There is a grand festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, Tomb Sweeping Day, which is a sad day for people to remember their loved ones, but it is also a happy holiday.
During the holiday, we not only made Tomb-sweeping Day's hand, also followed the Qingming customs, had a significant Tomb-sweeping Day. In order to commemorate their ancestors, so we only eat cold food at home, and do not eat warm food, every year is to sweep the tombs of their ancestors, their elders everywhere wind; in honor of a hero, we went to Qinghai park to worship martyrs; Thanksgiving martyrs Qu Yuan, we threw zongzi into the sea. At the same time, according to the custom, we Tomb-sweeping Day, but also for sports activities, such as outing, Cuju, Liu ed, swing, it should be to avoid the evil ghosts.
This Tomb-sweeping Day, both Jisao new grave death beisuan tears, and visit outing laughter, this is really a distinctive holiday.
Winter unable to part away, the spring walked with light steps coming. In this warm season, we ushered in another traditional festival in China - Tomb Sweeping day.
Tomb Sweeping Day since ancient times there is the custom of grave worship. Every day, people take all kinds of ways to commemorate, in order to express their thoughts of the ancestors.
This reminds me of the song "Qingming, the pedestrian on the road. I ask where there are restaurants, the shepherd boy points at Xinghuacun." Let me think of the martyrs, they use blood to protect the people, protect the country. So we have to cherish everything in front of us, to learn, to be a useful person, grow up to repay their parents, return to society.
Tomb-sweeping Day is a Chinese Folk Festival is an important traditional festival, eight important "(spring, summer, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid Autumn Festival, the winter solstice and, in one of the new year's Eve). Tomb-sweeping Day general in April 5th of the Gregorian calendar, but the festival is very long, there are ten days before and eight days after ten days before the ten days after the two claims, the nearly twenty days are Tomb-sweeping Day.
The origin of Tomb-sweeping Day, reportedly began in the ancient emperor "Muji", later folk also follow, in this day worship graves, ancient lineage and become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the cold food festival and Tomb-sweeping Day are two different festivals, to the Tang Dynasty, the days of grave worship as the cold food festival. The festival is on the right day of the one hundred and five day after the winter solstice, about two days before Qingming, because of similar, so the Ching Ming and cold food into day.
Tomb-sweeping Day customs, pay attention to the fire, grave, as well as spring outing swinging Cuju, playing polo Liu ed......
This is the origin and customs of the Ching Ming festival.
Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in china. Tomb-sweeping Day, also called TaQingJie, according to the Gregorian calendar, it is on April 4th every year to 6, is the bright spring days vegetation Tulu of the season, it is a good time for people, so the Qingming outing, and carry out a series of sports practices. To this day, the Qingming Festival is a popular custom of worshipping ancestors and mourning the death of their loved ones.
To talk about Tomb-sweeping Day, need to start from a lost holiday festival.
Cold food festival, also known as hot food festival, smoking section, cold day, the date and 108 days from the winter solstice, which is from Tomb-sweeping Day but a day or two, the main festival of this festival is to ban fire, not light a fire for cooking, can only eat hot food, cold food prepared, they are named.
The origin of Tomb-sweeping Day, reportedly began in the ancient emperor "Muji", later folk emulating each other, in this day worship graves, ancient lineage and become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.
From the beginning of 2008, China will be recognized as a statutory holiday Ching Ming Festival, a day off. To 2009, and changed to three days. Continue to date.
Qingming grave is our traditional customs, it expresses our nostalgia for the ancestors, but also a great opportunity to visit the spring outing.
The tomb sweeping day is one of the traditional festivals in China.
On April 5th, people start to visit their ancestors’ tombs. Generally speaking, people will bring the home-made food, some fake money and paper-made mansion to their ancestors. When they start to honour their ancestor, they will light up some candles and incense, put some flowers around the tombs. The most important thing is to put the home-made food in front of the tombs. The food, also known as sacrifices, is usually made up with a chicken, a fish and some pork.
It’s a symbol of the offspring’s respect to the ancestors. People believe that the forbears will share the food with them. The children dedicate the food and money to their forbears in order to show their love and caring. The young offspring will go down on their knees and pray for their ancestors. They can say their wishes in front of the tombs and the ancestors will make their dreams come true.
In some provinces of China, people use different activities to commemorate this day, for instance, spring-outing, swinging, tree planting and making special food.
One special food is Ay Tsao rice balls. It looks like Tang-yuan, but its colour is green. Mix the ay tsao juice with the rice powder, then make it into small balls. The Ay Tsao rice ball is done. People believe that eating ay tsao rice balls can get rid of the bad luck and everything will go smoothly.
Other activities such as spring outing, tree planting are the other ways to commemorate the forbears. For one thing, it is a sign that people should look into the future and embrace the hope; for another thing, we do hope our ancestor rest in peace.
The rain flies heavily as Qingming draws, move sadly along the way the passengers;I wanna know where the tavern is, He points at a distant hamlet nestling amidst apricot blossoms.