Time: solar term qingming day Gregorian calendar (the Gregorian calendar) around April 5
Interpretation
Ching Ming Festival is China's most important festival of sacrifice, is the most appropriate day of worship and graves. Grave-sweepers commonly known as graves, ritual activities of the deceased. Han and ethnic minorities is grave-sweepers during the Ching Ming Festival.
Custom
According to the old custom,people need bring wine fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery when they grave, for offering food in the family tomb, and incineration of paper money, new soil on the grave, fold a few green shoots in the grave and Kow bow to worship, finally eating drinking home. Of the tomb of the Tang dynasty poet du MU's poem: "Tomb Sweeping Festival have rain, passers-by with deep sorrow. A tavern where? Shepherd yaozhi Heng Fa Chuen. "Write the special atmosphere of the Festival.
Tomb-sweeping day, also called Spring Festival, according to the Gregorian calendar, it was in the year from April 4 to 6th, is the season of spring grass green, was on an outing [ancient Ta] good time, and so the ancient tomb for an outing, and a series of sports activities of customs.
Tomb-sweeping day and the origin of the legend:
China's traditional tomb-sweeping day began about Zhou dynasty, has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming Festival began a very important cycle, bright one, higher temperatures, it is spring spring planting a great time, and therefore, "qingming sow beans." "Afforestation, can never be bright" proverb. Later, as clear and cold food day closer, and cold food is popular forbidden tomb sweeping day, little by little, cold food and Tomb-one, and cold food is becoming clearer, and also becomes for the Tomb Sweeping Festival is a custom, fixed the date of Tomb-Fireworks, only eat cold food.