What does Tomb-Sweeping Day mean by homesickness?
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestor belief of early human beings, is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and hiking are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs handed down from ancient times in China.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves and remember our 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 combines natural solar terms with humanistic customs, which is the unity of climate, geographical location and human harmony.
Other customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
1. Grave-sweeping: In the old days, grave-sweeping sacrifices paid more attention to geomantic omen and etiquette. The custom of sweeping graves has continued to this day, and the form and content have been gradually simplified. On this day, people will bring wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery. First of all, they should cultivate graves, remove weeds, clean cemeteries or cemeteries, and break some green branches and put them in graves.
2. Walking: During the Qingming Festival, the temperature rises and everything begins to sprout according to the laws of nature. As early as Shangsi Festival, people would go to the suburbs to worship the gods in charge of marriage and childbirth. At this time, young men and women gather to play by the water in the suburbs, which is also the time for men and women to meet and courtship. On this day, people get together in the wild, singing and dancing with each other and communicating with each other, so the suburbs become a lively and romantic place, which is an elegant expression of the ancients' outing.
3. Temple Fair: The traditional temple fair is not only an activity of offering sacrifices to gods, but also a form of expression of national folk art. The arrangement of the temple fair is related to agricultural production in various places. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people used temple fairs to prepare for farming, which contributed to the momentum of Qingming Temple Fair.