The tomb-sweeping day is what mean

Qingming festival is characterization of phenology solar terms, it's sunny, lush.Tomb-sweeping day, folk have outing custom, cold food, such as the grave.

As the saying goes: "clear off the snow, grain rain frost."Up to the tomb-sweeping day, south China climate is warm, the awaken of spring is thick.You have cold air invasion in the before and after the tomb-sweeping day, but still, even for 3 consecutive days or more lower than the average daily temperature 12 ℃, cause middle-season rice LanYang and early rice seedlings death, so rice seeding, ZaiCha warm tail cold head to avoid.In the northwest plateau, livestock through the winter and the influence of the lack of forage, resistance is weak, need to keep a strong cooling after spring weather the harm of old and young.

"As", is a famous tang dynasty poet tu mu of jiangnan spring rain.But in terms of some areas, and this is not the case.Especially in the west of south China, often in the spring drought period, early April rain only in 10 to 20 mm, less than half of the jiangnan area.Although spring rains in south east more, but early April 20 to 40 mm rainfall in general, however, also don't apply the agricultural production of natural precipitation need water supplement must also rely on years ago.In addition, may and June is hail the most in a year, should strengthen the defense of hailstorm.

Is the tomb-sweeping day,The 24 solar termsIn the fifth solar term, but also a power through birth month starting;Time points before and after the new moon march each year in the lunar calendar (the Gregorian calendar in April 4-6), the sun arrived at longitude 15 °.Departure pulled seventy-two hou the: "march quarter...Content to this time, all in clean neat and clear."

At the age of the best asked, "say:" growth at this time, all things are clean and bright and clean, reason of the tomb-sweeping day."

The almanac: "15 days after the spring equinox, butyl, fighting for the tomb-sweeping day, when everything is clean neat and clear, when the cover when gas great, everything appears, hence the name."The qingming festivalAnd in addition, three dishes and 9 said four big Chinese traditional festival of ancestor worship festival.

, because of the tomb-sweeping day is according to throttle the qingming festival is one of the few with western roughly consistent with traditional Chinese festivals.Qingming festival in Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong and other places the only according to throttle the holiday, in Macao and the winter solstice.

Qingming festival custom

The custom of the qingming festival is rich interesting, every evaporate qingming fruit give each other, not only pay attention to the fire, the grave, and outing, swing, cuju, play polo, inserted liu and so on a series of customs sports activities.According to legend this is because the tomb-sweeping day to cold food ban fire, in order to prevent cold food buffet injury body, so everyone to take part in some sports activities to exercise.Therefore, this festival in both New York martyrs, life and death to leave the sad and bitter tears, have played by outing laughter again, is a rich characteristic holiday.

For an outing

For an outing, also called tanchun, XunChun, outing.The meaning is the feet on the grass, in the suburbs to play, watch spring scenery.The tomb-sweeping day in April, nor, nature become a vibrant picture everywhere, it is time for an outing.Our country folk to keep the habit of qingming outing for a long time.Before and after the tomb-sweeping day is a good time to outing, so become an important content of the qingming festival customs.

The tomb-sweeping day for an outing is very popular in shandong province.LinQu, tengzhou children early in the morning to the village for an outing, fly a kite.Some made with wicker whistle, whistle is very beautiful.In some places, children face pant or blow, it is said that can drain inside fire.In most areas are in the habit of playing swing, there are three kinds of weifang area of swing: one kind is straight swing (suitable for the elderly), the second is turn swing, and the third is turn swing.Cieme attaches great importance to the tomb-sweeping day, this day people get up and put on holiday clothing, especially women, all playing dress-up to look around house, look at the new wife sit well (new wife like wedding day sitting on the kang), then go to play swing.Swing swing high, means have a good life, so everyone you contend for me to rob, and swing in a cheerful voice.On this day, women had very good, therefore, the local"A womanThe clarity of the man's years ".

cuju

Cuju (cu j ū), bow is a ball, the ball from leather, wool plugged in.Cuju, is to use enough to play football.This is the ancient tomb sweeping day popular a kind of game.It was said that the yellow emperor invented, original purpose is to train warriors.So far we call soccer.

