Is cuju a custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Bow is a rubber ball, the skin of which is made of leather, and the ball is stuffed with wool. Cuju is kicking the ball with your feet. This is a popular game in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. Cuju, the predecessor of China football, is made of leather and stuffed with wool. There are many customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Due to different regional cultures, the contents or details of customs are also different. Although customs vary from place to place, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and hiking are the same basic customs and themes to express worshippers' filial piety and feelings of missing ancestors. It is a cultural tradition to honor one's ancestors and pursue the future cautiously.

Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. This is not only a solemn day to sweep graves and worship ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, go hiking and enjoy the fun of spring. The integration of solar terms and folk customs is the unity of time, place and people, which fully embodies the idea of "harmony between heaven and earth" pursued by the ancestors of the Chinese nation, paying attention to conforming to the harmony between time, place and people and following the laws of nature.