Qingming

The Ching Ming Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. In ancient times, the Ching Ming Festival was the fifth solar term in the 24th solar terms. Instead of a holiday, the day before Ching Ming Festival is the Cold Food Festival, which is the real holiday. As a solar term, the Ching Ming Festival is a day late, but he means the arrival of spring.
When the Qingming Festival, the temperature rises, it is a good time for the spring plowing purebred, so there is a saying of 'planting melons before and after the Qingming.'
Someone here will ask about the custom of sweeping the tomb?—The custom of sweeping the tomb appeared in the Han Dynasty. The original Qingming Festival only had the custom of walking, and Qingming represented the best season for walking.
The sweeping of the tomb was due to the fact that the emperors of the Han Dynasty often worshipped their ancestors during the Ching Ming Festival, so the common people began to sweep the tomb at this time. During the Tang Dynasty, the emperor also issued a ban on this festival. 'It is forbidden to carry out the graves and the greens during the Ching Ming Festival. 'Because many people are crying when they are sweeping the graves, they are laughing and joking when they are going to the ground. The court did not feel serious and issued it.
But in fact, the ancient people regard the Qingming festival as the solar terms of life transformation, because it means the end of the past year and the beginning of the new year, which also means the intersection of man and nature.
Today's Ching Ming Festival, it is not only the ancestors of the people and the commemoration of the ancestors, but also the ties of the Chinese celebrities and the ancestors of the ancestors. It is also a spring ceremony for hiking, getting close to nature and maintaining new life.

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