How do Hong Kong people celebrate Tomb Sweeping Day? Please tell me details 03

Ching Ming Festival is an important local festival. Hong Kong people will go to their ancestors’ graves to burn incense and candles.

The sacrifices mostly include fruits, flowers, roasted pigs or white-cut chickens. . In order to avoid crowds, some Hong Kong people are accustomed to worshiping mountains several weeks in advance. There is no need to abide by the tradition of worshiping ancestors on the Qingming Festival.

As early as the British rule, even though the border between China and Hong Kong was heavily guarded, during the Qingming Festival, the Sha Tau Kok restricted area on the border between China and Hong Kong was often opened to a limited extent, allowing people to enter Sha Tau Kok. Worship at the Ridge Cemetery; in the early years

China has not yet implemented the reform and opening up policy, and many people will use the excuse of worshiping their ancestors during the Tomb Sweeping Day

Go back to their hometowns, everyone wears Wear multiple layers of clothes and carry an unusually large amount of daily necessities to support relatives and friends in the countryside

There will also be panic buying and ticket scalping of China-Hong Kong train tickets.

In recent decades, when Hong Kong people clear weeds in front of the graves of their ancestors, some people believe in the Feng Shui theory of "burning the land"

and set fire to the weeds. As a result, many A serious mountain fire has attracted public attention.

In 2007, some groups organized a "Qingming Festival No Mountain Fire Pledge Rally" to appeal to citizens not to set fires to clear weeds.

The Qingming Festival also brought a local saying: "If you have anything to do, worship the mountain first." But today's Hong Kong people can no longer follow the old customs. Young people do not have enough time, money and patience to undertake a series of tedious sacrificial activities. The form of sacrificial rituals does not matter as long as they can remember them. By observing the Tomb-Sweeping Festival and visiting the graves of relatives during this festival, the meaning of the Tomb-Sweeping Festival will be realized.