Tomb-Sweeping Day custom?

Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship are the most important customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, many families go home for grave sweeping and ancestor worship activities, as well as hiking, swinging, flying kites, planting trees and inserting willows. Let's learn more about the relevant customs during the Qingming period ~ ~

The custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day

1, sweeping graves to worship ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a cultural tradition of paying homage to his ancestors and pursuing the future with caution, mainly offering sacrifices to his ancestors and expressing his filial piety and yearning for them. It can be said that grave-sweeping sacrifice is the core of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is also the significance that Tomb-Sweeping Day has been recognized by everyone so far. China advocated the concept of "home" since ancient times. After all, our concept of home country is relatively heavy, and we also attach great importance to the deceased. It is a yearning of our ancestors for Tomb-Sweeping Day to weed the ancestral graves and add new soil on this day.

2. Eat green balls. The custom of eating green jiaozi in Jiangnan area during Qingming Festival. Green as jade, green as oil, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not smelly, green glutinous rice balls are also a necessary food for people to sacrifice their ancestors in Jiangnan area. Because of this, green jiaozi is particularly important in the folk customs in the south of the Yangtze River.

3. Go for an outing. Going for an outing is also called a spring outing. In ancient times, it was called spring exploration and spring search. In March, Wan Li is clear, and spring returns to the earth. Nature presents a vibrant scene everywhere, which is a good time for an outing. Our people have kept the habit of going for a walk in the Qingming Festival for a long time.

4. Fly a kite. Kites are also called "paper kites" and "kites". Flying kites is the most popular activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk with bamboo strips and other skeletons, pulls a long line on it, and drops it into the sky under the action of wind. It belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people should let go not only during the day, but also at night, meaning to let go of everything that goes wrong.

5. swing. Actually, the swing was not called a swing at first, but Qian Qiu, but later it was renamed a swing, which was one of the most popular activities in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day and has been a very popular entertainment since then.

6. Tug of war. In fact, tug-of-war was not a popular folk activity at first. In ancient times, it was a military competition to exercise the quality of soldiers. However, when Tang Xuanzong found this activity interesting, he began to hold a large tug-of-war in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Since then, tug-of-war activities have become popular among the people, especially when enterprises, institutions and schools are in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

7. Insert the willow. Among the people, Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of inserting willows. There are three kinds of folk sayings about this custom. Among them, it is said that willow branches are inserted in the jade vase of Guanyin Bodhisattva, so people think that willow branches have the function of exorcism, so willow branches will be inserted on this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

8.cuju. This is the earliest football activity in China, and its origin can be traced back to the Warring States Period. Cuju is an ancient rubber ball with a spherical surface made of leather and filled with feathers. Cuju was a very popular game activity in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. By the Han Dynasty, Cuju had become a very specialized sport with relatively perfect competition rules.

These are some common customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day ~ ~

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day

It is said that the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the tombs of ancient emperors, and later people followed suit. On this day, offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves became a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day were two different festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, the day of sweeping graves was designated as the Cold Food Festival. The correct date of the Cold Food Festival is from winter to the future 105, around Tomb-Sweeping Day. Because the two dates are similar, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food merged into one day. "

Stories and Legends of Tomb-Sweeping Day —— In Memory of Meson Push

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the Jin Dynasty, was exiled. Hungry and dizzy on the way, the minister meson pushed the meat on his thigh to eat. Later, my son Zhong Er became Jin Wengong, and the loyal minister forgot to recommend him. When Zhong Er remembered this incident, Jiezitui refused to be an official again and lived in Mianshan behind his mother's back. Zhong Er asked Yamakaji to force him out of the mountain, but the fire burned for three days and no one came out. He went up the mountain and found himself and his mother burned to death. On the charred willow tree, there is a big fairy who writes a bloody poem, "May the Lord be always clear when I cut meat and serve you." Therefore, Zhong Er designated the day when Yamakaji was released as Cold Food Festival. The next day, Zhong Er climbed a mountain to pay homage, and found that the old willow was revived, so he named it "Qingming Willow" and Tomb-Sweeping Day to pay homage to Jiexiu.

The above is an introduction to some customs, sources, stories and legends of Tomb-Sweeping Day. I hope I can help you ~ ~