How did the ancients sacrifice during the Qingming Festival

Updated on culture 2024-06-13
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc., the festival period is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. 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 the tomb to worship, remembering the ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family affection, awakening the common memory of the family, but also to promote 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 the right time, the right place and the right people, and fully reflects the harmonious unity of the ancestors of the Chinese nation in pursuing the harmony and unity of "heaven, earth and man", and paying attention to the idea of conforming to the time and place and following the laws of nature. 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.

    Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival of sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, go out to play, and enjoy the fun of spring. Douzhi B (or the sun yellow longitude reaches 15 °) is the Qingming solar term, and the festival time is around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar. At this time, the vitality is vigorous, the yin qi is declining, all things "spit out the old and accept the new", and the earth presents the image of spring and scenery, which is a good season for the suburbs to go on a youth tour and perform tomb sacrifices.

    The Qingming Ancestor Festival is very long, there are two sayings before and 8 days before and 10 days before and 10 days after, which are all during the Qingming Ancestor Festival in the past 20 days.

    Qingming Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China. In addition to China, there are also some countries and regions in the world that also celebrate the Qingming Festival, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, etc.

    On May 20, 2006, the Qingming Festival declared by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China was approved by the People's Republic of China to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    "Qingming Festival" is a traditional sacrificial festival in China, and it is also one of the 24 solar terms. The most solemn custom in this festival is "sacrifice", which is also a specific manifestation of China's filial piety culture. So what are the particularities and taboos?

    Qingming tomb sweeping taboo rural culture.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Worship and worship are all possible.

    Worship and memorial can be used in the Qingming Festival, the two words only refer to different objects, memorial is a kind of mourning ceremony for the deceased, the object of worship can be deceased relatives, friends, colleagues, etc.

    Worship refers to the worship of a number of gods at a specific time. The objects of worship can be Pangu, Nuwa, Yuan Shi Tianzun, Guanyin Bodhisattva, etc.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Qingming Festival worship and memorial are the only way to write, the memorial is to mourn the deceased, this object can be deceased relatives and friends, etc. Worship, on the other hand, refers to the worship of gods or ancestors as a sign of respect. The main purpose of worshipping the gods is to pray for good fortune and good weather.

    In general, the food offered at the festival is something unique to the local area, or a delicacy that the worshipper has the ability to bring out his hand.

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