In 2022, Tomb-Sweeping Day offered sacrifices to sweep auspicious days.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's generalization
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival and ancestor worship festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years to go to the grave to worship and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family memory, but also to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is a combination of natural solar terms and humanistic customs, which is the unity of climate, geographical location and human harmony. It fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' thought of pursuing harmony between heaven and earth, paying attention to conforming to the right time, place and people and following the laws of nature. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in festivals and customs. Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day. These two traditional themes of manners and customs have been handed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.