Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, which falls on April 4th every year.

cultural background

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Walking Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day Festival, March Festival and Ancestor Sacrifice Festival, is a grand Spring Festival in China tradition, belonging to a traditional cultural festival that pursues the future with caution, worships ancestors and promotes filial piety.

There are many customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Due to different regional cultures, the contents or details of customs are also different. Although local customs are different, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and hiking are the same basic customs and themes. Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a solemn festival to pay homage to ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, travel and enjoy the fun of spring.

There are differences around Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the different places of sacrifice, Tomb-Sweeping Day can be divided into tomb sacrifice and ancestral temple sacrifice. Tomb sacrifice is the most common, and the Qingming Festival sacrifice is characterized by tomb sacrifice, which is mainly due to the way of tomb sacrifice. Another form is ancestral temple sacrifice, also known as temple fair sacrifice. Sacrifice at temple fairs is a clan gathering, which is called "Tomb-Sweeping Day" or "Eating Tomb-Sweeping Day" in some places.

Tomb-Sweeping Day worships his ancestors. According to the custom, people usually set out to visit graves in the morning in Tomb-Sweeping Day. When sweeping graves, people should bring wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their ancestors, then burn the paper money to cultivate new soil for the graves, or break some fresh branches and insert them in front of the graves, and then kowtow to worship.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Tomb-Sweeping Day Customs