First, the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day:
Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the Cold Food Festival. In the Spring and Autumn Period, a festival was set up to commemorate Jietui, the loyal minister of Jin State. The Cold Food Festival paid attention to forbidding fire and cold food. It is an early festival that spread in the north, and later in the development process, customs such as hiking, sweeping sacrifices and cuju have been added. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually disappeared until the Song and Yuan Dynasties, when Tomb-Sweeping Day replaced it. It is also integrated into the custom of the Cold Food Festival.
2. Tomb-Sweeping Day customs:
1. Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship
Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship is a way of remembering ancestors, and this custom has a long history. Ancestor worship is also the center of Tomb-Sweeping Day to express the memory of ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day belongs to "ancestor worship festival", which is an important festival to express filial piety. According to the different places of worship, it can also be divided into tomb sacrifice and ancestral temple sacrifice. Tomb sacrifice is the most common way of offering sacrifices, and Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave sweeping is the tomb sacrifice. Bye.
2. During the outing in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is the season of spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called "Walking Festival", so people will visit graves to worship their ancestors and enjoy the spring scenery and have an outing outside.
3. Flying kites
People also choose to fly kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is also a very meaningful activity. It is said that some people will cut the kite string when it flies high. Let it fly away. I think this will bring me good luck.
Third, Tomb-Sweeping Day's poems:
1. Sending friends to the garden on Qingming Day
[ Tang]? Jia Dao
Today, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, gardens are more important than things. The weather is sunny, the spring breeze is blowing gently the Liu xufei, the Qingming begging new fire, the people's kitchen ran ran raised the fire to cook the smoke.
Du Cao opened three paths, and the article recalled two sages. When can life be able to drive, drink wine before the fallen petal.
2. Qingming Festival
[ Tang] Du Mu
During Qingming Festival, there are many rains, and pedestrians on the road want to die.
Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village.
3. The magpie treads branches and six songs lean against the green trees
[ Tang]? Feng Yansi
The six songs are dry and close to the green trees, and the willow wind is light, showing all the golden rays. Who moved the cymbal Zheng to the jade column, and the petrel flew away in shock through the curtain.
My eyes are full of gossamer and catkins. When the red apricots are in bloom, it will rain suddenly. Sleeping in silence, stunned and dreaming, nowhere to be found.