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Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar, which is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 16 days after the winter solstice. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty, with a history of more than 2,5 years. "Almanac": "On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, fighting refers to Ding, for the sake of Qingming, when everything is clean and clear, when it is covered, everything is clear and clear, so it is named." As soon as Qingming comes, the temperature rises, which is a good time for spring ploughing and planting, so there is a saying that "before and after Qingming, we should plant melons and beans". Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to worship ancestors, and the traditional activity is grave-sweeping.

basic introduction

Tomb-sweeping Day, English standard translation: Tom b-sweeping day or Pure Brightness. It is one of the 24 solar terms in China, which falls on April 5th in the solar calendar every year. (This holiday has been listed as a national holiday for 3 days). In 29, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the arrangement of some holidays in 21. According to the notice, according to the State Council's Decision on Amending the Measures for Holidays on National Festival and Memorial Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day will have a three-day holiday. Because the twenty-four solar terms objectively reflect the changes of temperature, rainfall and phenology all year round, the Qingming written by the ancient labor Du Mu

was used by people to arrange farming activities. "Huainanzi Astronomical Training" says: "On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, when the bucket refers to B, the Qingming wind will come." According to "Questions at the Age of 1", "Everything grows clean and bright at this time. So it is called Qingming. " As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and spring planting. Therefore, there are agricultural proverbs such as "plant melons and beans before and after Qingming Festival" and "plant trees, it is better than Qingming Festival". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production. However, Qingming, as a festival, is different from pure solar terms. Solar terms are the symbol of phenological changes and seasonal order in China, while festivals contain certain customs and activities and some commemorative significance. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival for offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most of the Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to their relatives' graves, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few green branches and insert them in the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat food and drink and go home. The poem Qingming written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "It rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask the local people where to buy wine and worry? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Write the special atmosphere of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4th and 6th every year, which is the season when the spring is bright and the vegetation is green, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing (called outing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities. In ancient times, there was another saying, that is, "March Festival". In the concept of the ancients, 18 is a large number representing perfection, auspiciousness, antiquity and profundity. Putting Qingming on the 18th day after the winter solstice has a profound meaning. Qingming got its name not only because everything grows cleanly at this time, but also because the sun in this period is also a fresh sun, and the yang flowing between heaven and earth in this period is also a fresh yang.

Editing the historical development of this section

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

It is said that after Dayu's flood control, people celebrated that the flood had been eliminated and the world was at peace with Qingming. At this time, bloom is warm in spring, everything is revived, and the sky is clear and bright, which is a good time for a spring outing. Going for an outing began as early as the Tang Dynasty, and it has become a habit through the ages. In addition to enjoying the beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains and spring scenery, we also carry out various recreational activities to increase the interest of life. Grave-sweeping is popular in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In fact, grave-sweeping is the content of the Cold Food Festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day the day before. It is said that cold food originated from Jin Wengong's mourning for Jietui. In the twentieth year of the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he ordered the world to "eat cold food to the grave". Because the cold food was connected with Qingming, it was gradually spread to tomb sweeping in Qingming. During the Qingming period, tomb sweeping was more popular. In ancient times, children often flew kites when sweeping graves. Some kites are equipped with bamboo flutes, which can make a sound when the wind blows, just like the sound of a kite. It is said that this is how the kite got its name. Tomb-Sweeping Day was very common in the Northern Song Dynasty, and now Zhang Zeduan's < < Riverside Scene on Qingming Festival > > It depicts the characters on both sides of the Bianhe River in Bianliang (Kaifeng), Tokyo during the Qingming period of Huizong in the Northern Song Dynasty. Since 28, China has recognized Tomb-Sweeping Day as a legal holiday, with one day off. In 29, it was changed to three days. Has continued to this day. Qingming will go to the grave to show respect and nostalgia for the deceased. [1] In Tomb-Sweeping Day, some people cry in front of the graves of their ancestors, while others hide their tears in front of the graves of their pets. Not only people have cemeteries, but pets also have cemeteries. People's grave-sweeping for pets is similar to ancestor worship. There are photos, chrysanthemums, toys they loved before their death, and cement and marble tablets in front of their graves, just like people. In addition to physical cemeteries, online pet cemeteries and commemorative blogs have become popular. Like the online memorial hall for relatives, the pet memorial hall can offer wine and flowers, and it is easy to apply. Most of them just need to enter the names of pets and owners.

editing the origin of this festival

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important traditional folk festival in China, and it is one of the eight important festivals: Shangyuan, Qingming, long summer, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice and New Year's Eve. Generally speaking, it falls on April 5th of the Gregorian calendar in the introduction map of traditional festivals in China. However, its festival period is very long, and there are two kinds of sayings: eight days before the 1th and ten days after the 1th, which belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day in the past 2 days. It is said that the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the ceremony of "tomb sacrifice" by the ancient emperors and generals, and later the people followed suit, and it became a fixed custom of the Chinese nation to worship ancestors and sweep graves on this day. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day were two different festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, the day to worship the grave was designated as the Cold Food Festival. The name "Tomb-Sweeping Day" also comes from the Tomb-Sweeping Day atmosphere in the 24 solar terms of Chinese lunar calendar. On the 15th day after the winter solstice, it was Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi. Tomb-Sweeping Day was angry for 15 days. As the Qingming festival, the time is after the vernal equinox. At this time, winter has gone, spring is full, the weather is clear, the fields are bright and clean, and nature is full of vitality everywhere. It is an appropriate word to call this period "Qingming". [2] One hundred and five days after the winter solstice is called cold food. In the past, fire was forbidden and cold food was served, so it was also called "Cold Festival" and "No Smoking Festival". According to folklore, cold food is to commemorate the fact that meson tui was burned in Mianshan in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Jin Wengong ordered the fire to be banned. Jiezitui is from Shanxi, so the custom of cold food is first popular in Shanxi. In the old days, cold food cut off the fire, and the next day there was a ceremony to drill wood to get a new fire in the palace, and the people also begged each other for a new fire with wicker.

