What's Tomb-Sweeping Day's alias?
Tomb-Sweeping Day is the traditional Spring Festival in China. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years to sweep graves and cherish the memory of ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, another name for Tomb-Sweeping Day, was held at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. It has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the combination of natural solar terms and humanistic customs, and the unity of man and nature, which fully embodies the idea of the ancestors of the Chinese nation to pursue the harmony of "heaven, earth and man", and pays attention to conforming to the right time, place and people and following the laws of nature.
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Can Tomb-Sweeping Day wish each other happiness? Some people think: no. Tomb-Sweeping Day's main activities, such as ancestor worship and grave sweeping, are solemn. At the same time, both of them are related to death and ghosts and gods, and the attitude of "happiness" is not desirable.
In this regard, Gao Wei, secretary-general of the Beijing Folklore Society, said frankly that Qingming can be said to be "Happy Tomb-Sweeping Day", which has actually lasted for a long time; Comparatively speaking, "Tomb-Sweeping Day can't be said to be happy" only rose in recent two years. This is controversial because people don't know enough about the meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Gao Wei analyzed that Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most important festival in spring with rich themes. The theme of Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only to sweep graves, but more importantly, to combine sweeping graves with hiking. When we wish happiness, it just shows that we have the courage to overcome sadness and difficulties, which is also a positive attitude.