How did Qingming Festival come about? Is there a Qingming Festival all over the world?

Qingming is the fifth solar term of the year, which is on April 5 and 6 every year according to the Gregorian calendar, and in the first half of March according to the lunar calendar. The ancients counted the solar terms, all from the winter solstice, from the winter solstice to Qingming, and there were seven solar terms in between. Each solar term is calculated as 15 days, a full 105 days, and the Qingming Festival is 106 days.

Therefore, the ancients said: "The 16th day of the winter solstice is Qingming", and said: "The spring equinox plus the 15th day is the Qingming wind."

The word "Qingming", the ancient book explains: "All things are clean and clear until now"; In other books, there are also "Tong Shihua, Hong Shijian, Ping Shisheng", "Qingming Wind Dwells in the Southeast Dimension, and the Main Wind Blows All Things". Qingming symbolizes the Yellow River Basin of our country, the cold winter of ten thousand trees has passed, and the spring of wind and sunshine has arrived.

The working people arrange the crops according to the solar terms. In the 24 solar terms, there is a saying that "Qingming is busy planting wheat, and the valley rain is planting fields".

Qingming was already popular in the distant Zhou Dynasty. The ancients attached great importance to this festival, and the poets and lyricists of the past dynasties have described the grand occasion of the Qingming Festival, and people have left a lot of customs in the Qingming Festival since ancient times.

Sweeping tombs during the Qingming Dynasty and chasing ancestors has a long history and has become a habit along the way. Tomb sweeping, also called tomb sacrifice, sacrifice sweeping, and going to the grave. Qingming tomb sweeping is because of the sting, the spring equinox has passed, the ice and snow have melted, the grass and trees sprout, people think of their ancestors tomb Ying, whether there is a fox rabbit through the hole to make a hole, will it collapse due to the rainy season, so to the grave on the one hand to remove weeds, trim the branches, to add a few shovels of soil to the grave; On the other hand, prepare some offerings, burn a few pieces of paper money, hang some notes on the branches, and hold a simple ritual to express the memory of the deceased.

In ancient times, there was a custom of going out in February and March 3. "On February 2, the river went up, and the liver smelled the sheng on the east wind day", "The weather was new on March 3, and there were many beautiful people on the waterside of Chang'an", which describes the prosperous scene of the Tang people. In ancient times, on this day, people gathered relatives and friends, helped the old and the young, took advantage of the good spring to go to the suburbs, and then sat around the picnic banquet and returned at dusk.

On the way back home, people are willing to pick a few wild flowers and put them on their heads, and fold a few wicker sticks and stick them in front of the house and behind the house. It is said that this custom is to commemorate the ancestor of the peasants, Shennong, who "taught the people to grow crops". Later, it gradually developed into a commemoration and a wish for a long life.

The custom of wearing willows was eliminated, but willow planting became prevalent and became the Arbor Day for spring afforestation of our people.

Before and after the Qingming Festival, there are many traditional colorful cultural and sports activities, such as tug-of-war, swinging, kite flying, polo, cockfighting and other activities. The customs of the Qingming Festival are rich and colorful, and the records of the past dynasties are very numerous. The poet's work of Huai Qingming is even more glamorous, and it cannot be remembered.

In these senses, Qingming is both a solar term and a traditional festival. It is an opportunity to express sorrow. Young people from all over the country gathered in groups to pay tribute to the martyrs' cemetery, or invited revolutionary ancestors to make reports, tell revolutionary stories, or organize visits, trips, visits to scenic spots, and collection of specimens, enriching the content of the festival.

It is the solar term of China, so only China has it.

Countries in the Han cultural circle have similar festivals, but European countries don't seem to have them.

There are also countries in China where there are Chinese.

The origin of the Qingming Festival is said to be in the Chayin Spring and Autumn Period, You Qingwu Chong'er was saved by Jie Zi Tui after a life but forgot to repay the gratitude, only to find out that Jie Zi Tui had passed away, so there was the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival, and later the folk mixed the two into the Qingming Festival. The traditional rituals of the Qingming Festival are mainly based on tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing, which contains the connotation of nature and humanity.

The origin of the Qingming Festival originated from the ancient emperor's "tomb sacrifice" ceremony, and later the folk also followed suit, worshipping the ancestors and sweeping the tomb on this day, which has been followed by successive dynasties and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.

