Zhou Runan, an anthropologist at Sun Yat-sen University, said that Qingming is not only a day to worship ancestors, but also a festive festival. Since Tomb-Sweeping Day, the temperature has turned warmer and everything is full of vitality. Since the Tang Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day has been combined with tourism. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Tomb-Sweeping Day had two major themes: First, sweeping graves; The second is an outing.

Today, the annual Qingming small holiday is also a good opportunity for people to go out for an outing, and urban young people take advantage of the rare holiday to travel happily. Therefore, Tomb-Sweeping Day can say that Tomb-Sweeping Day is happy.

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The origin story of Tomb-Sweeping Day:

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er was exiled and humiliated. Once he was so hungry that the loyal minister Jiezi pushed him to cut off his thigh and cook it for Zhong Er. Ten years later, Zhong Er returned to the State of Jin, namely Jin Wengong, one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. But when rewarding loyal ministers, he only forgot to push mesons. Later, he was reminded that Jin Wengong felt guilty and sent someone to ask meson to take him to court as a reward.

Meson refused to push, preferring to hide in the mountains behind his mother's back. Jin Wengong sent people up the mountain to search but found nothing. It was suggested that Yamakaji push the meson out, but the meson push did not go down the mountain, but was burned to death with his mother in his arms. Jin Wengong, in tears, ordered a ban on fire and cold food on this day, that is, the Cold Food Festival. On the second day after the cold food, the mourning ceremony spread to Tomb-Sweeping Day.

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