Qingming Festival

As an important part of Chinese traditional festival culture, Qingming Festival has profound historical and cultural accumulation and rich festival customs connotation. It was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006. In 2008, it was officially established as a legal holiday.

The origin of Qingming Festival

It is said that it started from the “tomb offering” ceremony of the ancient emperors and generals, and later the folk also followed suit. On this day, the sacrificer expressed his filial piety and missing for his ancestors, and it has become a fixed festival custom of the Chinese nation. It also gets its name from the Qingming Festival, one of the 24 solar terms in the Chinese lunar calendar, which falls after the Spring Equinox. At this time the winter has gone, spring is abundant, the weather is clear, the fields are bright and clean, it is a good time for spring cultivation and spring planting, inherent proverb: “Qingming grain rain two connected, soaking seed tilling Mo delay.”

Qingming Festival Customs

The situation is Qingming fine weather, may wish to swim Yan Mo forget to return. Outing is another important festival of Qingming. Qingming season, willows Qingqing, natural life a piece, people by offering tomb outing. In addition, there are also tree-planting, willow planting, swing, kite flying and other sports activities during the Qingming Festival.

Qingming Festival cultural inheritance

Long heritage, heritage Qingming. Qingming is an important cultural heritage left by our ancestors. It carries the excellent historical tradition of the Chinese nation and carries on the cultural blood of the Chinese nation. Today, while commemorating the achievements of our ancestors, we should also remember the wind and rain of history and remember the heroes and martyrs. The whole people should vigorously carry forward the culture of filial piety, be careful in pursuing the past, and be grateful to our ancestors.