tomb- sweeping day april 4-6 solar terms 节气 festival

Tomb-sweeping

Day April4-6

SolarTerms节气

Festival

The Sacrifice——三月里来是清明

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祭品 纸钱 烧香 坟墓 扫墓者 踏青 go hiking

tomb sweeper

sacrifice

ghost money

grave/ tombburn incense

※Origin

介子椎晋国公子重耳

（晋文公）

Lord Jie

Cold Food Festival

Green Dumpling

青团 （艾糍）

---cold food

※The Customs

Go Tomb Sweeping

--- for ancestor worship

Fly Kites---to sweep away the ill-fortune

Swing

---to prevent disease

---the higher, the healthier

Play Cuju

---to make the body fit and strong

---other sports: tug-of-war play polo

拔河打马球

蹴鞠

Hang willow branches

---to exorcize

---life-force

---"liu" save the life

驱鬼

※Tomb-sweeping DayIn Our Hometowns

Julia ： In my home town Guizhou when the Tomb-sweeping Day comes, we pay respect to our relatives or friends who passed away. We take the food they like when he/she's alive to the tombs. And we burn ghost money. In the end, all the relatives have lunch together.

The original ghost money The modern ghost money

Betty ： When the Tomb-sweeping Day’s coming, all of my relatives go to our ancestral tomb. First,we clean branch and leaves and pull up weeds around the tomb. After sweeping the ground, we put fish, pork, chicken, some fruit and candies that we have prepared. In the end, we set off firecrackers then leave.

Lily ： In Jiangmen,the willow branches were inserted on each gate in order to add vigor and vitality to the surroundings. But it actually means more than that. This custom can be tracedback to over one thousand years ago.

Mary ： On Tomb-Sweeping Day , people in Guangzhou usually plant trees on the mountain . So , Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Arbor Day .On Tomb-Sweeping Day , we often fly kites and tie something light to the kites . It is said in this way , people will also be protected from bad luck and disease .

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