Tomb-Sweeping Day handwritten newspaper essay.

Tomb-Sweeping Day will be here soon. At this important moment, let's pay tribute to our ancestors with handwritten newspapers. The following is a short essay on Tomb-Sweeping Day Handwritten Newspaper compiled by me for your reference only. Welcome to reading.

Introduction to Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most important sacrificial festival in China, which usually falls on April 5th of the Gregorian calendar.

China people have been polite and respectful to their ancestors since ancient times, so the tradition of the Spring Festival gradually took shape during the Qingming period. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, many places will hold various commemorative activities in memory of revolutionary ancestors and war heroes. There are folk customs such as hiking, grave sweeping and ancestor worship.

Cultural connotation:

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Grave-sweeping is "grave-sweeping sacrifice", which is called "respecting time" for ancestors. Spring and Autumn Festival has existed since ancient times. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from ancient ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifices. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. According to archaeological excavations, a 10,000-year-old tomb was found at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is the earliest tomb in China, indicating that ancient ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs thousands of years ago. The custom of "grave-sweeping sacrifice" has a long history, and Qingming "grave-sweeping sacrifice" is the synthesis and sublimation of traditional spring customs. The establishment of the ancient branch calendar provided decisive conditions for the formation of festivals. Ancestor belief and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of ancestral worship custom in Qingming Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in customs, which can be summarized as two festivals and traditions: one is to respect the ancestors and be cautious to the end; The second is outing and getting close to nature. Tomb-Sweeping Day not only has the theme of sweeping, remembering and remembering, but also has the theme of taking an outing and enjoying the body and mind. The traditional concept of "harmony between man and nature" has been vividly reflected in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Through historical development, Tomb-Sweeping Day has integrated the customs of the Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival in Tang and Song Dynasties, and integrated various folk customs, which has extremely rich cultural connotations.

The origin and legend of Tomb-Sweeping Day;

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is first of all a very important solar term. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is a saying that "melons and beans are planted before and after Qingming". Agricultural proverb "Planting trees is not as clear as Qingming". Later, as the days of Qingming and cold food approached, cold food was the day when people banned fire to sweep graves. Gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name of Qingming and became a custom of Qingming. On Qingming Day, there are no fireworks, only cold food.

Sacrifice to sweep the grave:

Since the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court has given officials a holiday and asked them to go to their hometown to visit their graves. According to the Song Dynasty's Dream of Liang Lu, every time in Tomb-Sweeping Day, "officials go out to the tombs of the suburbs to show respect for the time." The number of grave sweepers is not limited to men and women, and they often go out with their families. In this way, grave-sweeping activities around Tomb-Sweeping Day often become the personal participation of the whole society. Within a few days, the country people came and went, and the scale was extremely prosperous.

There are differences around Tomb-Sweeping Day. In the past, Beijingers paid homage to sweep graves not in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but on Singles Day near Tomb-Sweeping Day. Only monks offer sacrifices to sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Lishui, Zhejiang, grave-sweeping takes place in the first three days and the last four days in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is called "the first three days and the last four days". In Shandong, in the old days, most areas visited graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, a few areas such as Zhucheng visited graves during the Cold Food Festival, and some places visited graves in the first four days of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Nowadays, people usually visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. People in southern Shanxi divide the time for sweeping graves into two times. On one occasion, a few days ago in Tomb-Sweeping Day, my family went to visit the grave separately. The second time was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, where representatives of families with the same surname in a village went to the cemetery to worship their ancestors. Shanghai people sweep graves, and the new graves are different from the old ones. People who have recently passed away, who haven't done the ceremony of turning over after 7749 days, should ask monks and nuns to chant Buddhist scriptures or do Dojo in Tomb-Sweeping Day on this day. If it's an old grave, where sacrifices have been made or Dojo has been done, it may not be necessary for Tomb-Sweeping Day to sweep the grave, but it can be relaxed before and after, but not sweeping the grave can go beyond the first seven days and the last eight days. As the saying goes, "the first seven days, the last eight days, the ghost holiday." This means that it will fail too early or too late.

