In the development of history, there are constantly celebrities associated with the Qingming Festival, which reflects the importance of the Qingming Festival in history, but also an important form of adding the connotation of the Qingming Festival. The following small editor for you to organize the origin of the Qingming Festival and the legend of the story 50 words, I hope you like it!
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The origin of Qingming Festival< /p>
Chingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China. Since the 24 solar terms reflect the changes in temperature, rainfall, and physical climate throughout the year, the ancient working people used it to organize their agricultural activities. Huainanzi (淮南子). Tianwenxun" said, "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, the bucket points to B, then the wind of Qingming arrives." According to the "time of the year and a hundred questions": "Everything grows at this time, are clean and clear. Therefore, it is called Qingming." Qingming, the temperature rises, the rainfall increases, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting. Therefore, there are "before and after the Qingming, point melon planting beans", "planting trees and forests, not over the Qingming" of the farmers' proverbs. It can be seen that this festival has a close relationship with agricultural production.
But, as a festival, Qingming is different from a pure festival. The festival is a sign of changes in climate and the order of the seasons in China, while the festival contains certain customs and commemorative significance.
The Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, and the most important festival of worship, a day for offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping tombs. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the graves, an activity to honor the dead. Most Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on Qingming Day.
According to the old custom, when sweeping tombs, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the graveyard, offer the food in front of their loved ones' graves, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few young green branches and stick them on the graves, and then kowtow and worship, and then eat the wine and food and go home at last. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem called "Qingming": "The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy points to the apricot blossom village." It writes the `special atmosphere of Qingming Festival.
The 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 the time when the grass and trees spit green in the bright and beautiful spring, and it is also the good time for people to go on spring trips (called Treading Green in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of trekking on the Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.
Till today, the Qingming Festival to pay homage to ancestors, mourning the deceased relatives of the custom is still very prevalent.
The Legend of Qingming Festival
Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the consort of Duke Xian of Jin, Li Ji, set up a poisonous plan to murder the crown prince Shen Sheng in order to let her son Xi Qi succeed the throne, and Shen Sheng was forced to commit suicide. Shen Sheng's younger brother, Chong Er, went into exile to escape the disaster. While in exile, Chong Er suffered a lot of humiliation. Most of the ministers who followed him went their own way one after another. There were only a few loyal men left who followed him all the way. One of them was called Jie Zi Tui (介子推). Once, Chong Er passed out from hunger. In order to save Chong Er, Jie Zi Pui cut off a piece of meat from his own leg, cooked it over a fire and gave it to Chong Er to eat. Nineteen years later, Chong Er returned to his country and became the ruler, Duke Wen of Jin, one of the famous Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period.
When Duke Wen of Jin came to power, he rewarded those who had suffered with him, but he forgot about Jie Zi Tui. Some people complained for Jie Zi Tui in front of Duke Wen of Jin. Duke Wen of Jin suddenly remembered the old story, the heart of shame, immediately sent to ask the mesoteric pushes on the court to be rewarded by the official. However, after several trips, Jie Zi Tui did not come. Duke Wen of Jin had to go in person to invite. However, when Duke Wen came to Jie Zi Tui's house, he saw that the door was closed. Jie Zi Tui did not want to see him, and had already carried his mother to hide in Mianshan Mountain (southeast of present-day Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province). Duke Wen of Jin had his imperial army search the Mian Mountain, but they did not find him. So, someone had an idea that it would be better to set fire to the mountain, lighting fires on three sides and leaving one side behind, so that when the fire started, Jie Zi Tui would come out on his own. Duke Wen of Jin ordered the fire to burn the mountain, but the fire burned for three days and three nights, after the fire was extinguished, did not see Kai Zi push out. Up the mountain to see, jiezi push mother and son holding a big charred willow tree has died. Duke Wen of Jin looked at the body of the mesquite push to cry and worship for a while, and then buried the remains, and found that the mesquite push spine blocked a willow tree hole, the hole seems to have something.
Cutting out the flesh and serving the king, I wish my lord would always be clear.
It is better to be a ghost under the willow than to be an advisor to the king.
If you have me in your heart, you will always think of yourself when you remember me.
If I am not ashamed of myself in the nine springs, I will be diligent and clear in my administration.
Duke Wen of Jin hid the bloody book in his sleeve. Then he buried Jie Zi Tui and his mother under the charred willow tree. To honor Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that Mian Shan be changed to "Jie Shan", built a shrine on the mountain, and designated the day the mountain was set on fire as the Cold Food Festival, telling the whole country to abstain from fireworks and to eat only cold food on this day every year.
When he left, he cut down a section of burnt willow wood and made a pair of wooden clogs in the palace, looking at them every day and sighing, "Woe is the foot." "This is said to have been the origin of the ancient term of respect used by subordinates for their superiors or peers.
The next year, the Duke of Jin led a group of ministers on a hike in plain clothes to pay homage and express their condolences. When he arrived at the grave, he saw the old willow tree come back to life, with thousands of green branches dancing in the wind. Duke Wen of Jin looked at the resurrected old willow tree and saw it as if he had seen Jie Zi Tui. He went to it respectfully, pinched a branch and wove a circle on his head. After the ceremony, the Duke of Jin gave the name "Qingming Willow" to the resurrected old willow tree, and designated this day as the Qingming Festival.
Afterward, Duke Wen of Jin often put the bloody book on his side, as a motto to spur himself to rule. He was diligent and clear, and he managed the country well.
Since then, the people of Jin have been able to live and work in peace and contentment, and they miss Jie Zi Tui very much. On the day of his death, people banned fireworks to commemorate him. Also with flour and jujube clay, pinched into a swallow, with willow string up, inserted in the door, to summon his soul, this thing is called "the push Yan" (jiezitui also known as jiezhitui). Since then, the cold food, Qingming became a national people's grand festivals. Whenever cold food, people do not make fire to cook, only eat cold food. In the north, the people only eat pre-made cold food such as jujube cake, wheat cake, etc.; in the south, it is more for the green dough and glutinous rice sugar lotus root. Every Qingming, people weave willow into a circle to wear on the head, the willow branches inserted in front of the house, in order to show remembrance.
What is the time to sweep the graves of Qingming
1. Generally between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. can be, different customs around the world, and not the earlier the better.
2. 9 a.m. to about 11 a.m. is the most crowded, people driving their own cars can avoid the peak traffic hours, staggered travel.
3. Tomb-sweeping doesn't have to be done in the morning, but usually between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. is fine.
Tomb-sweeping time in the Qingming Festival should keep in mind that it is good to go in full sunlight, not to go in the evening, the best choice of time is after 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. between. When sweeping the graves, you should concentrate, do not look around, do not look at other graves and trample on other graves, or comment on other graves, and it is not appropriate to take photos in the cemetery.