What is Qing Ming Festival? Qingming Festival is one of the Chinese traditional holiday. It is usually between April 3rd to 5th. This Festival also called Tomb Sweeping Day. Why? Because the most import traditional on this Qingming Festival is Tomb sweeping, sacrifice and memory of ancestors.
Origin of Qingming Festival
The origin of Qingming Festival is said to be that in the spring and Autumn period. The person named Chong Er, he forgot to repay kindness after being saved by Jie Zitui. When he was regret, he found that Jie Zitui had died. So there was Qingming Festival and cold food festival. Later, the folk mixed the two into Qingming Festival. The traditional rites and customs of Qingming Festival are mainly tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing. It contains the connotation of nature and humanity.
Qingming Festival activities
The Qingming Festival has been observed by the Chinese for over 2500 years. It became a public holiday in mainland China in 2008. It is associated with the consumption of qingtuan, green dumplings made of glutinous rice and Chinese mugwort or barley grass.
The most visible Qingming Festival activity revolves around tomb sweeping. The ritual cleaning of gravesites to honor a family’s ancestors. People care for their relatives in the afterlife by visiting at the cemetery. They will refreshing their tombstones and making offerings of food, incense and joss paper. Once tomb sweeping is complete, families picnic at the cemetery and commonly spend the afternoon. All together enjoy outdoor activities in the early blooming days of spring.
As part of the Qingming Festival celebration, many families will have picnics, fly kites, walk and tug of war in the cemetery. This is also a good time to plant flowers and trees. Many families will also plant flowers and trees together. These activities are to share the memory of the people before them with relatives from generation to generation.
In China, Qingming Festival is a legal national day.In addition to China, there are also some countries and regions in the world that have also celebrated Qingming Festival, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and so on.
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