Qingming willow:

As an important cultural symbol in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the willow tree has never declined since the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is in sharp contrast with the custom of cold food.

In the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was customary to put willows under the eaves during the Qingming period.

At that time, everyone went to the west lake to fold willows, and even destroyed the willows by the lake. Therefore, some poets lamented: "Don't fold all the green flowers, especially in the Ming Dynasty."

Willow belongs to Salicaceae, which refers to more than 500 species of Salix and Salix. Willow also has gender, which can be divided into "Liu Nan" and "Liu Nv". Liuhua inflorescence consists of several small flowers, which is called Liuhua inflorescence.

Routi was often compared to a woman's hand in ancient times, praising its softness and smoothness. There is a description in the Book of Songs: "Hands are soft, skin is solidified ... beautiful eyes look forward to it!"

The ancients' love for willows can be seen from the metaphor of willow flowers.

After each small catkin flower matures, the small capsules in the flower gradually crack and fly all over the sky with the white catkins of the seeds.

Willow is a native tree species in China. In addition, it is also one of the earliest recorded artificially cultivated plants in China, and the word "willow" has existed in Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Why did the ancients choose to stick willow branches on the door when they were in Tomb-Sweeping Day? Later generations have different interpretations and many differences.

Dr. Xiao Fang has his own opinion. He believes that the ancients chose willow branches to ward off evil spirits, mainly because willow is a good tree in spring and the first in spring. When the field is vast, willows are the first to spit out new green. So willow is often used as a sign of spring.

Another statement seems to be more convincing and quite practical. According to reports, in some places, willow strips are inserted in the eaves during Qingming Festival to forecast the weather. And this statement is in line with the old saying, "the wicker is green and it rains;" The wicker is withered, and the sky is high and the clouds are light.

More interestingly, willow leaves are not lost to wicker. In summer and autumn, the willow leaves will turn white before the rainy day, and they will make guest appearances as "weathermen".

Seasonal food:

Cold food: With the cold food custom of the Cold Food Festival transplanted to Tomb-Sweeping Day, some places in northern China still retain the habit of eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cool cakes, while Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Long Island eat eggs and cool sorghum rice. It is said that if not, there will be hail. Taian eats cold pancakes and rolls bitter vegetables. It is said that his eyes are bright. Jinzhong area still retains the habit of banning fire the day before Qingming. In many places, after the sacrificial ceremony is completed, food will be sacrificed. People in southern Shanxi used to steam steamed bread with white flour, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle. The records of folk cold food customs almost suddenly appeared in the documents of the Eastern Han Dynasty, mainly concentrated in Shanxi. Even in the Tang and Song Dynasties, when the custom of cold food was quite popular, its spread did not come from the north. The Jin Dynasty's "Zhong Ye Ji" first talked about the special food in cold food: "On the day of cold food, you can cook preserved cheese, boiled japonica rice and wheat as cheese, and boiled apricot red as porridge." Until the Tang and Song Dynasties, people were still eating this kind of cold coix seed porridge.

Qingming Cake: In some places in southern China, Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating green dumplings, which are also called Qingming Cake, Flour Cake, Cike Cake, Qingming Baba, Ai Ye Baba, Ai Jie, Qingming Fruit, Bobo Cake, Qingming Cake and Ai. In the hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian, every time we go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, we will make some cakes, cakes and rice noodles for our families to eat before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the old custom in Shanghai, steamed cakes for sacrifice should be put on wicker and dried and stored. When they come in the long summer, they will be fried and given to the children. It is said that eating it in summer won't make you sick. In Huzhou, Zhejiang, every family in Tomb-Sweeping Day makes zongzi, which can be used as a grave-sweeping sacrifice or as dry food for hiking. As the saying goes: "Qingming Zongzi is real." Before and after Qingming, snails were fat and strong. Eating lotus root is to wish silkworm babies long and good silk. Eating sprouted beans is a lottery to win "money". Eating fresh vegetables like Malantou means taking the word "green" to match the "green" of "Qingming".