Tomb-Sweeping Day activity flow
1, weeding
On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, when people go to sacrifice their ancestors, everyone will take a sickle to weed. After a long time, weeds will grow on the grave. When people go to worship their ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day, they will remove weeds from graves. In people's eyes, weeds on graves are just like weeds in ancestors' yards.
Step 2 fill the soil
Filling the earth is something that Tomb-Sweeping Day also needs to do to pay homage. If there wasn't a lot of soil on the graves of our ancestors, everyone would fill in some soil.
3, hanging paper
This kind of paper is a kind of slender hanging paper, and the paper is a thin rectangle. Generally, tombstones and memorial tablets of the god of wealth are pressed with stones, while the graves are covered with paper evenly. In many rural areas, this kind of paper is still hung on graves with bamboo. The hanging paper is white and decorated with some red and green things.
Step 4 sacrifice
Sacrifice is to put offerings in front of the tomb. Sacrifices are usually fruits, cakes, sweets and the like.
Step 5 welcome
Kneeling three times and knocking nine times is the execution ceremony of ancestor worship. Kowtow three times every time you kneel on the ground. When saluting, cross your legs, kneel down, lean over and touch the ground with your hands to show respect for your ancestors.
Tomb-Sweeping Day source
According to legend, Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the tombs of ancient emperors and generals, and later people began to follow suit, offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming Festival was originally just the name of a solar term, and it became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival, so Jin Wengong designated the day after the Cold Food Festival as Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is named after Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi and Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi * * have 15 days in the twenty-four solar terms of the China lunar calendar. As Tomb-Sweeping Day in the solar terms, the time is after the vernal equinox, so Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called the outing festival. The turn of mid-spring and late spring is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals. This is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves.