Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country, so when did it come down?

Updated on culture 2024-03-17
9 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Qingming Festival is not only a traditional festival in China, but also one of the four traditional festivals in China. The Qingming Festival has a long history, which can be traced back to the ancestral beliefs and spring rites of ancient times.

    Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, is generally the 108th day after the winter solstice at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. In China, this is one of the more important days of sacrifice, and people will sweep the tombs of their ancestors on this day. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Han people in China began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of about 2,500 years.

    The custom of Qingming Festival has a long history, and the legend has been formed as far back as the pre-Qin period, and it is also said that it began in the Wei and Jin dynasties. According to the "Book of Jin", every spring, people have to go to the suburbs to enjoy the spring scenery, especially in the Tang and Song dynasties.

    According to the "Old Tang Book", it is recorded: [On the afternoon of February in the second year of the Great Calendar, fortunately Kunming Pond was green. "It can be seen that the custom of youth travel has long been popular.

    In the Song Dynasty, the wind of stepping into the green prevailed.

    During the Qingming Festival, the ancients went to the waterside for spring outings to make sacrifices, to remove disasters and seek blessings, mainly to pray for the reproduction of human beings. On this day, people who have been suffocating for a whole winter go out of their homes and hold rituals at the water's edge to worship the gods in charge of marriage and childbirth. Therefore, at this time, it is also the time when men and women in the amorous trembling town meet and court"。

    In addition, the two clans often take advantage of the Shangsi festival to gather in the wild, engage in some singing and dancing activities, and communicate each other's feelings. Later, the Donglao Shangsi Festival evolved into a festival of outing in the suburbs and feasting and drinking by the waterside, that is, the outing activities gradually became popular.

    Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the custom of going out has also been the same. "Wenzhou Mansion Chronicles" records: [Qingming tomb sweeping and sacrifice have invited relatives and friends, pulling'> boats, drumming, and gold swimmers.

    Every spring returns to the earth and the grass and trees are green in the Qingming season, people are full of interest and go to the suburbs to go out, play and fly kites. Especially since the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, many places and local documents have recorded the scene of walking and flying kites during the Qingming Dynasty. To this day, the spring outing activity is still loved by people.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    Qingming Festival is the most grand and grand ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a kind of cultural traditional festival that respects ancestors and chases the distance cautiously. The Qingming Festival embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting ancestors and ancestors. The Qingming Festival has a long history, originating from the spring festival activities of ancient times, and the spring and autumn festivals have existed in ancient times.

    The formulation of the ancient Ganzhi calendar provided the prerequisites for the formation of festivals, and ancestor belief and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of ancestor worship customs during the Qingming Festival. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth, and the belief in the rejection of ancestors. The characteristics of the Qingming solar term, the ancestral beliefs, and the sacrificial culture have evolved into the Qingming Ancestor Festival, and the Qingming ancestor worship has become a fixed custom from generation to generation.

    Qingming solar term is one of the 24 specific festivals that represent the change of seasons in the Ganzhi calendar, this season, Jianyuan wanders out the old and absorbs the new, vigorous, the temperature rises, everything is clean, the earth presents the image of spring and scenery, it is a good season for the suburbs to go out (spring outing) and Xingqing (tomb sacrifice).

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Yes, of course. Qingming Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, which is not only subordinate to the "24 solar terms", but also a traditional ancestor worship festival.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Yes. Qingming Festival is one of the important traditional festivals in China, and it is also a traditional sacrificial festival of the Chinese nation. The Qingming Festival is held around April 4 or 5 of the solar calendar every year, that is, the "Qingming" season.

    Qingming Festival is a traditional festival of the Han nationality and one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese nation.

    It is said that the Qingming Festival originally originated from the "Cold Food Festival" in the Shandong region of ancient China, and the Cold Food Festival was set up to commemorate the great politicians and cultural celebrities, and gradually evolved into a national memorial day. The term Qingming Mingjing is derived from the "Zhou Li", "when the rain is more, the Qingming is clear", which also explains the important position of this festival in the Chinese cultural system from another perspective.

    On the day of the Qingming Festival, people have to go to worship the deceased, that is, to sweep the tomb, and this tradition has been passed down in Chinese society for thousands of years and has become one of the deep cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. While visiting the graves, people should express their deep thoughts and nostalgia for their relatives and friends, and pay condolences to them, this custom is an important bond between the family and society, and can help people to enhance the sense of mutual care and solidarity.

