When did the Qingming Festival originate? Who started

Updated on culture 2024-06-09
4 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    In the Spring and Autumn Period, it is to commemorate Jie Zitui, and the Qingming Festival is also called the Cold Food Festival. It is Jin Wengong to commemorate Jie Zi push, in the beginning of the Qingming Festival is not allowed to burn the fire to cook, so it is also called the cold food festival.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Ching ming festival. It is also known as the Qingqing Festival, the Xingqing Festival, the March Festival, the Ancestor Festival, etc., and 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.

    Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing are the two hidden ritual themes of the Qingming Festival, and these two traditional ritual themes have been inherited in China since ancient times and have not been left behind to this day.

    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 after 8 days before the 10th talk and 10 days before and 10 days after, which are all during the Qingming Ancestor Festival in the past 20 days.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    China's traditional Qingming Festival began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming is a very important solar term at the beginning, Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, it is a good season for spring plowing and spring planting, so there is "before and after Qingming, planting melons and beans". "Afforestation, no better than Qingming" agricultural proverb.

    After Jian Hulai, because the day of Qingming and cold food is close, and cold food is the rest of the folk fire ban tomb sweeping days, gradually, cold food and Qingming will become one, and cold food has become another name for Qingming, but also has become a custom of Qingming season, Qingming day does not move fireworks, only eat cold food.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    The Qingming Festival was formed during the Tang Dynasty, when Emperor Li Longji promulgated the system of the Qingming Festival. Li Longji stipulated that on the day of the Qingming Festival, the people could go to the suburbs to play and carry out activities such as tomb sweeping and worship to express their respect and nostalgia for their ancestors. In addition, he also asked for reforestation activities to be carried out around the Qingming Festival every year to protect the environment and ecology.

    As for the literature of the Qingming Festival, the earliest record can be traced back to "Zhou Li, Chun Guan, Shi" in "Zongmiao is to worship the gods of heaven and earth and yin and yang, and worship spirit rats, grains, silkworms, and guards." It mentions the spring sacrifice. In addition, the Book of Changes also mentions the solar terms and festivals established by the Duke of Zhou during the Spring and Autumn Period, including the Qingming Festival.

    There are also some historical documents that also record the Qingming Festival.

    Zhou Li": The canonical system of the Zhou Dynasty, which has content about spring sacrifices and festival returns.

    Historical Records: A historical book written by Sima Qian, the Han Dynasty, which contains records about the origin and history of the Qingming Festival.

    Book of Tang: An official history book of the Tang Dynasty, which records the history of the promulgation of the Qingming Festival system by Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Ming Dynasty.

    Guangya": A dictionary of the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, which has explanations and records of the Qingming Festival.

    Qingming Riverside Map": The painting scroll made by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty reflects the celebrations and customs of the Qingming Festival at that time.

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