What does Tomb-Sweeping Day mean?

1. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave to worship ancestors. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some fresh green branches and insert them in the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating the food.

Third, the poem "Qingming Festival" by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: "There are many rains during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Write the special atmosphere of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

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First of all, there is an ancient saying that the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day was the "Cold Food Festival". According to legend, it began in the Spring and Autumn Period when Jin Wengong mourned meson's "cutting stocks to satisfy hunger", and then gradually Qingming cold food became one of them.

Second, the date of tomb sweeping in the Tang Dynasty is generally one of the scenic spots in Mianshan Scenic Area: the Cold Food Festival of Mother and Child Stone Statues, which was moved to Qingming after the Song Dynasty.

Third, the legendary "Cold Food Festival" originated in Jiexiu, Shanxi. Jiexiu's origin is to commemorate Jiexiu's "cutting stocks to satisfy hunger" without asking for anything in return. Finally, he died here in Yamakaji. Mianshan was originally named "Ding Yang", and was later renamed "Jiexiu" by Jin Wengong, which means Jiexiu.

Mianshan has been developed into a famous tourist attraction by local people, and one of the important attractions is the tall stone statue of mother and son, which has become the representative of local people who are loyal to both sides.

5. Grave-sweeping is very popular in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In fact, sweeping graves is the content of Tomb-Sweeping Day's Cold Food Festival the day before. According to legend, cold food originated from Jin Wengong's mourning for Jiexiu. During the twenty years of Emperor Xuanzong's reign, he ordered the world to "eat cold food and be safe in the grave". Because cold food is associated with Qingming, it is gradually extended to sweeping graves during Qingming. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, grave sweeping became more popular. In ancient times, children often flew kites when sweeping graves. Some kites are equipped with bamboo flutes, which make a sound when the wind blows, just like the sound of kites. It is said that this is the reason why kites get their names.

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Tomb-Sweeping Day-Baidu encyclopedia