The origin and introduction of the Qingming Festival is brief

The origin and introduction of the Qingming Festival is brief, the Qingming Festival has a long history, is China's grand grand ancestor festival, originated from the ancient times of the spring festival activities, is to promote filial piety of a cultural and traditional festivals. Here to see about the origin of Qingming Festival and a short introduction.

The origin of Qingming Festival and the introduction of a short 1

"Qingming" is only the name of the earliest festival, which turned into a festival to commemorate the ancestors and the cold food festival. The day after the Cold Food Festival was designated as the Qingming Festival by the Duke of Jin. In most areas of Shanxi, the Cold Food Festival is celebrated one day before the Qingming Festival. In a few places such as Yushe County, the Cold Food Festival is celebrated two days before the Qingming Festival. Yuanqu County also preaches that the day before the Qingming Festival for the Cold Food Festival, the first two days for the small cold food.

Qingming Festival is one of China's important "eight festivals in the year", generally around April 5 in the calendar, the festival is very long, there are 10 days before the 8th and 10 days before the 10th after two kinds of statements, which is nearly 20 days within the Qingming Festival. Qingming Festival originally refers to the fifteen days after the vernal equinox, in 1935, the Republic of China government explicitly set April 5 as a national holiday Qingming Festival, also called the National Tomb Sweeping Festival.

Qingming Festival, also known as Treading Green Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, the 108th day after the winter solstice. It is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important festivals for ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping. The traditional Chinese Han Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago.

Influenced by the Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, including Manchu, Herzhe, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing, and Qiang, also have the custom of celebrating Qingming Festival. Although customs vary from place to place, tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship, trekking and picnicking are the basic themes.

"Almanac": "fifteen days after the spring equinox, the bucket refers to Ding, for the Qingming, when everything is clean and clear, cover when the gas is clear and bright, all things are obvious, so named." Qingming, the temperature rises, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting, so there is a "Qingming before and after, planting melon point bean" said.

The origin of Qingming Festival, according to legend, began in ancient times, the emperor and generals "tomb sacrifice" of the ceremony, and then the folk also follow suit, in this day to ancestral tomb, and has been inherited and become a fixed custom of the Chinese people. 2006 May 20, approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Ancient history of Qingming Festival

When it comes to the Qingming Festival, people who know a little bit of history will associate it with the historical figure "Jie Zi Tui". According to ancient history, more than 2,000 years ago, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er, fled the country and lived a hard life, and Jie Zi Pui, who followed him, did not hesitate to cut off a piece of meat from his own leg to make him hungry.

Later, when Chong Er returned to Jin and became the king of the state (Duke Wen of Jin, one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period), he rewarded all his followers for their hard lives, but only Jie Zi Pui refused to accept the reward, and took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan Mountain, refusing to come out.

The Duke of Jin had no choice but to set fire to the mountain, thinking that Jie Zi Tui was filial to his mother and would surely bring her out. But the fire killed Jie Zi push's mother and son. In order to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that every year on this day, the prohibition of fire, families can only eat raw and cold food, which is the source of the Cold Food Festival, is also the origin of the Qingming Festival.

Legend has it that it began in ancient times, the emperor and generals "tomb sacrifice" of the ceremony, and then the folk also follow each other, in this day of ancestor sweeping the tomb, and over time, the generations inherited down to the traditional festival of the Chinese people - the Qingming Festival.

Qingming Festival is popular tomb-sweeping, in fact, tomb-sweeping is the content of the Qingming Festival before the day of the cold food festival, cold food is rumored to have started in the Duke of Jin Wen mourning mesothelias. In the 20th year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign, the Tang Emperor ordered the world to "go to the tomb on the cold food".

Because of the cold food and Qingming, and later gradually passed into the Qingming tomb sweeping. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Qingming Tomb Sweeping was even more prevalent. In ancient times, children often flew kites. Some kites were equipped with a bamboo flute, which could sound like a kite when blown by the wind, and it was said that the name of kite came from this.

Development and Evolution:

The Chinese people have been honoring their ancestors since ancient times, and the concept of prudent customs. The Qingming Festival has a long history, it changes with the development of the times, the subsequent gradual integration of the cold food festival and the customs of the festival. In ancient times, China's northern and southern customs are different, before the Tang Dynasty, China's northern tomb cleaning is mainly in the Cold Food Festival and Cold Clothes Festival.

