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Are there any research reports on the history and present situation of Tomb-Sweeping Day?

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is first of all a very important solar term. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting. So around Tomb-Sweeping Day, melons and beans were planted. Planting trees is nothing more than a clear agricultural proverb.

Later, as the days of Qingming and cold food approached, cold food was the day when people banned fire to sweep graves. Gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name of Qingming and became a custom of Qingming. On Qingming Day, there are no fireworks, only cold food.

(1) Tomb-Sweeping Day is not fixed on a specific day, but changes according to the spring equinox.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day is different from Tomb-Sweeping Day.

(3) It turns out that Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period originated from the introduction of loyal ministers and dutiful sons.

(4) In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people should remember their ancestors and plant more trees.

China's science and technology are changing with each passing day, so we can no longer be superstitious. We should plant more trees instead of using fire in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In a civilized society, we should move towards a well-off society and let civilization, health and science and technology grow with us.

Development and evolution

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the Spring Festival of the Chinese nation, and the Spring Festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day corresponds to the Autumn Festival of Chongyang and the Spring Festival in Spring and Autumn, which has existed since ancient times. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has been courteous to its ancestors and cautious about the future. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which changes with the development of the times. Later, it gradually merged the customs of Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival.

In ancient times, the north and south of China had different customs. Before the Tang Dynasty, grave sweeping in northern China was mainly in the Cold Food Festival and the Cold Clothes Festival. According to the Book of Rites and other documents, before the Tang Dynasty, there was no custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day going to the grave to offer sacrifices to sweep, but in the Tang Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day offered sacrifices to sweep has become an atmosphere.

It is the period of the integration of the northern and southern burial rituals in China, which followed the tomb ritual customs of Qingming and extended to all parts of the country. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, because it was similar to Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Tomb-Sweeping Day rose to the position of replacing the Cold Food Festival, and incorporated the custom of forbidding fire and cold food into the Cold Food Festival.