Begging for cleverness /view/136426.htm

In the old customs, on the night of July 7th (or July 6th) of the lunar calendar, young girls wearing new clothes begged for cleverness from Vega in the courtyard, which was called "begging for cleverness". Most of the ways of begging for cleverness are that girls try their best to make small items and put some melons and fruits on them. The ways of begging for cleverness in different regions are different and have their own interests. In modern times, threading needles, steaming steamed buns, branding clever fruits, giving birth to clever buds, and decorations made of dough sculpture, paper-cutting and colored embroidery are also extensions of the custom of begging for cleverness.

Chinese Valentine's Day: The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as Qixi, also known as Daughter's Day and Girl's Day. The most common custom in Chinese Valentine's Day is all kinds of begging activities carried out by girls on the night of the seventh day of July.

Tanabata in the Han Dynasty

In the Han Dynasty, women put a small spider (called fruit in ancient times) in a box, which was characterized by its skillful weaving. In the Tang Dynasty, they put the spider on the melon. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, they regarded the needle shadow in the water as clumsy, slender as clever, and scattered as clumsy.

Zodiac/view/116 It is composed of eleven kinds of animals originated from nature, namely rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs and legendary dragons. It is used to record the years, and the order is mouse, ugly cow, yinhu, maotu, dragon, snake, afternoon horse, sheep, monkey, unitary chicken and pheasant. It is widely used in many countries and nationalities. Many poets have written poems depicting the zodiac.

The origin of the zodiac

The 12-year calendar started in China at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the Biography of Northern History Yuwen Hu, a letter written by Yuwen Hu's mother was recorded, which said: "Your brother was born in Wuchuan Town, the first one was a mouse, the second one was a rabbit, and you were a snake." It shows that there were already 12 zodiac signs used by the people at that time. However, what is the origin of the 12 zodiac signs? According to our ancient books, in the Central Plains of ancient China, the "chronology of branches and branches" was originally used, that is, 1 heavenly stems (A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren, Gui) and 12 earthly branches (Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen). In the northwest of China, the minority nomadic people use animals to record the years. It is recorded in the Book of the Tang Dynasty: "The year of the Year of the Tiger is marked by twelve things, if the year is in Yin". In addition, it is also recorded in the Song History of Tubo Biography that when the Tubo leaders narrate, they take things as the chronology. As the saying goes, "Twelve old things belong to Japan, the Year of the Rabbit, and the Year of the Horse". Later, in the communication between the Central Plains and ethnic minorities, the two chronologies came into contact with each other to form the present 12 zodiac signs. As Zhao Yi pointed out in the Qing Dynasty's Yu Cong Kao, "It doesn't matter whether there is an ugly child in the early days of Gaibei custom, but when it is divided into years, it spreads in China, so it doesn't waste ears." This explanation about the origin of the 12 zodiac signs,

Twelve pictures of the 12 zodiac signs have been recognized by many people. In addition, there are also sayings about the origin of the 12 Zodiacs: Hong Xun's "Yang Gu Man Lu" says that those who rank odd in the 12 earthly branches are also matched with odd fingers or hooves of animals. For example, if the son ranks first, the mouse that matches it is 5 fingers, and those who rank even in the earthly branches are named after even numbers. For example, if the cow matches ugliness, it is 4 claws. Ye Shijie explained the origin of the 12 zodiac signs in Grass and Trees as follows: the surgeon matched the 12 Xiao with the 12 Chen, and each Xiao had its own shortcomings, such as a mouse without teeth, a cow without teeth, a tiger without spleen, a rabbit without lips, a dragon without ears, a snake without feet, a horse without guts, a sheep without pupils, a monkey without hips, a chicken without kidneys, a dog without stomach, a pig without tendons and a human being. There are all kinds of other statements. For example, the Yellow Emperor wanted to select 12 kinds of animals to be on duty in the sky on time ... Through competition, he selected 12 kinds of animals such as rats, cows and tigers. The zodiac comes from the totem worship of some clans in primitive society, which is divided according to the strength of each tribe at a certain meeting; The zodiac may have been introduced from Tianzhu; Or 28 stars are distributed around the week, which is worth 12 hours. Each star is named after an animal. Choose a common animal on duty at every hour as a proxy for a certain year, and so on. Although people can't determine the exact origin of the 12 Zodiac, it has been used to this day because of its popularity, convenience and interest, and it has become a valuable heritage with practical value left by the ancients.

birthdates /view/158.htm

birthdates, or eight characters, is actually another way of saying the four pillars in Zhouyi. Four pillars refer to the time when a person was born, that is, year, month, day and hour. When people use the word "heavenly stems" and "earthly branches" to represent the year, month, day and time respectively, such as the year of Jiazi, the month of Bingshen, the ugly day and the time of Renyin, etc., it contains the basic state of celestial movement when a person is born. Each column has two characters and four columns have eight characters, so fortune telling is also called "measuring eight characters". According to the relationship between the attributes of yin and yang and the five elements of heaven and earth, it is inferred that people's body is blamed and blessed.