Niu Gensheng sleepwalked to Shenzhou, and during the Qingming Dynasty, it rained a lot, and the pedestrians on the road lost their desires and souls?

China's traditional Qingming Festival began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming is a very important solar term at the beginning, Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, it is a good season for spring ploughing and spring planting, so there is "before and after Qingming, planting melons and beans". "Afforestation is better than Qingming" agricultural proverb. Later, because the day of Qingming and cold food is close, and cold food is the day of the folk ban on fire and tomb sweeping, gradually, cold food and Qingming will become one, and cold food has become another name for Qingming, but also has become a custom of Qingming season, Qingming day does not move fireworks, only eat cold food.

Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, is generally around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar, and on the 15th day after the spring equinox. In 1935, the government of the Republic of China made April 5 the national holiday Qingming Festival, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival. On December 7, 2007, the 198th executive meeting of the State Council passed the decision to revise the "Measures for Holidays on National Festivals and Memorial Days", which stipulates that "Qingming Festival, one day off (on the day of Qingming in the lunar calendar)[1], in 2008, Qingming Festival officially became a statutory holiday, one day off. In 2009, it was changed to three days. [2] The 2014 Ching Ming Festival holiday is from April 5 to April 7.

Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival. [4] The Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring sacrifice day, and the custom of sweeping tombs and worshiping ancestors is still prevalent in the Lingnan area. Through historical development and evolution, the Qingming Festival absorbs and integrates the customs of the Cold Food Festival and the Shangsi Festival, and has extremely rich cultural connotations. There are differences in the content of customs due to different regions across the country, although the festival activities are not the same, but the tomb sweeping and ancestor worship, and the outing are the basic ritual themes.

The Qingming Festival, along with the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China. On May 20, 2006, China* declared the Qingming Festival to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list approved by the State Council. The solar terms provide the preconditions for the production of festivals. Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China, which occurs on the 108th day after the winter solstice every year, that is, around April 5 of the solar calendar. The 24 solar terms are the climatic laws formulated by the ancients in ancient times according to the changes in the position of the earth on the ecliptic, which objectively reflect the changes in temperature, phenology, rainfall and other aspects of the four seasons of the year, and have indispensable guiding significance for people to arrange agricultural production activities in time. After the Qingming Festival, the temperature warms up, the rain increases, and the earth presents the image of spring and scenery. At this time, everything "spits out the old and absorbs the new", whether it is the vegetation in nature or the human body coexisting with nature, at this time, it is replaced with the pollution of winter, ushering in the breath of spring, and realizing the transformation from yin to yang. Therefore, Qingming is an important solar term for ancient agricultural production. As a festival, Qingming is different from the pure solar terms, which are the signs of phenological changes and seasonal order in our country, while the festival contains certain customs and certain commemorative significance. [10] [11] [12]

The origin of tomb sweeping and ancestor worship rituals on the Qingming Festival is related to the humanistic and natural cultural contents such as beliefs, sacrifices, calendars, and the divided solar terms. The Qingming solar term provides important conditions for the formation of Qingming festival customs in terms of time and meteorological phenological characteristics, and it is regarded as one of the sources of the Qingming Festival. In the Qingming season, the earth is spring, yin and yang are transformed, the old is spit out and the new is accepted, the vitality is flourishing, and everything is clean, which is a good time for the spring festival. At the same time, going out in the countryside is also the theme of the solar terms of the ancients. In ancient times, agriculture was the main business of traditional society, in order to harvest agricultural affairs, in addition to praying for good weather in nature, but also to ask the ancestors to bless, and the Chinese people have been respecting their ancestors since ancient times, and the concept of etiquette and chasing away cautiously. Therefore, the tradition of spring sacrifice gradually formed during the Qingming season. Through historical development and evolution, the Qingming Festival absorbs and integrates the customs of the Cold Food Festival and the Shangsi Festival, and has extremely rich cultural connotations.

Niu Gensheng found that the Qingming Festival is a unique festival of the Chinese nation, and the fine cultural traditions of China are worth passing on! The Qingming Festival is a festival for the people to cherish the memory of their ancestors! The affection of green leaves for their roots! Respect for ancestors is a good thing!