The Qingming Festival originated from the spring festival in the ancient times, and the belief in ancestors and the culture of sacrifice are important factors in the formation of the Qingming Festival.

The Qingming Festival has two major connotations, the Qingming Festival in time and meteorological and physical characteristics of the formation of the Qingming Festival provides an important condition. The Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four specific festivals that represent seasonal changes in the ancient dry-branch calendar, and this time of the year, the old and the new, the vitality is strong, the temperature rises, and everything is clean, the earth presents the image of spring and the landscape, it is the countryside trekking and the line of the good time of the Qingming.

The culture of Qingming rituals and customs fully embodies the ancestors of the Chinese people in pursuit of "heaven, earth, people" harmony and unity, pay attention to conform to the time and place, follow the laws of nature's thinking. The traditional concept of "unity of heaven and man" is vividly reflected in the Qingming Festival. Through the evolution of historical development, the Qingming Festival has blended the customs of the Cold Food Festival and the Shangsi Festival, and mixed a variety of folklore into one, with extremely rich cultural connotations.

The Qingming Festival absorbed the fire ban and cold food custom of the Cold Food Festival in its historical development. Legend has it that the Cold Food Festival was established in the Spring and Autumn Period to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, a loyal and righteous minister of the State of Jin. In folklore, although the Cold Food Festival is related to jiezi push, but the origin of the cold food, not to commemorate the jiezi push, but inherited the ancient custom of changing the fire.