X Membrane - Qingming Festival

  Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in my country. Since the twenty-four solar terms more objectively reflect changes in temperature, rainfall, phenology and other aspects throughout the year, working people in ancient times used them to arrange agricultural activities. "Huainanzi? Tianwen Xun" says: "Fifteen days after the spring equinox, when Dou Zhiyi is on the second day, the Qingming wind will arrive." According to "Hundred Questions of the Years": "Everything growing at this time is clean and bright. Therefore, it is called Qingming Festival." When Qingming Festival comes, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases. It is a good time for spring plowing and spring planting. Therefore, there are farmers' proverbs like "Before and after Qingming, order melons and plant beans" and "Afforestation is better than Qingming." UF Membrane It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production.

     However, Qingming, as a festival, is different from a pure solar term. Solar terms are symbols of phenological changes and seasonal sequences in my country, while festivals contain certain customary activities and commemorative significance.

     Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country and the most important sacrificial festival. It is a day for worshiping ancestors and sweeping tombs. Tomb sweeping, commonly known as visiting graves, is an activity to pay homage to the deceased. Most of the Han people and some ethnic minorities visit tombs during the Qingming Festival.

     According to the old custom, when sweeping the tomb, people should bring wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of the tomb of their loved ones, burn the paper money, cover the tomb with new soil, and break a few green branches to insert on the tomb. , then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the food and wine and go home.RO membrane Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Qingming": "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road are dying. May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village." It describes the special atmosphere of the Qingming Festival.

     Qingming Festival, also called the Outing Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4th and 6th every year. It is the time when the spring scenery is bright and the grass is green, and it is also a good time for people to go out in the spring (called outing in ancient times) time, so the ancients had the custom of going outing during the Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.

     To this day, the custom of worshiping ancestors and mourning deceased relatives during the Qingming Festival is still very popular.