24 Solar Terms——Tomb Sweeping Day

阎睿超

清明节（别称：踏青节，英文名：Tomb-Sweeping Day）是中国最重要的祭祀节日，交节时间在公历4月5日前后。清明节是农历二十四节气之一，在仲春与暮春之交，也就是冬至后的108天。中国汉族传统的清明节大约始于周代，距今已有二千五百多年的历史。《历书》：“春分后十五日，斗指丁，为清明，时万物皆洁齐而清明，盖时当气清景明，万物皆显，因此得名。”清明一到，气温升高，正是春耕春种的大好时节，故有“清明前后，种瓜点豆”之说。 　　Introduction to Tomb-Sweeping Day Since ancient times, Chinese people have the concept of paying respect to their ancestors and being careful to reach their final destination, so the tradition of Spring Festival gradually takes shape during qingming Festival. Every year on tomb-sweeping Day, many places will in different forms, held a variety of commemorative activities to remember the revolutionary ancestors, commemorate the battle heroes. Folk outing, grave worship and other customs. Qingming Festival, The Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are called the four traditional Festivals in China. Besides China, qingming Festival is also celebrated in some countries and regions in the world, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. On May 20, 2006, the Qingming Festival declared by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China was approved by The State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. The custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day Sweeping tombs Tomb-sweeping Day is a time to worship ancestors and traditionally to sweep tombs. Now the way of tomb sweeping can be carried out on the Internet, now the world's largest tomb sweeping network is Waineng, so that love and missing distance, the story of life forever spread. 　　Spring outing Spring outing, also known as Spring outing, Spring Outing and Tanchun, is a traditional Chinese festival custom. Spring outing is a Chinese folk outing and walking in spring, people go hiking in the countryside, and play various games and cuju, swing, kite flying and other activities. 　　Planting willow Planting willow is a folk custom, but also to commemorate the "jiaminjiaji" agricultural ancestor Shennong. In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to forecast the weather. Wicker dry, sunny day ". Huang Chao uprising, to "Qingming period, Dai Liu for the number". After the failure of the uprising, the custom of wearing willow was gradually eliminated, and only inserting willow remained popular. Willow has a strong vitality, as the saying goes: "there is a heart to grow flowers do not hair, inadvertently inserted willow shade. Where to stick it, "A wicker sticks in the dirt, and wherever it goes, live where, every year inserted willow, everywhere Yin. 　　Tomb-sweeping Day is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, carrying the ancient beliefs and good feelings of the Chinese nation for a long time. 文字：八（3）班阎睿超 图片：八（3）班阎睿超