Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country, and it is also the most important sacrificial festival. It is a day for ancestor worship and tomb sweeping. Tomb-sweeping, commonly known as Shang-tomb-sweeping, is an activity to worship the deceased. Most of the Han and some ethnic minorities are tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival.
According to the old custom, when sweeping the tomb, people should bring wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food to the tomb of their relatives, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the grave, fold a few green branches and insert it on the grave , and then kowtow to pay homage, and finally eat food and drink and go home. The poem "Qingming" by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: "There is a lot of rain during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. How can I ask where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village from a distance." It wrote the special atmosphere of Qingming Festival.
Tomb-sweeping day, when spring returns to the earth, the grass and trees are green, and the nature is full of vitality, which is a good time for outings. Therefore, people not only take outings, but also perform a series of colorful entertainment activities such as swings, Cuju, tug-of-war, etc., which make the festival full of spring joy.