Tomb-Sweeping Day Holiday Calendar in 2023
Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Youth Day. This is the first "sacrificial ceremony" for emperors and generals. Later, with the continuous development of the times, ordinary people began to follow suit. Tomb-Sweeping Day's traditional customs include: ancestor worship, outing, inserting willows, flying kites, shooting willows, silkworm flower parties and sweeping graves. Among them, hiking, grave sweeping and ancestor worship are the most common.
Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people spontaneously prepare something for Tomb-Sweeping Day. Such as paper money, incense sticks, fruit snacks and so on. Express your thoughts to the deceased. At the same time, I will invite three or five friends to go for an outing in the suburbs in my spare time to enjoy the breath of spring.
The two themes of hiking and grave sweeping have been passed down to this day. It is not only a "festival" but also a "solar term". As Du Mu's "Tomb-Sweeping Day" said, "It rains in succession during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die." This poem is the best portrayal of the weather during the Qingming Festival.