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Do you want to be clear and clear?

Do you want to insert willows in Qingming as follows: Yes.

The first is to promote the planting of willows.

During the Qingming Festival, the willow branches just sprouted, which is the time with the strongest vitality. As long as it is planted in the soil, the probability of survival is extremely high. Therefore, there are sayings that "the willows are bright, and the willows are planted in the shade" and "the willows are planted every year, and there are shadows everywhere". Willow is an excellent tree species, which can be said to be useful all over the body. Leaves can be used as cattle, sheep and horses, branches can be woven into baskets, trunks can be used as buildings and various appliances, and they can also be burned into charcoal.

In addition, willow roots are developed, and planting by the river is also beneficial to soil and water conservation. It is precisely because of the many functions of willow that many dynasties advocated planting willow, which is also an easily accepted promotion method.

The second is to forecast the weather.

Willow branches are very sensitive to water vapor in the air. When the water vapor in the air is high, the willow branches will be green and moist, and when the water vapor is low, they will dry up and wither. Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a saying that willow branches are green and the rain has cleared up. People can judge whether it will rain according to the color of willow branches, which is convenient for people's production and work.

The third is to get rid of diseases and detoxify.

In the view of Chinese medicine, willow branches, willow leaves, willow whiskers, catkins and willow flowers can be used as medicine with different effects. Among them, willow branches and leaves have the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and diminishing inflammation, and various viruses begin to breed in spring. Wearing willow branches has a certain effect on preventing people from being infected by diseases.

Cultural connotation:

As the most solemn ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional cultural festival that respects ancestors and pursues the future cautiously. 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.