Customs of the Qingming Festival include: trekking, planting trees, flying kites, sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, and tug-of-war.

1, trekking

Since ancient times, there has been the custom of trekking in the Qingming Festival, trekking in the Qingming Festival, this seasonal folk activities, in China has a long history, its source is the ancient farming rituals to welcome the spring customs, this farming rituals to welcome the spring customs on the later generations of far-reaching influence. The Qingming Festival has two major connotations: the Qingming Festival and the festival. The Qingming Festival provides important conditions for the formation of the Qingming Treading Customs in terms of time and meteorological and physical characteristics. Qingming Festival, spring back to the earth, the natural world everywhere presents a vibrant scene, is a great time for excursions.

2, tree planting

Before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines, the spring rain sprinkles, planting saplings with a high survival rate, fast growth. Therefore, there is a Qingming tree planting custom, some people also called the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day". The custom of tree planting has been passed down to this day. The custom of planting trees on Qingming Day is said to have begun with the custom of wearing willows and inserting willows on Qingming Day.

3, flying kites

Kites, also known as "paper kites", "kites", kite flying is a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. Kites are made of paper or silk on a skeleton made of bamboo gabions and pulled by a long line tied to it, and can be flown into the sky while the wind is blowing, belonging to a kind of flying machine that utilizes aerodynamic power alone. It is a popular custom to fly kites at Qingming.

4, tomb-sweeping ancestor

Tomb-sweeping ancestor custom has a long history, before the pre-Qin Dynasty, due to the ancient north and south of the customs are different, some places to sweep the tomb is not necessarily on the occasion of the Qingming. Before the Tang Dynasty, some areas in the north of the tomb sweeping mainly in the cold food festival and cold clothes festival, to the Tang and Song dynasty after the Qingming tomb sweeping began to prevail in the country, the Tang Dynasty is the fusion of the customs of the tomb sacrifice period, inherited the customs of the Qingming Tomb Sacrifice, and expanded to all parts of the country.

5, tug-of-war

Tug-of-war early called "pulling the hook", "hook strong", the Tang Dynasty began to call "tug-of-war". It is said to have been invented in the late Spring and Autumn period, began to prevail in the military, and later spread to the people. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty held a large-scale tug-of-war at Qingming, and since then, tug-of-war has become part of the Qingming custom.