Tomb-Sweeping Day custom articles

Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are rich and interesting. In addition to prohibiting fire from sweeping graves, there are also a series of customs and sports activities such as hiking, swinging and inserting willows.

According to legend, this is because Tomb-Sweeping Day wants to ban cold food and fire. In order to prevent the harm of cold food and cold meal to people, we all take part in some sports activities to exercise.

Therefore, this festival is a distinctive festival, with both sad tears to sweep graves and laughter for an outing.

Grave-sweeping: Tomb-Sweeping Day visited the grave, which was called "respecting time" for ancestors. According to time-honored customs, in the old days, Beijingers mostly visited graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but the grave-sweeping ceremony was not held in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but on Singles' Day near Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is said that only monks offer sacrifices to sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Willow insertion: It is said that the custom of willow insertion is also to commemorate Shennong, the agricultural ancestor who taught people to grow crops. In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to forecast the weather. There is an old saying that "the willow branches are green and the rain is raining;" The saying that "the wicker is withered and the sky is high and the clouds are light".

During the period of Huang Chao, it was stipulated that "Qingming lasts for a period, and Liu Dai is the number". After the failure of the uprising, the custom of wearing willow was gradually eliminated, and only willow was popular.

Willow has a strong vitality, as the saying goes: "intentional planting of flowers, unintentional planting of willows." Wicker lives when inserted in the soil, lives where it is inserted, and goes down year after year, and it becomes gloomy everywhere.