, one is to honor our ancestors, and to be careful to catch up with the past; and the other is to go on a trekking excursion to get close to nature. Qingming Festival not only has the theme of cleaning, remembering and memorializing, but also has the theme of trekking and enjoying the body and mind, and the traditional concept of "unity of heaven and mankind" has been vividly embodied in the Qingming Festival. Through historical development, the Qingming Festival in the Tang and Song dynasties blended the customs of the Cold Food Festival and the Shangsi Festival, and mixed a variety of folklore from many places into one, with extremely rich cultural connotations.
The Qingming Festival is the most grand festival of the Chinese nation, which belongs to a kind of cultural tradition of honoring ancestors and tracing the past to the future. Qingming Festival cohesion of the national spirit, inherited the sacrificial culture of the Chinese civilization, express people respect their ancestors and ancestors, following the moral sentiment of the story. Sweeping the tomb, that is, "tomb sacrifice", said the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect", spring and autumn two sacrifices, ancient.
The Qingming Festival has a long history, originating from the ancient beliefs of ancestors and spring rituals. According to the results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of mankind are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. The "tomb sacrifice" ritual has a long historical origin, and the Qingming "tomb sacrifice" is a synthesis and sublimation of the traditional spring festival ritual. The formulation of the ancient dry calendar for the formation of the festival provides the prerequisites, ancestor beliefs and sacrificial culture is an important factor in the formation of Qingming ancestor worship rituals and customs.