What kind of festival is Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to worship ancestors. Grave-sweeping and memorial ceremonies show the inheritance of blood, connect ancestors and descendants, and let the younger generation know how to respect the old and love the virtuous, and pursue the future with caution.

In the history of China, it has long been a custom to eat cold food, forbid fire and pay homage to ancestors. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, and Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping and ancestor worship became a continuous festival tradition.

Even in today's society, before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people still have the custom of going to graves to pay homage to their ancestors: uprooting weeds, placing offerings, burning incense and praying in front of graves, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bunch of flowers to express their memory of their ancestors.

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Other customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are rich and interesting. In addition to paying attention to the prohibition of fire to sweep graves, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as jogging, swinging, cuju, playing polo 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.

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