grave

Grave, originally is tomb-sweeping day three days before (or) cold food custom, since the tang dynasty gradually merge Yu Qingming.Is the custom of the qingming festival.Of the ancestors "worship".Tomorrow the emperor jing scenery ", "the tomb-sweeping day in March, men's and women's grave, bear mention -, hang after its horse to disappear ingot, charmed beaming with tao.Thanks, obligation, and cry, for a weeding add dirt, burn to disappear ingot, tomb with paper money.Hope no paper money, in the graves.Cry, also no return, aromatic tree, choose the garden, sit do drunk."In fact, the grave had before the qin dynasty, but not necessarily in the tomb-sweeping day, tomb-sweeping day is after the qin dynasty.To the tang dynasty just began to prevail."QingTong ceremony" cloud: "age, cold food and frost section, BaiSao table Ying, within the white clothing notions of the tomb, wine delicious and simple shear apparatus of the vegetation, weeks Zhi tree, grass cut off jing, therefore calls grave."And from today."Liu hang down buildings heavy rain, the children thousands of miles outgrave.Castle peak smoke everywhere, incense worship their ancestors."(left the river poem), reflect the current our country folk qingming festival custom.In the contemporary Chinese society tombs have mostly to the little square stone cemetery.There is "clear" the political: "at first glance WenFu rain part such as hemp, pasture grass green tracks.Or to the cemetery for stone, festive laid tomb headdress flower."(" in volume load JingTang, jiang NaJing "poem") clear martyrs ceremony should be held personally went to the cemetery, but as a result of each different economic conditions and other conditions, so the martyrs way also is different.

Old, taian grave ceremony is grand.Male host to pick four dishes and dumplings to ancestral graves, offerings to the first, and then burn incense burning fake, sprinkle wine festivals.Zhaoyuan, cieme, LinQu, linqing, etc to the graveThe graveAdd a new soil.It is said that this is for ancestors built house, big leaks in the summer rain, in essence is a miss to ancestors.Most areas are on tomb-sweeping day grave, a few areas (e.g., zhucheng) on cold food day grave, while longkou, rural part, four days before the qingming festival grave.Generally on tomb-sweeping day grave.Tomb-sweeping day around shandong insert willow, pine, is said to be the memory of jie zitui.Taian households wicker, and give the dog wear the willow.Folk: "no, yellow dog died."Cieme, used to wear a pine, moral will flourish like a pine tree.Linyi, cities are in the place such as the walls with wicker, pine whips gently, side dozen the side said: "a tomb sweeping day, a year willows singles were the governor, the door is not allowed during the day, night not sting people."

"Burden" is the main form of worshiping ancestors.The so-called "baggage", also as a "package" is refers to the filial piety is sent from YangShi parcel "hell".Are sold in the past, south ZhiDian so-called "BaoFuPi", which is white paper paste a large pocket.Has two forms: one kind is to use wood, the surrounding printed on Sanskrit transliteration of wang sheng zhou, a middle seal Indus memorial tablet, used to write names with taking money speak (cs17), such as: "the late zhang fu jun yunshan eldest brother" taboo words, is both a parcel a memorial tablet.Is another element BaoFuPi, don't print any pattern, only a blue sign, write down the names with speak (cs17).Also in charge card.A lot of more phyletic about MingQian in the baggage.A, big burn, 9 K white paper, hit four lines on money, each five;MingChao, this is the room with his ticket after imitation, saying "heaven bank", "orcus bank", "bank of hell hell" and other words, and three capital pattern, the more massive par, back Buddhism "wang sheng zhou";Three, his heart with a cardboard and outsourcing silver foil, pressure on the same pattern as the passage of silver;Four, in red on Huang Biaozhi wang sheng zhou, into a circle of money, so it is also called "money";Five, the tinsel lay in the stove, KeZi, some even thread it into a string, bottom compose a confetti spike.Old, whether rich and poor have baggage.The Japanese in the ancestral temple or home amidst the GongAn, put in the middle of the baggage, dumplings, cakes, fruits and other gifts, before burning incense candlelight.The family according to the pecking salute to his birthright, then at the door outside incineration.Incineration, draw a big circle, pressgravesLeave a gap.Outside the circle burn five sheets of paper, known outside the "send".With some rich family drive a sedan, as soon as possible close to the tombs to the martyrs.To trim the tomb, tomb or symbolically to tian tian on earth, but also in the above paper, let other people see, know the grave there are future generations.

