200 words of thoughts on Qingming Festival

my country’s traditional festival Qingming Festival, from the perspective of solar terms, Qingming Festival is “fifteen days after the spring equinox”. Once Qingming Festival arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring plowing and spring planting. , so there is a saying in the farmer's proverb, "Before and after Qingming, plant melons and beans." "Hundred Questions of the Year" says: "Everything growing at this time is clean and bright, so it is called Qingming." From the perspective of festivals, Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country. It is said to have started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming Festival is a day for offering sacrifices and sweeping tombs, as well as a day for outings. Before the Sui Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival was more important than the Qingming Festival. However, since the difference between the two sections was only one day, after the Sui Dynasty, the two sections gradually merged into one section.

The prohibition of cold food and fire began with the story of Duke Wen of Jin and Jie Zitui in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it continued to become a custom later on. Tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival began in the Qin and Han Dynasties. It was "compiled into five rituals and will always be a routine" and became the main content of the festival later. In addition, there are other customs during the Qingming Festival such as outing, picnic, bathing, planting willows, and swinging.

Tomb Sweeping Day is an important festival and is taken very seriously. Elderly people generally call it Hanshi instead of Qingming. A few days before the cold food, I started to prepare. Steaming steamed buns, buying offerings, and making paper money, the children were busy surrounding the adults trying to set up swings. On the day of cold food, no fire is raised and the whole family eats cold food. The children took the opportunity to pester the adults to buy some biscuits and pastries that are rarely seen in ordinary times to satisfy their cravings. On the Qingming Festival, people go to the graves to worship their ancestors, add soil to the graves, insert willow branches, place offerings, kneel down and kowtow. After that, we went for an outing, washed our faces in the river, played marbles, and played on the swing. It was really joyful.

Historically, the ancients also attached great importance to the Qingming Festival. There are often chants about cold food and Qingming Festival in poems. It's just that the individual's environment and mood are different, and the emotions expressed in the poems are also very different. The most famous poem "Qingming" written by Du Mu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, has been passed down through the ages. "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and passersby on the road want to die. If I ask where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village." This poem not only captures the characteristics of the continuous spring rain during the Qingming Festival, which suddenly turns warm and cold, but also expresses the lonely homesickness of a wanderer outside. It also uses fresh brushstrokes to outline an ink painting of pastoral scenery in the rain. Someone slightly changed the punctuation of the poem and formed a wonderful drama: Qingming Festival. It rained heavily. On the way. Pedestrians want to die. May I ask: "Where is the restaurant?" The shepherd boy pointed in the distance: "Xinghua Village". You see, there is a time, a place, characters, scenes, and dialogue, a typical drama.

"Cold Food" by Han Hong, another poet of the Tang Dynasty, is also very famous: "Flowers are flying everywhere in the spring city, and the east wind blows in the willows of Cold Food. At dusk, candles are passed from the Han Palace, and light smoke disperses into the houses of the five princes." Hanshi was originally forbidden to fire, but the emperor passed the fire to the eunuchs. One can imagine the power of the eunuchs. This poem uses the past to satirize the present, and it has a strong poetic flavor. In particular, the sentence "Spring City is full of flying flowers" vividly expresses the spring spirit during the Qingming Festival and shows the author's superb calligraphy ability.

Wu Weixin of the Song Dynasty reflected the joy of outings during the Qingming Festival in his poem "The Qingming Festival at Su Di": "The pear blossoms are blowing in the wind during the Qingming Festival, and the wanderers are half out of the city in search of spring. At dusk, the music and singing are gone. "Thousands of willows belong to the wandering orioles." March in the south of the Yangtze River is the season when "thousands of pear blossoms are as white as snow". Young people go out to the city together to find spring. The shengs and flutes sing, the breeze blows, and the willows hug. It is really " When one feels relaxed and happy, one can hold wine in the wind and be overjoyed."

Qingming is a day for offering sacrifices and sweeping tombs. However, Gao Zhu from the Song Dynasty had his own unique views on tomb sweeping. In his poem "Wine on Qingming Day", he wrote: "There are many tombs on the north and south hills, and Qingming festivals are held in various ways. Paper ashes fly like white butterflies, and tears and blood dye Du Juan red. At dusk, the fox sleeps on the tomb, and returns home at night The children laugh in front of the lamp. If there is wine in life, you must be drunk, but never a drop of it reaches Jiuquan. "When offering sacrifices, they are filled with sorrow and offering sacrifices, and they kowtow. When they come back at night, they are laughing as before and feasting in front of the lamp. How did the deceased enjoy the wine poured out as a libation? What a stark contrast. Therefore, "after death you will know that everything is in vain", it is better to "have wine now and be drunk now" while alive, "you will have to drink three hundred cups at a time". This is a kind of freedom and ease that has gone through vicissitudes of life, and it is the maturity of understanding the world. "Paper ashes fly into white butterflies, tears and blood dye Du Juan into red" The two sentences are neatly contrasted and aptly compared to each other, and have always been recited by future generations.

Wang Pan, a man of the Ming Dynasty, also wrote a poem "Qingjiang Yin" about the Qingming Festival, which is very relaxing and sunny. "Ask where is the best place to ban smoking in the west building? The green field and sunny sky said. Horses neigh through willows, and people lean on swings and laugh. Looking at the orioles, the teacher is drunk in spring." Look, the clear sky is thousands of miles away, the sun is shining, the grass is far away, but there is nothing close. The young scholar is riding the reins, breaking willow trees, and the woman is swinging lightly with a smile on her face. Is it spring drunkenness or a human drunkenness? Or is Yinghua drunk? What a picture of a spring outing during the Qingming Festival.