The origin of the Qingming Festival is as follows:
1. It is said to have begun in ancient times when emperors and generals "tomb sacrifice" ceremony, and then the folk also followed suit, on this day to pay tribute to their ancestors and sweep the graves, which has been inherited over the generations and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese
nation. Qingming is only the name of a festival, which became a festival to commemorate ancestors and cold food off.
2. There are many rules when sweeping the graves, people have to bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of the graves of their relatives, and then burn the paper money
incinerated, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few young green branches inserted into the graves, and then kowtow to pay homage to the worship, and finally ate the food and wine to go home.
3. Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, it is a bright spring grass green time
Session, it is also a good time for people to tread green, so the ancients have Qingming trekking, and a series of sports activities of the custom.