Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the Cold Food Festival. In the Spring and Autumn Period, a festival was set up to commemorate the Jiexiu, a loyal minister of the State of Jin. The Cold Food Festival emphasizes the prohibition of fire and cold food. It is a festival that spread in the north in the early days. Later, in the process of development, customs such as hiking, sweeping sacrifices and cuju were added. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually disappeared until the Song and Yuan Dynasties, when Tomb-Sweeping Day took its place. It also incorporates the custom of the Cold Food Festival.

Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day customs:

1, sweeping graves to worship ancestors

Grave-sweeping is a way of remembering ancestors, and this custom has a long history. Ancestor worship is also the center of Tomb-Sweeping Day's expression of ancestral memory. 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. Grave-sweeping is the most common way of offering sacrifices. Grave-sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day is grave-sweeping. Goodbye.

Step 2 go for an outing

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the season of spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called "outing festival", so people will go to the grave to worship their ancestors and enjoy the spring scenery and outing outside.

Step 3 fly a kite

People will also choose to fly kites in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is also a very meaningful activity. It is said that someone will cut the kite string when it flies high. Let it fly away. I think it will bring me good luck.

Third, Tomb-Sweeping Day's poems:

1, send friends to the garden on Qingming Day

[Tang]? Dao Jia

Today is Tomb-Sweeping Day, and some friends are in the garden. The weather is fine, blowing gently with Liu, begging for a new fire in Qingming, and the people's kitchen raises a fire to cook cigarettes.

Du Ruo is very long, and this article remembers two wise men. When can life catch up? Drink wine before the flowers fall.

2. Qingming

Du Mu

A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.

Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.

3, hi magpie, six songs withered near the green tree.

[Tang]? Feng Yansi

Six songs lean against the green trees, the willow wind is light, and the golden glow is exhibited. Whoever moves a cymbal, a zither and a jade column, petrels fly over the curtain.

Eyes full of gossamer catkins, when red apricots bloom, it will be sunny and rainy for a while. Sleeping in silence, dreaming in a daze, nowhere to be found.