Tomb-sweeping Day, also known as the Qingqing Festival, Qingqing Festival, March Festival, ancestor worship festival, etc., the festival in mid-spring and late spring at the turn of.Qingming Festival is derived from the ancient ancestors' beliefs and Spring Festival customs. It has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term point and a traditional festival.Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing are the two major ritual and custom themes of Tomb Sweeping Day. These two major traditional ritual and custom themes have been inherited in China since ancient times and continue to this day.
Tomb-sweeping Day is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation. It is not only a solemn festival to sweep tombs and pay respects to ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, go for an outing and enjoy the fun of spring.Dou finger B (or the sun's longitude reaches 15°) is the Qingming solar term, and the intersection time is around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar.This season, vigorous vitality, Yin Qi recession, all things "new", the earth presents the image of spring and Jingming, it is a good season for spring outings and Qingqing tomb offerings.The Qingming ancestor worship festival is very long, there are 10 days before 8 days and 10 days after 10 days after 10 days, the nearly 20 days are within the Qingming ancestor worship festival period.
Tomb-sweeping Day is a major traditional festival of spring sacrifices. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep tombs and offer sacrifices to ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening the common memory of the family, but also promoting the cohesion and identity of the family members and even the nation.The Qingming Festival integrates the natural solar terms and human customs, which is the unity of the natural time, geographical location and human beings. It fully reflects the Chinese nation's ancestors' pursuit of the harmony of "heaven, earth and human", and their thought of conforming to the appropriate nature, time and earth and following the natural laws.
The Qingming Festival, the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival are known as the four traditional Chinese festivals.In addition to China, there are also some countries and regions in the world, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and so on.On May 20, 2006, the Qingming Festival declared by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China was approved by the State Council to be listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.