1, Tomb-Sweeping Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China and one of the three ghost festivals in China, and it belongs to a grand and serious traditional festival in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, usually after the winter solstice 106, the day after the Cold Food Festival.
Due to the custom of ancestor worship, grave-sweeping and outing in China, it has gradually evolved into a traditional festival in China for Chinese to commemorate their ancestors in the form of grave-sweeping and worship.
2. Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival must be the most familiar Ghost Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month (in some places, especially in South China, it is said that the Mongols invaded a place in the late Song Dynasty, and residents celebrated the festival one day earlier to escape). Taoism calls it the Mid-Autumn Festival, Buddhism calls it the Orchid Festival (referred to as the Orchid Festival), and the folk call it Ghost Festival and July and a half.
3. Cold Clothes Festival
Every year, the first day of October in the lunar calendar is called "October Dynasty", also known as "ancestor worship festival". In order to send the cold clothes festival, also known as the ghost festival. On this day, special attention is paid to paying homage to those who died first, which is called sending cold clothes. In order to prevent the ancestors from getting cold in the underworld, on this day, people will burn five-color paper, send them warm clothes, and give them to send warm, a ghost.
The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the Spring Festival in ancient times. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day were two different festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, the Qingming Festival and the cold food were merged into one day because of their similar days. Later, it also absorbed the custom content of another earlier festival-Shangsi Festival.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, which combines the two festivals and customs of cold food and Shangsi, formed a traditional festival in Song and Yuan Dynasties, which centered on worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves, and combined the custom of forbidding cold food with the customary activities of Shangsi outing. The ancients divided Qingming into three stages, that is, a stage when tung began to blossom; Second, waiting for wheat flowers, voles turn into driving; Third, the willow flowers, the rainbow began to see.