Hotspot Engine Plan Time: April 4 and 6 of the Gregorian calendar (the day of "Qingming" in the 24th solar term of the lunar calendar).
Interpretation: Qingming Festival is the most important sacrificial festival in China, and it is the most suitable day to worship ancestors and sweep tombs. Tomb sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave, an activity to sacrifice the dead. Most of the Han and some ethnic minorities sweep the tombs on the Qingming Festival.
The origin and legend of Qingming Festival:
China's traditional Qingming Festival began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming is a very important solar term at the beginning, Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, it is a good season for spring plowing and spring planting, so there is "before and after Qingming, planting melons and beans". "Afforestation, no better than Qingming" agricultural proverb. Later, because the day of Qingming and cold food is close, and cold food is the day of the folk ban on fire and tomb sweeping, gradually, cold food and Qingming will become one, and cold food has become another name for Qingming, but also has become a custom of Qingming season, no fireworks on the day of Qingming, only eat cold food.
Customs: According to the old customs, when sweeping the tomb, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the grave of their relatives, and then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the grave, break a few tender green new branches and insert them on the grave, and then kowtow to worship, and finally eat the wine and food and go home.
Remembering the martyrs and cherishing happiness" Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's poem "Qingming": "During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village. "Write about the special atmosphere of the Qingming Festival.