Significance: Ching Ming Festival embodies the traditional concepts of the Chinese nation of honoring relatives and ancestors and revering the ancestors, the core of which is the Confucian ethical culture of loyalty and filial piety.

1, trekking

The Chinese people have had the custom of trekking in Qingming since ancient times. In ancient times, trekking was called exploring spring, searching for spring, etc., that is, spring excursions, also known as "spring trekking". Generally refers to the early spring to the countryside to walk and play. Treading green this seasonal folk activities, in our country has a long history, its source is the ancient farming rituals to welcome the spring custom, this farming rituals to welcome the spring custom has a profound influence on later generations.

2, tree planting

Before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines and the spring rain sprinkles, planting saplings with a high survival rate and 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. During the Qingming Festival, people not only fly kites during the day, but also at night. At night, under the kite or the wind steady pull line hangs a string of small colorful lanterns, like the twinkling star, known as the "divine lantern".

4, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship

Tomb sweeping at Qingming, that is, "tomb sacrifice", said the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect", ancestor worship is the way to remember the ancestors, the custom has a long history. The Qingming Festival is a cultural tradition of honoring ancestors and tracing the past to the future.

5, willow

Ching Ming Festival, Chinese folk custom of willow. Qingming willow willow another way of saying is to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. Some places in the north of China will be the Qingming Festival, the Festival of the Middle Ages, Cold Weather Festival, known as the "three ghosts".