How to write unforgettable Tomb-Sweeping Day?
Today is the annual Tomb-Sweeping Day. Students, do you know the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day? If you don't know, I'll tell you now. Tomb-Sweeping Day started 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. Therefore, there is a saying that "melons and beans are planted before and after Qingming".
Agricultural proverb "Planting trees is not as clear as Qingming". 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.
Now Tomb-Sweeping Day has become a festival for us to mourn our deceased relatives. After lunch, our family, old and young, took tributes and paper money to visit the grave to worship our ancestors. When dad lit the paper money, grandma murmured, "Ancestor! Our whole family has come to worship you. I hope you will bless our family with peace and good luck.
"Then grandma asked us to kneel and kowtow. I want to laugh, but my mother told me that it is a custom and we must abide by it. This is also the memory of the deceased relatives and the etiquette of our younger generation. I am silently praying that my ancestors can really live happily in another world.
Then dad picked up the paper money with branches and burned it. He didn't throw away the branch until the residual fire was put out. Grandma then put the tribute fruit in front of the stone tablet to take care of the ancestors. This grave sweeping really benefited me a lot. Let me know about China's meaningful activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day.