Ching Ming, is the twenty-four solar terms in the fifth solar term, but also the beginning of the dry calendar eons; Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is in the annual April 4 to 6, it is the spring bright and beautiful grass and trees spit green season, but also is the people of the spring tour [ancient called trekking] a good time, so the ancients have the Qingming trekking, and to carry out a series of physical activities. The custom of the ancient people is to carry out a series of sports activities during the Qingming Festival.

1, sweeping

Tomb sweeping, that is, "tomb sacrifice", said the ancestors of the "think of the time of respect", ancestor worship is the way to remember the ancestors, its custom has a long history. The custom has a long history. The Qingming Festival is a cultural tradition of honoring ancestors and paying careful attention to the ancestors, expressing the filial piety of the worshippers and their nostalgia for the ancestors.

Tomb-sweeping, which was originally a custom of cold food on the day before Ching Ming (or three days before), was gradually merged with Ching Ming since the Tang Dynasty, and became a custom of the Ching Ming Festival, which is called "thinking about the time of respect" for ancestors.

2, trekking

The Chinese people since ancient times, the custom of trekking. Treading on the green ancient called spring, searching for spring, etc., that is, spring excursions, also known as "spring". Generally refers to the early spring to the countryside to walk and play. Treading the green this kind of seasonal folk activities, in China has a long history, its source is the ancient farming sacrifices to welcome the spring custom, this farming sacrifices to welcome the spring custom has a profound influence on the later generations. The Qingming Festival has two major connotations, namely, the Qingming Festival in terms of time and meteorological and physical characteristics, which provides important conditions for the formation of the Qingming Treading Customs. Qingming Festival, spring back to the earth, nature everywhere presents a vibrant scene, is a great time for excursions. People are because of the benefit of the convenience, but also a family of young and old in the mountains and countryside between the wild play some.

3, kite flying

Kites, also known as "paper kites", "kites", kite flying is a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. During the Qingming Festival, people not only fly kites during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of small colorful lanterns are hung under the kite or on the wind steady pulling line, like flickering stars, which are called "divine lanterns". In the past, some people put the kite on the blue sky, then cut the line, let the wind send them to the end of the world, it is said that this can get rid of diseases and bring good luck to themselves.

4, tree planting

Ching Ming before and after the spring sunshine, spring rain, 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 Qingming Day is said to have begun with the custom of wearing willow on Qingming.

5, willow

It is said that the custom of willow is also to commemorate the "teach the people to harvest" of the agricultural ancestor Shennong. In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to forecast the weather. Qingming willow wear willow there is a saying: the original Chinese people to Qingming, July half and October solstice for the three major ghosts, is a hundred ghosts out of the time to ask for, people to prevent ghosts of the persecution of the infestation, and willow wear willow. Qingming is a ghost festival, the willow sprouting season, people have naturally inserted willow wear willow to ward off evil spirits.

6, swinging

Swinging is one of the ancient Chinese Qingming Festival customs. The history of swinging is very old, the earliest called the thousand autumn, and then in order to avoid taboos, changed to swing. In ancient times, swings were made of tree branches and then tied with colorful ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and a pedal. Swinging can not only improve health, but also cultivate the spirit of bravery, and is still loved by people, especially children.

7, Cuju

Ju is a kind of leather ball, the ball skin made of leather, the ball with the 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 its original purpose was to train warriors. Polo was also played around the Temple of Heaven in the Qing Dynasty until it disappeared after the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

8, Silkworm flower will

"Silkworm flower will be" is a unique folk culture, the past during the Ching Ming Festival, Wutong, Wuzhen, Chongfu, Chauquan and other places have this folk activity. Among them to Chauquan's Maming Temple and Qingshi's double temple of silkworms will be the most exciting and grand. Maming Temple is located in Chauquan town west, in the local "king of the temple" said, every year silkworms will be a sea of people, frequent activities, there are welcome silkworm god, shake the fast boat, haunted the pavilion, worship incense stool, boxing, dragon lanterns, warping Gorgon, singing opera and other more than a dozen activities. Some of these activities are carried out on the shore, and the vast majority of them are carried out on the boat, which is very characteristic of the water town.

Qingming, Qingqingming, idyllic good scenery, that is to say, since the Qingming Festival, people will come out of the cold shadow of winter, into the world of spring blossoms.