From the "Rites of Passage" and other documentary records, before the Tang Dynasty, China's northern and no Qingming Festival on the tomb of the rules, to the Tang Dynasty, Qingming Festival on the tomb of the cleaning has become the trend.

The Tang Dynasty is China's northern and southern parts of the fusion of grave customs, inherited the Qingming grave customs, and expanded to all parts of the country. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, due to the similarity with the date of the Qingming Festival. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Qingming Festival rose to replace the Cold Food Festival. Status, and the integration of the Cold Food Festival ban on fire, cold food and other customary content.

Traditional customs of Qingming Festival

1, Cuju

Jiu is a kind of leather ball, the skin of the ball is made of leather, and the ball is stuffed with hair. Cuju is a kind of leather ball made of leather and stuffed tightly with wool. It is a favorite game in ancient times during the Qingming Festival. It is said to have been invented by the Yellow Emperor, and its original purpose was to train warriors. Playing polo, is also one of the drama of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Polo, is riding on a horse, holding a stick to play the ball, the ancient name of bowing. Cao Zhi of the Three Kingdoms, "the name of the chapter" in the sentence "even hit the bow border". Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, there is a wide field, Emperor Xuanzong, Jingzong and other emperors like polo.

Prince Zhanghuai's tomb in the "polo map", painted the prosperity of polo in the Tang dynasty: painting, more than 20 horses galloped, the horse's tail tied up, the ball player head 幞巾, foot foot boots, holding the ball staff by the ball hit each other. Analyzing the Jin Zhi records that Liao played polo as a traditional custom of the festival, in the Dragon Boat Festival and the 9th day of the 9th lunar month. Jin Shi - Rites of the record also recorded Jin people in the Dragon Boat Festival. Song dynasty "playing ball music" dance team. To the Ming Dynasty, polo is still popular.

2, kite flying

Kite flying is also a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. Every Qingming Festival, people not only fly during the day, but also at night. In the night under the kite or wind steady pull line hung on a string of small colorful lanterns, like a flashing star, known as the "God light". In the past, some people put the kite on the blue sky, they cut the line, let the wind send them to the end of the world, it is said that this can eliminate diseases and bring good luck to themselves.

3, sweep the tomb

Qingming Festival sweeping the tomb, called the ancestors of the "think of the time of respect". The custom has a long history. In the Ming Dynasty, "The Scenery of the Imperial Capital", it is written: "On Qingming Day in March, men and women sweep the graves, carrying Pusaetha scandens and hanging kozo ingots behind the sedan chair and horse, and the road is full of them with a great deal of charm. Those who worship, pour libation, cry, and weed the graves, burn kozo and put paper money on the graves.

The first thing you need to do is to look at the grave and see if there is any paper money in it, then it is a lonely grave. Weeping, do not return, tend to the fragrant trees, choose the garden, sit in the list of drunkenness." In fact, tomb-sweeping before the Qin Dynasty, but not necessarily on the occasion of Qingming, Qingming tomb-sweeping is a thing after the Qin Dynasty. Only in the Tang Dynasty did it begin to flourish.

"Qing Tongli" cloud: "years, cold food and frost festival, worship sweeping Xieng Khouang, the period plain clothes at the tomb, with wine and food and scythes cut the grass and trees of the device, week calloused sealed trees, cut the thorn grass, so called sweeping the tomb." And passed on to this day.

Qingming Festival ceremonies should be held in person to the graveyard, but because of the economic conditions of each family and other conditions are not the same, so the way to sweep the difference. "Burning baggage" is the main form of ancestor worship. The so-called "baggage", also known as "package" refers to the filial piety from the Yang Shi sent to the "netherworld" of the mailbag.

In the past, the South Paper Shop sells the so-called "baggage skin", that is, with white paper paste a large pocket. There are two forms: one is a woodcut version, printed around the Sanskrit transliteration, the center of the print a rosette tablet, used to write on the district number of the deceased's name, such as: "the late Zhang Fujun taboo Yunshan boss man" words, both as a mailbag and a tablet.

Another is a plain wrapping skin, not printed any pattern, the center only stick a blue sticker, write the name of the deceased can be. Also do the main card with. Regarding the money in the package, there are many kinds.