Online grave, after 2000, along with the development of the Internet, began to popular online grave.Which is on the Internet a virtual cemetery or personal memorial to the dead, then before the dead tomb can visit salute lighting incense, flowers, and grave.Grave is the ministry of civil affairs published online advocate green's grave.[1]

worship

Worship, some salute to kowtow ahead;Some drinking with feasts;Others put up the kite, match each other, even for entertainment.Women andThe childAre also approached some willow, steam will remove offerings with wicker to wear.Others circle the wicker basket, put on his head, "" qingming festival is not Dai Liu, - yellow dog".This is a grave and outing, and try to return.It is said that the work of the customs, is to commemorate the "leisure farm" of farming father of the emperor shen nung.In some places, people placed willow branches under the eaves, to forecast the weather, the old have "willow green, rain receive;The wicker dry, sunny days ".Huang chao uprising uprising rules, to "for the tomb-sweeping day, Dai Liu to date".After a failed uprising, the custom of Dai Liu gradually be eliminated, only liu fixture.Willow has strong vitality, as the saying goes: "many hair, accidentally a remarkable."Wicker soil lived, where, where to live, year after year, colorful everywhere.

Qingming festival work Dai Liu has a saying: the original Chinese to the tomb-sweeping day, half July and October back to three Halloween, beg suo is haunted by a ghost.People in order to prevent the intrusion of ghost persecuted, and willow Dai Liu.Willow has the function of to ward off bad luck in people's mind.Influenced by Buddhism, willow were thought to ghost, and call it "ghost some wood", the goddess of mercy to switch touch water to degrees of living beings.In the northern wei jia sixie qimin yaoshu said: "take willow branches on the door, a ghost does not enter the house."On the occasion of the willow germination time, the tomb-sweeping day is Halloween, people naturally have inserted liu Dai Liu to ward off bad luck.

On the swings

Swing, this is our country ancient qingming festival custom.Swing, ie, ripping up the leather cord and migration.Its history is very old, the first call and consent, in order to avoid taboo, after changed to swing.Ancient tree swing multi-purpose YaZhi for frame, bolt ribbons made again.Then gradually developed to use two rope and a pedal swing.Swing can not only improve health, but also can cultivate the spirit of brave, for people, especially children's favorite.

Flying a kite

Flying a kite, also is the tomb-sweeping day people favorite activities.On tomb-sweeping day, people not only Bai Tianfang, night also.Onto the kite or the thread on hang a string of little lanterns, like a shining star, known as "god's lanterns."In the past, some people put the kite on the sky, then cut strings, let the wind take them to the ends of the earth, it is said that such diseases can eliminate evil, bring themselves good luck.

Planting trees

The tomb-sweeping day is the day after the cold food, belongs to the air show, great, everything is spring-out of season.After mourning when looked up toward the future, after winter is spring.People in cold food, sacrifice grief;Well, go out for an outing, fly a kite, swing, inserted a few branches of willow, see it into the shadow in the future.And at the time of the cold food, occasionally accidentally burn up the mountain vegetation;Cold food in the past, the qingming festival is coming, it's time to fill a variety of some trees.The spirit of the ancestors, as the trees on the hill, is evergreen.Person's life, and as a new species of trees, grow in the spring breeze, upward.Therefore the tomb-sweeping day is Chinese traditional Arbor Day.Qingming festival numerous business opportunities.

toucheggs

Every tomb-sweeping day, there are several children to touch the eggs, are two eggs to touch the eggs, knead to each other, to see who could put the other eggs break.Because I can't eat hot food, so the game became the children's favorite.

Cold food

One hundred and five days after the winter solstice of cold food, the day before the fire, eating cold food, so it is also called "cold day", the "non-smoking section".Cold food was built in memory of the spring and autumn when folklore jie zitui was burnings in continous mountain, duke wen ban on fire.Jie zitui is shanxi people, so cold food customs in shanxi first.Old well off the fire, the palace has wood drilling in new fire ceremony, folk also wicker in Chesapeake bay to take new fire each other more.15 days after the vernal equinox as the tomb-sweeping day, is a good day for an outing.Qingming festival and sweep grave the day of ancestor worship, folk known as "Halloween", "ghost festival", October 1, and July 15, general "three ghost festival", have article Tours of the ceremony.Cold food festival, qingming is originally two, but the shandong folk are mostly the two festivals one.Generally called qingming festival, the minority areas is called cold, but he is on tomb-sweeping day holiday.Kenley place since tomb-sweeping day three days ago, said that the "big well", "two", "three two", the fourth day of the tomb-sweeping day, people in the grave four days, for an outing.JuanCheng qingming day before, for cold food, also called qingming festival for section "gate of hell".