On Three Poems of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Qingming Festival in Tang Dynasty: Du Mu-It rained in succession during Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road wanted to die. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.

Qingming, Tang Dynasty: Sun Yinchang-In the late spring of Qingming, I looked at the mountains in the north. Flirting fires a new flame, and tung flowers grow old branches. Shen Ming was ashamed of the past and kept the banquet secret from his friends. Not as good as a bird in the forest, moving Joe and feathers.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tang Dynasty, Du Fu-it was the day of flowers, and there were thousands of people in Changsha. After crossing the water, my eyebrows are bright and my feet are gnawing at my knees. This is a good place to visit Xiangxi Temple. All the generals will come from the army. The trip to Ma Yuan is just around the corner, and Ge Qiang is thinking about it.

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Cultural connotation

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancestors' beliefs and spring sacrificial customs of early human beings.

According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. According to archaeological excavations, a 10,000-year-old tomb was found at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is the earliest tomb in China, indicating that ancient ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs thousands of years ago.

The custom of "grave-sweeping sacrifice" has a long history, and Qingming "grave-sweeping sacrifice" is the synthesis and sublimation of traditional spring customs. The establishment of the ancient branch calendar provided decisive conditions for the formation of festivals. Ancestor belief and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of ancestral worship custom in Qingming Festival.