It Was Another Year When It Was Clear And Bright.

For the agricultural China, which is crisscrossed by crisscross footpaths, perhaps Qingming is just a solar term of slash and burn; for the loyal and filial piety moral China, perhaps Qingming is just a kind of sacrifice to recognize the ancestors and return to the motherland; perhaps for poetry and song culture China, Qingming is just an encounter of gifted and beautiful ladies.

In ancient times, Qingming Festival was the day of poetic prosperity of literati and literati. Qingming poetry took the lead in the chanting of twenty-four solar terms.

In the same Qingming poem, in the face of the pear blossoms dancing in the wind, Wu Weixin of the Song Dynasty enjoyed the leisurely leisure of "the pear blossom wind is clear and bright, and the wandering child finds spring out of the city".

In the face of the grassy and luxuriant tomb, Gao Song, a Southern Song Dynasty, gave birth to a feeling that "wine must be drunk when life is lost."

In the Northern Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian expressed the melancholy of "one who knows all kinds of virtues and who knows, who is full of eyes."

But, friend, do you know the origin of Qingming Festival?

Can you tell me about the cultural connotation of Qingming Festival?

Can you count the customs of Qingming Festival?

Du Mu's "Qingming season rainy day, pedestrians on the road want to break the soul" you may recite, but you can tell it and Du Fu's "Jia Chen strong diet is still cold, hidden several depression Dai Jie Guan" "March 3rd weather new, Changan waterside beautiful people" and what is the relationship?

Qingming, as one of the twenty-four solar terms, appeared in "Huainan son astronomy" first. "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, it is Qingming."

Zhu Kezhen pointed out that the lunar calendar system can not be used to guide agricultural production, which requires the use of twenty-four solar terms as a supplementary means.

Therefore, solar terms are a time node used to assist the lunar calendar and guide agricultural production.

Contemporary scholars generally believe that the custom of sacrificing sacrifices and outing to become an important festival of Qingming Festival mainly came from cold food festival and Shangsi Festival.

The cold food festival is on the two day or the day before Qingming. On this day, people often ban fire and cold food (cold food), tomb offering, and perform some witchcraft games.

At the time of Tang Xuanzong, the court fixed the custom of sweeping the grave to the cold food festival in the form of decrees.

Because cold food and Qingming are closely linked to each other, cold food festival customs are very early associated with Qingming, cold food ban fire, Qingming fire, tomb sweeping from cold food to Qingming, to Zhenyuan six years (AD 790), cold food and Qingming holidays have increased to 7 days.

Wang Lengran's "cold food chapter" said: "Qiu Gui Yang Chongyang winter wax, not as cold food before spring."

Cold food ban fire, cold food sacrifice tomb, Qingming take a new fire outing.

Before the Tang Dynasty, cold food and Qingming were two festivals with different themes but one with different themes. One was nostalgia for mourning, one for seeking new nursing students, one for Yin and one for life, and the two were closely related.

Prohibition of fire is for the sake of fire. Sacrifice is for the benefit of life. This is the internal cultural connection between cold food and Qingming.

Some scholars believe that the festival custom of Shangsi festival was also merged into Qingming Festival.

In ancient times, in the early days of March, it was "Shangsi". "Post Han Shu ritual records" called this day "officials and people are all clean on the east side of the river, and they said they should wash away the scale disease to be clean."

In the spring, young men and women can play in the open country and express their love for each other, which is actually "Valentine's Day" in ancient China.

After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Shangsi was changed to March 3rd, and Wu Zimu's "dream Liang Lu" rolled out in March.

Tang Dynasty gave a banquet in Qujiang.

It can be seen that washing and stepping into the dirt is the common feature of almost all spring festivals.

After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, not only Shangsi Festival withdrew from the festival system, but also the cold food festival.

After the Spring Festival, there was only one Tomb Sweeping Day in the good spring.

Because these two festivals are ancient cultural festivals about spring, and unfortunately they just benefit from the Qingming solar terms. We know that cultural festivals can be changed with the changes of the times. But the clear and bright solar terms are not cultural festivals. They are the symbols of time produced by the operation of Tai Yang and the division of mathematics. They are a product of logic and are immutable.

Variable cultural festivals unfortunately encounter immutable solar terms, resulting in variable cultural festivals giving way to immutable time symbols.

Of course, the two symbolic meanings of the two sections, one is "Thanksgiving commemoration", the other is "freshmen", but it has not disappeared, but deposited in the Qingming Festival.

Unlike other traditional festivals, Ching Ming Festival is a comprehensive holiday that combines "solar terms" and "festival customs". Therefore, Qingming Festival is also a rare festival in the traditional festival system, which is determined by the solar calendar. The festival time is fixed in April 5th before the current Gregorian calendar.

This is the spring outing season.

"Zhou Li" has been quoted by numerous literati and scholars in the past dynasties: "in the mid spring month, the men and women will be able to help."

What does that mean?

It is said that in the spring of February, everything began to sprout. Such a season should be adapted to the weather, so that young men and women should not be allowed to date or even run together.

Zheng Xuan believes that this is "heaving the right time, the right to make it."

According to Zhang Junfang's "Yun Ju seven sign": "every year in March 3rd, the silkworm market, the people far and near, praying to beg for interest," shows that in March 3rd, in the institutionalized Taoism, it was also given a clear function of seeking children, because young men and women had the "wild coincidence" of the mulberry forest, but this is the reason why they couldn't get on the table.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, cold food and Qingming were juxtaposition for holidays. Different years had four to seven days of vacation.

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