The meaning of outing during the Qingming Festival to remember old friends and pray sincerely is as follows:
People’s nostalgia for their deceased relatives is vented during the Qingming Festival tomb sweeping activities, which is beneficial to physical and mental health.
The meaning of Qingming Festival is to remember those who have left and whom we love deeply. Express respect and condolences to those people's heroes who served the country and the people.
Qingming Memorial Poems:
1. During the Qingming Festival, it rains heavily, and pedestrians on the road want to die.
From: "Qingming" by Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty.
Translation: During the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, drizzle falls one after another, and all the travelers on the road are in despair.
2. During the Qingming festival, the peaches and plums smile, but the wild fields and graves only produce sorrow.
From: "Qingming" by Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty.
Translation: During the Qingming Festival, red peach blossoms and plum blossoms bloom with smiles. The overgrown graves in the fields were desolate.
3. It is sad to return home after the chaos with clothes full of blood, tears and dust. After the wind and rain, the pear blossoms and the cold food, how many graves are there descendants?
From: "Sending Chen Xiucai Back to the Shashang to Scan the Tomb" by Gao Qi of the Ming Dynasty.
Translation: My clothes are all stained with blood, tears and dust. The war is over, but I will still feel sad when I return to my hometown. In the wind and rain, all the pear blossoms have fallen, and the Cold Food Festival has passed. How many graves will their descendants come to visit?
4. The willow wall is leaning against the new smoke, and the apricot cheese is fragrant and vulgar. There are mountains all around the country in the white sky. During the Qingming Festival, no one will miss home.
From: "The Dukes in the Qingming Palace" written by Gao Qi of the Ming Dynasty.
Translation: A tree of willows and willow trees, covered with the light smoke of the new fire, meanders along the official wall; the aroma of almond and wheat porridge spreads, and every household feeds each other, and there is great joy. Surrounding the city walls of Nanjing, the capital, you can see endless green mountains; the Qingming festival makes all the guests miss their hometown deeply.
5. There are many graveyards on the north and south hills, and Qingming festivals are held in different ways. Paper ashes fly into white butterflies, and tears and blood turn into red cuckoos.
From: "Drinking on the Tomb-Sweeping Day" by Gao Zhu of the Song Dynasty.
Translation: There are many cemeteries on the North and South Mountains. During the Qingming Festival, people are busy visiting the tombs to pay homage. The ashes of burned paper fly everywhere like white butterflies, lovesickness turns into tears, and teardrops turn into blood, like red cuckoos.