Chinese Traditional Festivals – Qing Ming

Qing Ming Tomb

scan is also known today, and as a festival is to keep one day for people to honor some of the activities ancestors past. That day by habit, people bring flowers, food, wine and paper money, etc., to clean the graves dead and mourning is why Qing Ming Tomb Sweeping Day called.
In fact, Qing Ming Festival is connected to another festival, or cold foods Hanshi Day, which usually comes one day before the festival of Qing Ming. On this day, people are not cooking for the memory of a faithful man JieZiTui cost of living in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), because he had cut a piece of Flesh of her leg to save his Lord of the exile was hungry. After nineteen years later, the Lord has a chance and I went back to his post, but he has forgotten those faithful men victims Jie. Later, he recalled, and shame and decided to reward him.
However Jie were isolated in the mountains with his mother. To find Jie of this mountain, the Lord commanded the fire to hunt. However, they were not, and later found Jie death of his mother. To commemorate Jie, the Lord commanded that the day died Jie Hanshi (Cold Food) Festival was – the day when only cold food can be eaten. The second year was when the Lord went up the mountain to sacrifice, Jie, he again pastures, he gave instructions that was the day after Qing Ming Festival Hanshi Festival. Later, the two festivals have been together as one – Ching Ming Festival. As our ancestors often extended the day of the Qing Ming, they were all later.
This tag is not only a festival for the people in memory of the dead but to celebrate the coming of spring and people enjoy themselves. Qing Ming is one of 24 seasonal division points in China and an important holiday for Chinese. There is usually a fall on April 4 to 6 each spring and the transition to the Chinese, because it means that the temperature rises and more and working for farmers and heavy rainfall during this period
The trees and the grass turning green, the sun is hot and the air is fresh, so that people think some outdoor activities that day, hope to have a new look this year, such as climbing, paragliding and family picnic.
In this moment are all tourists and visitors should go to places like Tiananmen Square to see all kinds of activities by the locator. Kite, it will be of all shapes and sizes, flying in the sky, even a few hundred meters long, is it is very interesting, and visitors can try to fly through the people themselves. />

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