The Qingming Festival, also known as the "Ta Qing Festival", "Xing Qing Festival", "March Festival" and "Sacrifice to the Ancestors", is a grand traditional festival of Spring Festival of the Chinese nation. It belongs to a traditional cultural festival of cautious pursuit.
respecting the ancestors and promoting filial piety. There are many customs in Qingming Festival. There are differences in contents or details of Customs in different regions and cultures.
Although customs vary from place to place, tomb sweeping and ancestor sacrifice and outing in Qingming are the common basic themes of customs.
Qingming Festival is one of the 24 special festivals in the ancient Ganzhi Calendar, which expresses the seasonal changes. It is in the period of vigor and vitality, and it is also the period of Yin and Qi recession.
At this time, everything is clean and new, and the Earth presents the image of spring and bright. Qingming Festival integrates solar terms and folklore, which is the unity of the time, the place and the people.
The etiquette and custom culture of the Qing and Ming Dynasties fully embodies the Chinese ancestors'thought of pursuing the harmony and unity of heaven, earth and man, paying attention to adapting to the times and the earth and following the natural law.
清明节又称踏青节、行清节、三月节、祭祖节等,是中华民族传统的隆重盛大的春祭节日,属于慎终追远、礼敬祖先、弘扬孝道的一种文化传统节日。清明节习俗甚多,全国各地因地域文化不同而又存在着习俗内容上或细节上的差异,各地习俗虽不尽相同,但扫墓祭祖、踏青郊游是共同基本礼俗主题。
清明节气是上古干支历法中表示季节变迁的廿四个特定节令之一,处在生气旺盛的时节,也是阴气衰退的时节。这一时节吐故纳新、万物皆洁齐,大地呈现春和景明之象。清明节将节气与民俗融为一体,是天时地利人和的合一。清明礼俗文化充分体现了中华民族先祖追求“天、地、人”的和谐合一,讲究顺应天时地宜、遵循自然规律的思想。