Qingming Festival is an important traditional festival in China, and is one of the eight important festivals: Shangyuan, Qingming, Lixia, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice and Chinese New Year's Eve. The name of the "Qingming Festival" also originates from the Qingming Festival in the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar.

The 108th day after the winter solstice is the Qingming solar term. There are 15 days of Qingming solar terms. As the Qingming of the solar term, the time is after the vernal equinox.

At this time, winter has gone, spring is full of joy, the weather is clear, the four fields are clear and clean, and nature is full of vigor and vitality. "Qingming" is a very appropriate word to call this period.

The origin of the Qingming Festival can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period more than 2,000 years ago. The prince of the Jin Kingdom fled with his wild ears and fled abroad, and Jie Zitui, who followed him, did not hesitate to cut off a piece of meat from his leg to satisfy his hunger. Later, Chong'er returned to the Jin Kingdom as the monarch and rewarded all the retinues who followed him in exile, but Jie Zitui refused to accept the reward, and he took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan and refused to come out.

Jin Wengong had no choice but to set fire to the mountain, but Jieying shouted that the mother and son were burned to death. In order to commemorate Jie Zitui, Jin Wengong ordered that fire was forbidden on this day every year, and every household could only eat raw and cold food, which was the ** of the Cold Food Festival and the origin of the Qingming Festival.

The origin of the Qingming Festival, people have always been associated with the Cold Food Festival, in fact, it is not accurate, because the current Qingming Festival is the merger of many traditional festivals such as the Shangsi Festival, the Cold Food Festival, and the Qingming Festival.

1) Today's "Qingming" originated in the Tang Dynasty, and the specific year can be tentatively set as the twentieth year of Kaiyuan (732).

"Qingming" is one of the traditional festivals in our country, the origin of the pre-Qin period has appeared, Qingming as soon as the temperature rises, it is a good season for spring plowing and spring planting. Therefore, it is very important for China's agricultural civilization. For farmers, Qingming should be the most important day, so he gradually merged the Shangsi Festival and the Cold Food Festival.

The Cold Food Festival first appeared in the New Treatise of Huan Tan of the Eastern Han Dynasty (40 BC to 32 AD).

Shangsi Festival is also an ancient festival, once the most important festival in China, which was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period, before Cao Wei belonged to the national memorial, the main content is to worship the ancestors, pray to remove the disease. Because the Cao Wei period is fixed on March 3 every year, it is very close to the Qingming Festival.

Because the Qingming Festival is very important, the people began to merge these three important days (from the first to the seventh day of the first month of March) and the Qingming Festival. The specific date can be started by the year when the Qingming and the Cold Food Festival merged, that is, the twentieth year of Kaiyuan.

At present, the unification of Qingming, Shangsi, and cold food stipulated by the state was in the 20th year of the opening of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, when the imperial court stipulated: cold food goes to the tomb, and there is no text in the "Book of Rites". According to modern legends, immersed in customs, it is advisable to go to the tomb to worship and sweep together.

So, we can use this year as the date of the three festivals in one.

The Cold Food Festival was in winter before the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was changed to spring after the Eastern Han Dynasty. The folk saying that in order to commemorate Jie Zitui, it can only be used for small talk. The Cold Food Festival is a long-term habit in ancient China, because the seasons are different, different trees should be used to drill different fires, and it is forbidden to light fires during this period.

The Shangsi Festival is the first day of March every year, and after entering the Qin and Han dynasties, the Shangsi Festival became a "big festival", and it can even be said to be the most important festival.

They merged with Qingming in the Tang Dynasty to gradually form the Qingming Festival, the main contents of which are: soul worship, purification, peilan grass, outing, wild travel, cold food, etc.

The Qingming Festival was originally only popular for people with status and status, and later the people followed suit, so it evolved into the Qingming Festival.

Legend has it that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Chong'er returned to the Jin Kingdom, became the monarch, rewarded all the retinues who followed him in exile, only Jie Zi Tui refused to accept the reward, he took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan, Jin Wen Gong had no choice but to set fire to the mountain, he wanted Jie Zi Tui to be filial to his mother, he would definitely take the old mother out, who knew that the fire burned Jie Zi Tui mother and son to death, in order to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, Jin Wen Gong ordered this day to be set as the Qingming Festival.

The ancients had the custom of respecting ancestors and sacrificing, and then arranged a festival to worship ancestors and remember the ancestors, so they arranged Qingming to commemorate the ancestors and heroes.

Why is it called Qingming Festival? It turns out that there has always been this misunderstanding during the Qingming Festival.