Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship are the most important customs during the Qingming Festival, and every year, many families outside the Qingming Festival will go home to carry out tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship customary activities, in addition to trekking, swinging, kite-flying, tree-planting, willow-planting and other customs. The following is a detailed understanding of the relevant customs during the Qingming period it ~ ~

Customs of the Qingming Festival

1, sweeping the tomb ancestor. The Qingming Festival is a cultural tradition of honoring ancestors and tracing the past to the present. It can be said that sweeping the tomb sacrifice is the core of the Qingming Festival, which is the Qingming Festival until now are still recognized by the significance of the Chinese since ancient times has advocated the concept of "family", after all, our concept of family is relatively heavy, for the dead people are also very important, in the Qingming Festival this day for the ancestral grave to get rid of weeds, add new soil, is the deceased ancestors of a kind of remembrance. It is a kind of remembrance for the deceased ancestors.

2, eat green dumplings. The Jiangnan area has the custom of eating green dumplings during the Qingming Festival. Green dumplings green as jade, fragrant, eat sweet but not greasy, fat but not fat, green dumplings or people in the southern part of the country used to worship ancestors of the necessary food, because of this, the green dumplings in the folklore of the southern part of the country is particularly important.

3, trekking. Trekking is also called spring tour, the ancient called spring, spring, etc., March clearing, spring, nature everywhere presents a vibrant scene, it is a great time for excursions, our country folk have long maintained the Qingming trekking habits.

4, kite flying. Kites, also known as "paper kites", "kite", kite flying is a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. Kites are made of bamboo gabions with paper or silk pasted on the skeleton, pulling the long line tied to it, and taking advantage of the wind to fly into the sky, belonging to a kind of purely aerodynamic flying machine. During the Qingming Festival, people not only release it during the day, but also release it at night to symbolize the release of all the bad and unfair things.

5, swinging. In fact, the swing in the beginning is not called swing, but called thousand, but later renamed as swing, which is one of the most prevalent activities of the ancient Qingming Festival, has been handed down to the present day is a very popular recreational activities.

6, tug of war. Tug-of-war activities in fact, the earliest is not in the folk prevalent activities, in ancient times this is a military competition, with which to exercise the quality of military personnel, but wait until the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Xuanzong looked at this activity is quite interesting, so in the Qingming began to organize large-scale tug-of-war competitions, from then on, tug-of-war activities began to be popular in the civil world, especially in the various enterprises, schools and other organizations will be held during the Qingming Festival! Tug-of-war activities.

7, willow. In the folk, the Qingming Festival has the custom of willow, about this custom, there are three sayings in folklore, one of the more God a little bit of the saying is said to be Guanyin Goddess of Mercy's jade vase is inserted in the willow, so people think that the willow branch has the role of driving away the evil spirits, so in the Qingming Festival on this day will be inserted willow.

8, cuju. This is the earliest soccer activity in China, the origin can be traced back to the Warring States period. Cuju means an ancient leather ball with a surface made of leather and stuffed with feathers. Cuju is a very popular game activity during the Qingming Festival in ancient times, and by the Han Dynasty, cuju had become a very specialized sport with relatively sound rules for the game.

The above are some of the common customs of the Qingming Festival~~

Origin of the Qingming Festival

The origin of the Qingming Festival is said to have begun in ancient times with the rituals of the tomb of the emperors and prime ministers, and then the folk also followed suit on the day of the ancestor sweeping the graves, which has been inherited over the generations and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival were two different festivals, but in the Tang Dynasty, the day of tomb-sweeping was designated as the Cold Food Festival. The correct day for the Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, around the time of the Qingming Festival, and because of the similarity of the two days, the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival were combined into one day."

The Story of Qingming Festival Legend - In Memory of Jie Zi Pui

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Chong Er of Jin was in exile, and when he fainted from hunger on the way, his minister, Jie Zi Pui, cut off the flesh of his thigh for him to eat. Later, Duke Chong Er became Duke Wen of Jin, and rewarded his loyal ministers forgetting about Jie Zi Pui. When Chong Er remembered him, Jie Zi Tui did not want to be an official anymore, and hid in Mian Mountain behind his mother's back. Chong Er set fire to the mountain to force him to come out of the mountain, but the fire burned for three days and no one came out, so he went up the mountain to look for him and found that he and his mother had been burned to death. On the charred willow tree, there was a poem with blood on the lapel of his coat: "I cut my flesh to serve the king with all my heart, but I wish my lord would always be clear". So Chong Er designated the day he set fire to the mountain as the Cold Food Festival. On the next day of the next year, Chong Er climbed the mountain to pay homage to Jie Zi Tui and found that the old willow tree had come back to life, so he gave it the name "Qingming Willow" and designated it as the Qingming Festival to pay homage to Jie Zi Tui.

The above is about some of the customs of the Qingming Festival, the source, as well as the story of the legend of the knowledge of the introduction, I hope to help you Oh ~ ~ ~