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Tomb-Sweeping Day blackboard newspaper model

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only one of the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional festival with a long history. The day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day was called Cold Food Festival. The two festivals coincide with the spring of March, with bright spring, pink and green, and a thriving atmosphere. During the Qingming cold food period, there were folk customs such as forbidding fire and cold food, worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves, and going out for an outing. The following is a sample of Tomb-Sweeping Day blackboard newspaper, please refer to it!

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Tomb-Sweeping Day Blackboard Content 1: Introduction of Tomb-Sweeping Day Source

When it comes to Tomb-Sweeping Day, people with a little knowledge of history will associate it with the historical figure meson tui. According to historical records, in the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled and lived a hard life. Follow his meson and cut a piece of meat from his leg to satisfy his hunger. Later, Zhong Er returned to the State of Jin and became a monarch (that is, Jin Wengong, one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period). He rewarded all his followers who followed him into exile, but meson refused to accept the reward. He took his mother to Mianshan and refused to come out.

Jin Wengong was at his wit's end, so he had to let Yamakaji go. He thought that meson tui would be filial to his mother and would definitely come out with her. Who knows this torch meson mother and son burned to death. In order to commemorate Jie Zitui, Jin Wengong ordered that no fire should be lit on this day every year, and every household can only eat cold food, which is the origin of the Cold Food Festival.

Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The ancients often extended the activities of the Cold Food Festival to Qingming. Over time, people combine cold food with Qingming. Now, instead of the Cold Food Festival, the custom of worshipping Jietui in Tomb-Sweeping Day has become the custom of sweeping graves in Qingming.

Commemorative way

Tomb-Sweeping Day commemorates his ancestors in many ways:

Grave-sweeping is the earliest custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which continues to this day and is gradually simplified with the progress of society. On the day of grave-sweeping, the descendants first pruned the graves of their ancestors and the weeds around them, and then offered food and flowers.

As the cremation of human remains is becoming more and more common, the custom of sweeping graves is gradually replaced by the way of offering sacrifices to ancestors with ashes. Chinese Singaporeans also set up a main card for the dead in the temple, so the temple has also become a place to worship ancestors in Qingming. On that day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, some families also worshipped their ancestors at home. On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, you can bow silently in front of ancestors' graves, places where ashes are placed or temples.

No matter what form of commemoration, the most basic ceremony in Tomb-Sweeping Day is to remember the ancestors in front of the grave, where the ashes are placed or in front of the coffin. In order to make the ceremony of commemorating ancestors more meaningful, we should let the younger generation of family members know about the past struggle history of ancestors.

Tomb-Sweeping Day Blackboard Content 2: Among the 24 solar terms, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day are both solar terms and festivals, only Qingming (the winter solstice is also a festival in history, but it is not celebrated in most places now). The name of Tomb-Sweeping Day is related to the weather and climate characteristics at this time. The Western Han Dynasty's "Huainanzi Astronomical Training" said: On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, when it refers to B, the wind will clear up. Qingming wind is a refreshing wind. "Questions at the Age of 100" says that everything grows clean and bright at this time. So it's called Qingming. Tomb-Sweeping Day, as a festival, was only formed in the Tang Dynasty, but Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi, as a symbol of time sequence, has long been known by the ancients and clearly recorded in the Han Dynasty.

Twenty-four solar terms are climatic laws summarized by astronomers and people in ancient China in their life and production practice, which reflect the changes of temperature, phenology and rainfall in four seasons, and are of indispensable guiding significance for people to arrange farming and sericulture activities on time. By Qingming, the temperature is getting warmer and the rainfall is increasing, which is a good season for spring ploughing and spring planting. Therefore, Qingming is an important solar term in ancient agricultural production. Agricultural proverbs say that before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, it was Tomb-Sweeping Day who ordered melons, planted beans and planted trees. It is for this reason. According to Cui Mang's "Four-person Moon Order" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day ordered a silkworm concubine to stay in .........................................................................................................................................., where Tomb-Sweeping Day was just a solar term, not a festival.

In addition, Qingming is in early spring and March, with beautiful spring, everything recovering, pleasant climate and full of vitality everywhere. This is a good time for spring outing and suburban entertainment, so before and after Qingming Festival, it naturally becomes a good time for people to enjoy playing outdoors and in the countryside.

Although the Tomb-Sweeping Day mentioned in this paper mainly refers to festivals rather than solar terms, the atmosphere of Tomb-Sweeping Day provides important conditions for the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in terms of time, weather and climate characteristics, and this solar term should be regarded as one of the origins of Tomb-Sweeping Day.