Tomb-sweeing day rofileQing Ming is a time to remember the dead and the dearly dearted More imortant, it is a eriod to honour and to ay resect to ones deceased ancestors and family members Because it reinforces(加强) the ethic of filial iety（虔诚）, Qing Ming is a major Chinese festival Literally meaning “clear” (Qing) and “bright” (Ming), this Chinese festival falls in early sring, on the 106th day after the winter solstice It is a “sring” festival, and it is an occasion for the whole family to leave the home and to swee the graves of their forebears Chinese being ractical eole this sweeing of the graves is given an extended eriod, that is, 10 days before and after Qing Ming day Among some dialect(方言) grous a whole month is allocated China has a long history of ancestor worshi, as early as in ancient times had the emerors, governors to sacrifice（牺牲） ceremony, temle of the sring and autumn eriod Confucius MuJi, these all belong to noble eculiar In qin, noble system after the fall, just have the general ublic offering to the ancestors of grave custom General Tomb- sweeing day grave can be divided into two kinds of ceremony:Tomb-sweeing day origin Day eole visited Jie Zituis tomb the next day to ay their resects Over time, Hanshi Day was relaced with tomb-sweeing day He rewarded the officials who had stayed loyal to him but he forgot about Jie Zitui By the time Chonger remembered him, a heartbroken Jie Zitui had traveled dee into the mountains Chonger wanted to ersuade Jie to come home, so he had the hills set on fire But Jie was later found beside a large tree, with his old mother on his back Both were dead Saddened by the tragedy, Chonger ordered that fires could not be lit on the day of Jie Zituis death From this comes Hanshi Day, or Cold Food Its origin dates back to the Sring and Autumn eriod Jin rince Chonger ran away from the country with his suorters due to ersecution They were homeless for 19 years and things got so bad that Chonger began to starve to death One of the rinces faithful followers, Jie Zitui, cut a iece of muscle from his own leg and served it to his master Chonger was saved and, in 636 BC, he took back the throne Tomb-sweeing day custom A Time to Taste Tea 品茶 Qingming Festival is also a time to enjoy a cu of tea, because the tea roduced around Qingming Festival is said to be with high- qualitySring Outing 春游、踏青 It is a fine time to go out and to areciate the beautiful scenes of nature during the festival This custom can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty and followed by each dynasty later till today So visitors can be seen everywhere during the month of the festivalFlying Kites 放风筝 What makes flying kites during this festival secial is that eole cut the string while the kite is in the sky to let it fly free It is said this brings good luck and that diseases can be eliminated by doing thislanting Willow Trees 插柳 Because Jie Zitui died embracing a willow tree, the willow is believed to have miraculous owers against evil During the Qingming Festival, willow branches are hung on door fronts and used to swee the tombsSwinging 荡秋千 The common swing has offered sort to many children throughout the world During the Ming Dynasty, swinging was a designated recreation on the Qingming Festival, also known as the Clear and Bright Festival or the Tomb Sweeing Festival Because the festival generally occurs in mid-sring, many also use the occasion for family outingsTomb Sweeing or Ancestor Worshiing 扫墓 The major custom in Qingming Festival is tomb sweeing According to folk religion, the sirits of deceased ancestors still live underground and look after the family; the tombs are said to be their houses; thus it is very imortant to kee the tombs cleanTomb-sweeing day keywords flower burials 花葬 celestial burial 天葬 tree burial 树葬 boat-coffin burial 船棺葬 sea-burial 海葬 cremation 火葬 inhumation 土葬 filial iety 孝顺 孝心 cremation urn 骨灰盒 sring outing 踏青 kite flying 放风筝 tomb-sweeing 扫墓 burn incense 焚香 funeral sulies 殡葬用品 hell note 纸钱 online tomb-sweeing 网上祭扫 mortician 殡仪业者 Cold Food Festival 寒食节 Internet memorial 网络纪念馆 day of sacrifice 祭祀节日 Tomb-sweeing Day