The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming is a very important solar term at first, so there is an agricultural proverb that "planting trees is not as good 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.
Poetry about Tomb-Sweeping Day;
Qingming Tang du mu
A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.
Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.
This is the most widely circulated Qingming poem. During the Qingming Festival, the poet should have gone hiking with relatives and friends to worship the ancestors and sweep the grave, but he traveled long distances alone and was caught in the spring rain, which added to the poet's anxiety and melancholy.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is a traditional festival at the turn of mid-spring and late spring in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.
"Almanac": "On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, the bucket refers to Ding, which is used for Qingming, when everything is clean and bright, and when it is covered, everything is clean and bright, hence the name." As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good time for spring ploughing. Therefore, there is a saying that "before and after the Qingming Festival, melons, fruits and beans are planted".