The sun is shining brightly, plants are sprouting, and a hundred flowers are in full bloom. In the spring breeze, the traditional festival and solar term - Qingming arrives. Pedestrians either offer sacrifices to their ancestors, go on spring outings and plant willows, or engage in farming.
Qingming Festival
Qingming tomb sweeping, that is, "tomb offering", that is, "thinking of the time of respect" to the ancestors, ancestor sweeping is the way of remembering the ancestors, its custom has a long history.
Qingming Festival integrates natural solar terms and human customs as a whole, is the combination of time, geography and people, fully embodies the Chinese nation's ancestors to pursue the harmony of "heaven, earth and man", pay attention to the idea of conforming to the conditions of heaven, time and earth, and follow the laws of nature.
According to the old custom, when the tomb is swept, people should carry wine, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, the food is offered in front of the tomb of their loved ones, and then the paper money is incinerated, the new soil for the grave, and then fold a few green willow branches inserted on the grave, and then kowtow.