The origins and customs of the Qingming Festival handbills are as follows:

One, Qingming Festival customs

The customs of the Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to preaching about forbidding fires and sweeping tombs, there are also a series of customs and sports activities, such as trekking, swinging, cu-ju, polo, willow and so on. Legend has it that this is because the Qingming Festival to cold food and fire ban, in order to prevent cold food and cold food injury, so people come to participate in a number of sports activities, in order to exercise the body. Therefore, this festival has both sweeping the new graves of the sorrowful tears of life and death, but also the laughter of trekking and playing.

Second, the Qingming Festival origin

(1) In ancient times, one or two days before the Qingming Festival, there was a "cold food festival". Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei "cold food east of the city that is the matter" said: "teenager divided into days for roaming, do not need to Qingming and on the Si." On the traditional "March 3" after the Qingming Festival, also known as the Festival, Treading Green Festival. Cold Food Festival, Ching Ming Festival, on the Si Festival is very close to the time of the three festivals, so the title of Wang Wei poem "Cold Food", the poem and wrote "Ching Ming and on the day", the three festivals and together, each other as a reference.

(2) Traditionally, the Qingming Festival, which combines the Cold Food Festival and the March 3 Festival, has a dual theme: "cleaning" and "trekking", focusing on the "landscape" at both ends of life. The two ends of the "landscape" of life, that is, "remember the ancestors, do not forget the living". Treading the green, also known as exploring spring, searching for spring. From ancient times to the present, the custom of trekking in the Qingming Festival has a long history.

Three, Qingming Festival poetry

Immediately meet the cold food, on the way to the twilight spring. I'm sorry to hear that, but I don't think I'll be able to make it to the next day," he said. The North Pole is a great place to remember the Lord, and the South Stream is a great place to be. The old garden is broken, and the willows are new every day and night.