Customs of the Qingming Festival include trekking, planting trees, flying kites, sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, planting willows, tug-of-war, swinging on swings, cockfighting, shooting willows, and cuju.
1, trekking
Chinese people since ancient times have Qingming trekking custom. Qingming Festival in the middle of spring and late spring at the intersection of spring, spring has been thick, everything is full of vitality. It is a traditional custom inherited from ancient times and still practiced today to sweep the graves and worship ancestors and go on excursions.
2, planting trees?
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 the 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 the Qingming Festival is said to have begun with the custom of wearing willow on the Qingming Festival.
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 they are pulled by a long line tied to it, and can be flown into the sky while the wind is blowing, which belongs to a kind of flying machine that utilizes aerodynamic power alone.
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 tomb-sweeping is not necessarily in the time of the Qingming.
5, willow
Ching Ming Festival, Chinese folk custom of willow. The Tang people believed that wearing willow branches on the head could get rid of the harm of poisonous insects when offering sacrifices by the river on March 3rd. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the custom of sticking willows on Qingming Day was very popular, and people came back from playing and traveling, sticking willows in front of their homes to avoid insect epidemics.
6, tug-of-war
Tug-of-war early called "pulling hooks", "hooks strong", the Tang Dynasty began to call "tug-of-war". It is said to have been invented in the late Spring and Autumn period. It is said that it was invented in the late Spring and Autumn period, began to prevail in the military, and later spread to the people. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, a large-scale tug-of-war competition was held at the time of the Qingming Festival, and since then, tug-of-war has become a part of the Qingming Festival customs.
7, swinging
Swinging is one of the customs of Qingming Festival in ancient China. The fifth generation Wang Renyu "Kaiyuan tianbao legacy" contained "tianbao palace to cold food festival even erected swing, so that the palace concubines generation play and laugh as a feast.
8, cockfighting
Cockfighting games were held in ancient Qingming, cockfighting by the beginning of Qingming, fighting to the summer solstice. China's earliest record of cockfighting, see "Zuo Zhuan". In the Tang Dynasty, cockfighting became a trend, not only the civil cockfighting, even the emperor also participated in cockfighting. For example, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty loved cockfighting.
9, shooting willow
Shooting willow is a game to practice archery skills. According to the Ming Dynasty, it is to put pigeons in the gourd, and then hang the gourd high in the willow tree, bend the bow and shoot the gourd, the pigeons fly out, and the height of the pigeons fly to determine the winner.
10, cuju
Ju is a leather ball, ball skin made of leather, the ball with hair stuffed tight. Cuju, is to use the foot to kick the ball. This is an ancient Qingming Festival in the north favorite game. It is also said to have been invented by the Yellow Emperor, and was originally intended to be used to train warriors. Polo, is riding on a horse, holding a stick to play the ball, the ancient name of bow.