Qingming Festival is a happy day or a sad day

Although it is a national holiday, many people go out to play, but this day is indeed a day to mourn their ancestors. I really hate people who get rid of their pastimes on this day. lz should have a point of view with me In this world, everyone has it, traveling on Qingming Festival or something, not afraid of ......

Of course it's a sad day!

To be honest, most people are very happy during the Qingming Festival, because the Qingming Festival is a holiday. A small number of people who have passed away recently will be sadder. Take me as an example, I don't feel it at all, because I have to go to work today, and I don't have a holiday!

Miss the old people, cherish - cherish health, cherish relatives, cherish every day in front of you.

Qingming Festival is a good day.

The Qingming Festival is actually a time to worship ancestors and travel at the same time, so the Qingming Festival is a good day to go out and sweep the tombs.

As one of the traditional festivals, the most representative custom of the Qingming Festival is to sweep the tomb. Tomb sweeping refers to going to the cemetery to worship the ancestors to express the filial piety of the sacrificers and the feelings of missing the ancestors, which belongs to a cultural tradition of respecting the ancestors and chasing the distance carefully.

Chinese are influenced by traditional cultural psychology, have a strong family concept, especially attach importance to the family, ancestors, ancestor worship, return to the ancestors of the consciousness is particularly strong, the tomb of the ancestors is a special way to remember the ancestors, so in all parts of the country, in fact, there is a custom of sweeping the tomb to worship the ancestors on the Qingming Festival.

At the time of Qingming, the spring is bright and the grass and trees spit green, and it is also a good time for people to travel in spring, so the Qingming Festival is also called the Qingqing Festival, in addition to paying attention to the ban on fire, sweeping the tomb, the customs of the Qingming Festival also have a series of customs and sports activities such as walking, swinging, juju, playing polo, and planting willows.

Customs around the Qingming Festival

1. Guangdong. In Guangdong, tomb sweeping during the Qingming Dynasty is called sweeping the mountain, worshipping the mountain, and worshipping the Qing. During the Qingming Festival, the Guangdong demolition area has presented the image of spring and Jingming, and sweeping the tomb to worship the ancestors and going on an outing are the main ritual themes of the Cantonese people's festival; Because of the convenience, the family also went out to play in the mountains and countryside.

2. Hong Kong and Macao. The Qingming customs in Hong Kong and Macao are largely the same as those in Guangdong. During the Ching Ming Festival, Hong Kong people usually visit the graves of their ancestors, burn incense candles, remove weeds, and offer fruits, wine, flowers, roast pigs or white-cut chicken.

Although most cemeteries in Hong Kong are connected by public transport, traffic is still congested on Ching Ming Festival. In order to avoid crowding, people are often accustomed to staggered peak worship, and do not necessarily abide by the tradition of sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors on Qingming Day.

3. Zhejiang. In Zhejiang, there are differences in local customs, some places worship the grave on Qingming Day, and some places must go to the grave on Qingming Day. Generally, the people of their own clan worship the prince a few days in advance, first worship the prince, and then sacrifice the ancestors of their own households.

When sacrificing the Qingming Festival, first "add soil" or "add soil" to the ancestral tomb, that is, use a dustpan to take soil and add it to the top of the ancestral tomb. The offerings are placed, the candles are lit first, then the incense is lit, and the incense is sent according to the number of people, and the senior priest prays, and then everyone kneels and worships together. Finally, the sacrifices were packed up and left, and all the graves had to be visited, and all sacrifices were made in the same way.