    Qingming Festival is also an Arbor Day, on this day, people will go to plant trees to show their importance to the protection of the natural environment. In addition, there are some folk activities, such as kite flying, eating Qingtuan, playing polo, etc., which are all ways for people to express their happiness and relaxation.

    In general, the Qingming Festival has the role of condensing national feelings, promoting traditional culture and promoting social harmony. In the new era of China, the celebration of Qingming Festival has also been further promoted, and people pay more attention to connecting this traditional festival with modern society and making it better serve society. For example, in some cities, Xiaoji local ** will actively carry out cemetery renovation work before the Qingming Festival to ensure the smooth progress of this festival:

    Some enterprises and non-governmental organizations will also hold a series of cultural activities, such as ** meetings, poetry recitals, performances, etc., aiming to strengthen national cohesion, enhance cultural exchanges and inheritance through different forms of cultural display, and build the Qingming Festival into a festival full of vitality.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Qingming Festival is an important day to worship the ancestors in most parts of China, and it is also a traditional festival in China, so it is designated as a legal holiday.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Qingming Festival is generally between April 4th and April 6th. The Qingming Festival originates from the ancestral beliefs and spring rituals in ancient times, and has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival. Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, sweeping tombs to worship, remembering ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times.

    The Qingming Festival is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family affection, awakening the common memory of the family, but also promoting the cohesion and sense of identity of family members and even the nation. The Qingming Festival integrates natural solar terms and humanistic customs, which is the unity of time, place and people, and fully reflects the harmonious unity of the ancestors of the Chinese nation in pursuit of "heaven, earth and man". Qingming Festival customs are Qingming, which is not only a solar term, but also a festival.

    The Qingming of the solar terms is a good time for spring plowing and spring planting; The Qingming of the festival is a traditional day for the people to store their emotions and comfort themselves. In terms of time and weather phenological characteristics, the Qingming solar term provides important conditions for the formation of Qingming festival customs. Qingming Festival is also known as the Qingqing Festival, the Qing Festival, the March Festival, the Ancestor Festival, etc., the festival period is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, and the sun reaches 15 ° of the Yellow Warp and the Bird is Qingming.

    China's tradition pays attention to the idea of conforming to the time and place, and following the early law of Doutong. The festival customs of the Qingming Festival are rich, and tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing are the two major ritual themes of the Qingming Festival, and these two traditional ritual themes have been inherited in China since ancient times and have not been stopped until now.

  7. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Qingming Festival is a traditional grand spring festival of the Chinese nation, which belongs to a kind of cultural and traditional festival of chasing the distance carefully, respecting ancestors and promoting filial piety. The traditional customs of Qingming include walking, kite flying, tomb sweeping, swinging, tree planting, tug-of-war, willow planting, etc

    1. Go green. Qingming season, spring is bright, the scenery is beautiful, so our country has been in the habit of going out on the Qingming Festival for many years, in recent years, all parts of the country will carry out some flower festivals and picking festivals according to different climates, so as to provide more colorful activities for people to go out on outings.

    2. Kite flying. Kite flying is the spring people's favorite activity, Qingming Festival kite flying is also one of the customs, some areas will also organize kite festivals, when children fly kites, you can wait for the kite to fly higher and higher when the line in the hand is cut, let the kite fly freely to the blue sky, it is said that there is evil and eliminate disasters, bring good luck.

    3. Sweep the grave. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese sacrificial festival, and tomb sweeping is the name of Si, that is, to clean the weeds around the cemetery to express sorrow and respect for the ancestors. The Qingming custom is said to have originated with the "tomb sacrifice" ceremony held by the ancient emperor when he went out to the suburbs, and later the people followed suit, and thus began to sweep the tomb and worship the ancestors.

    The Tang people began to follow the custom of sacrificing tombs in the previous generations, and expanded the whole society.

    4. Swing. This is an ancient Chinese custom of the Qingming Festival. Swing, that is, pulling the leather rope and moving.

    Its history is very ancient, it was first called Qianqiu, and then in order to avoid taboos, it was changed to a swing. In ancient times, swings were mostly made of tree branches and ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into a swing with two ropes plus pedals.

    Swinging not only promotes health, but also cultivates bravery, and is still loved by people, especially children.

    5. Plant trees. Although China stipulates that March 12 of each year is the Arbor Day, but in the Qingming season, the precipitation gradually increases, and the weather becomes warmer, which is a good time to plant trees.

    6. Tug-of-war. In the early days, it was called "hook" and "hook strong", and it was called "tug-of-war" in the Tang Dynasty. It was invented in the late Spring and Autumn Period, began to prevail in the military, and later spread among the people.

