1. Qingming Festival is a festival to remember the life that has passed, to inspire the existing life, to commemorate those around us, our close relatives who have passed away, and to thank our ancestors for giving us life. How to continue the past life through our existing life, and use the past life to inspire today's life. The significance of remembrance is not simply the thought of our loved ones, but should become a national custom and a ritual for the reproduction of a race. Our annual tomb-sweeping of our loved ones is a ceremony that is a continuation of the concept of honoring our ancestors and repaying our roots.
2. Qingming Festival is also a "festival of vitality" to welcome the vitality of nature and expand it. Nature is alive and well at the time of the Qingming Festival. Tree planting is the ancient people to expand the vitality of nature, the ancient custom of "willow to stay in spring"; trekking is to cherish the vitality of nature, to nature, embrace nature, close to nature, cuju, swinging, tug-of-war, and so on, in order to welcome the arrival of the vitality of nature.
3. The Qingming Festival incorporates the ancient Cold Food Festival. Cold food was originally a kind of nature's rhythm, coupled with humanistic spirit, the so-called humanistic spirit is that many legends and characters of China's traditional festivals, most of which are transformed from nature's festivals, from nature to the humanities, "sense of the natural rhythms into the humanistic spirit and abundance".
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Tomb Sweeping and Ancestor Sacrifice Customs
Tomb Sweeping and Ancestor Sacrifice Customs in the pre-Qin Dynasty before there was due to the pre-Qin Dynasty, North and South customs vary, customs have not yet been integrated, and some places sweeping the tombs are not necessarily in the time of the Qingming! After the Tang and Song dynasties, the Qingming Tomb Sweeping Festival began to flourish nationwide and has been passed down to the present day. The Qingming Festival has a long history. In the ancient times, the ritual of sacrificing to the ancestors in the spring was called spring stop (later known as spring ancestral temple). Wine is a must on the Qingming Festival to honor ancestors.
According to the custom, generally in the morning of the Qingming Festival set out to sweep the graves, sweeping the graves, people have to carry wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, food offerings in front of the graves of their loved ones, and then incinerate the paper money for the graves to cultivate a new soil, folding a few young green branches inserted into the graves, and then kowtow to salute the worship.