Introduction to the origin of Qingming Festival. Do you know the cultural connotation of Qingming Festival?
Although everyone knows about Qingming Festival, not everyone knows its origin. Let’s take a look at the origin of Qingming Festival. The second month of the lunar calendar has 29 days and is also a month full of spring. To know the predicted lunar calendar events, please check out the special topic of February 2021 on Shuimoxiansheng.com!The Origin of Qingming FestivalQingming Festival is the most solemn and grand festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation. It is a cultural traditional festival for respecting ancestors, remembering the dead and promoting filial piety. Qingming Festival has a long history. It originated from the spring sacrificial activities in ancient times. The spring and autumn sacrifices have existed since ancient times. Ancestor worship and sacrificial culture are important factors in the formation of Qingming Festival. Qingming has the connotations of both a solar term and a festival. The time and meteorological and phenological characteristics of the Qingming solar term provide important conditions for the formation of Qingming festival customs.The Qingming solar term is one of the 24 specific solar terms in the ancient Ganzhi calendar that represents seasonal changes. It is a time when vitality is abundant, but also a time when yin energy is declining. During the Qingming Festival, the old is exchanged for the new, vitality begins to flourish, the temperature rises, all things are clean, and the earth presents an image of spring and brightness. This season is a good time for outings in the suburbs (spring tours) and tomb-sweeping rituals (tomb-worshipping rituals). The Qingming Festival integrates the solar term with folk customs, and is a combination of the right time, the right place, and the right people. Do you know about the cultural connotation of Qingming Festival?Qingming Festival is the most solemn and grand festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation. It is a traditional cultural festival for honoring ancestors and remembering the dead. The Qingming Festival embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral sentiments of respecting their ancestors and carrying on their wills. Tomb sweeping is also called "tomb sacrifice", which is called "timely respect" for ancestors. The two sacrifices in spring and autumn have existed since ancient times. Qingming Festival has a long history and originated from ancestor worship and spring sacrificial customs in ancient times. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are belief in heaven and earth, and belief in ancestors. According to archaeological excavations, a tomb dating back 10,000 years was discovered at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong. It is the earliest tomb in China with a confirmed burial style, indicating that ancient ancestors had clear and conscious burial behaviors and ritual concepts 10,000 years ago. The custom of "tomb sacrifice" has a long historical origin. The Qingming "tomb sacrifice" is a synthesis and sublimation of traditional spring customs. The formulation of the ancient Ganzhi calendar provided the prerequisite for the formation of the festival. Ancestor belief and sacrificial culture are important factors in the formation of the Qingming ancestor worship customs. The Qingming Festival has rich customs, which can be summarized into two major festival traditions: one is to honor ancestors and remember the dead; the other is to go on outings and get close to nature. The Qingming Festival not only has the themes of tomb sweeping, remembrance and memorializing, but also has the themes of outing and refreshing the body and mind. The traditional concept of "harmony between man and nature" is vividly reflected in the Qingming Festival. Through historical development, Qingming Festival in the Tang and Song dynasties integrated the customs of Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival, blending various folk customs from many places into one, and has extremely rich cultural connotations. |
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