    During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, a large-scale tug-of-war competition was held during the Qingming Dynasty. Since then, tug-of-war has become part of the Qingming custom. Tug-of-war is held in the Qingming season of spring ploughing and spring planting, which has the meaning of praying for a good harvest.

    7. Insert willow and wear willow. In the concept of the ancients, the willow tree has a magical power, taking willow branches and putting them on the house, and a hundred ghosts do not enter the house. The Tang people believed that when they sacrificed by the river on the third day of March, they wore willow branches on their heads to get rid of poisonous insects.

    After the Song and Yuan dynasties, the custom of planting willows on the Qingming Festival was very popular.

    A brief introduction to the origin of the Qingming Festival

    The origin of the Qingming Festival, it is said that it began in the ancient emperors to sacrifice the tomb, and later the folk also followed suit, on this day to worship the ancestors and sweep the tomb, which has been followed by successive dynasties and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival were two different festivals, and in the Tang Dynasty, the day of worshipping and sweeping the tomb was set as the Cold Food Festival. The correct day of the Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, about around the Qingming Festival. "

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    The traditional Chinese Qingming Festival began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. In ancient times, it was not as important as the previous day's cold food festival, because the dates of the Qingming and cold food festivals were close, and the folk gradually merged the customs of the two, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties (581 to 907), the Qingming Festival and the cold food festival gradually merged into the same festival, becoming the day of tomb sweeping and ancestor worship, that is, today's Qingming Festival. Since then, it has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation to go to the tomb of the eggplant on the Qingming Festival.

    Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping Festival, the Hidden Ghost Festival, and the Hades Festival, together with the Midyear Festival on July 15 and the Winter Clothes Festival on the first day of October, are collectively known as the Three Underworld Festival, all of which are related to the sacrifice of ghosts and gods. Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, it is the spring bright and beautiful grass and trees spit out the green season, and it is also a good time for people to go on a spring outing (called Qingqing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of Qingming and Qingqing, and carried out a series of sports activities.

    The Qingming Festival, also known as the March Festival in ancient times, has a history of more than 2,000 years.

    Around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar is the Qingming Festival, which is one of the 24 solar terms. Among the 24 solar terms, the only ones that are both solar terms and festivals are Qingming and the winter solstice. Its original meaning is that nature has reached the time of warming, and everything is beginning to recover, and it is ready for spring plowing and sowing.

    In ancient China, Qingming was divided into three candidates: "one is Tong Shihua; The second waiting vole turned into a quail; Three waiting for the rainbow to see. This means that at this time of year, the paulownia flowers bloom, then the shade-loving voles are gone, and they all return to their underground holes, and then the sky can see the rainbow after the rain.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    There are many traditional festivals in our country, more ceremonial festivals like the Dragon Boat Festival, people in the south will generally row dragon boats for competitions, the north and south will wrap zongzi to eat, and then the taste is a little different, southerners like to wrap salty zongzi or meat zongzi, northerners are still sweet and brown, like I am a northerner so I still prefer sweet zongzi.

    The Spring Festival is also very ceremonial, this day should be a happier day for children, you can have new clothes to wear, and parents and grandparents will also give themselves the money for the year, this day everyone will set off fireworks, but because the air pollution in recent years is more serious, most cities are concentrated on fireworks, and everyone gathers together to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, eat dumplings, go out to visit the New Year, although now I feel that the taste of the year is not very strong, but there should be a sense of ceremony.

    The Lantern Festival and the Spring Festival are very close to each other, on this day people in the north will eat the Lantern Festival, while the people in the south generally choose to eat glutinous rice balls, although these two foods are similar in appearance, but because of the different practices, they also have different names. On this day, everyone will also watch lanterns and guess lantern riddles, which is also a lively scene.

    Qingming Festival is not as festive as the traditional festival above, generally Qingming Festival will rain a few days, there is a poem written Qingming Festival "Qingming Festival rain a lot, pedestrians on the road want to break the soul". In these days of the Qingming Festival, there is usually a grave to give a little care to the deceased, so this festival is more dignified.

    Our side will put wormwood on the door on the day of the Qingming Festival to drive away evil spirits, of course, this is also a little superstitious, and boiled eggs, and then everyone touches the eggs together, harder than whose eggs, it seems that there are still places that will use wormwood to make Qingtuan, glutinous and delicious.

    Each of our traditional festivals has its own different meaning, and what we can do is to pass them on better.

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