It's another year of green grass, and once a year it's clear. The spring rain drains and washes away the dullness. Clear and poignant, full of thoughts. Before the Qingming Dynasty, it was a cold winter day, when it was a pious thought, and after the Qingming Dynasty, it was full of mountains and lushness.
Qingming Festival, which has both natural and humanistic connotations, is not only one of the "twenty-four solar terms", but also a traditional ancestor worship festival.
As a traditional festival with a long history, the long history has attracted countless literati to mourn and praise, and the charm of the text lies in its ability to bring memories of past lives through thousands of years.
Solar term customs
Tread green
Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has had the custom of walking in the Green Age. In ancient times, it was called exploring spring, seeking spring, etc., that is, spring outing, "stepping on spring".
Fly a kite
Kites are also known as "paper kites" and "kites", and kite flying is a favorite activity of people during the Qingming Festival.
Sweep the grave to worship the ancestors
Tomb sweeping in the Qingming Dynasty, that is, "tomb sacrifice", is called the "respect for the time" of ancestors, and the ancestors are a way of remembering the ancestors, and their customs have a long history.
Qingming with tea
Qingming Festival is a watershed for tea. Before the festival, it is delicate and elegant; after the festival, it becomes more and more rough and barbaric.
The Qingming tea is the tea picked during the Qingming season and belongs to the first catechin of the new spring. Saving the energy of a winter, full of heaven and earth essence, tea color emerald green, soft leaves, fragrant and mellow, strange and elegant, and rich in a variety of vitamins and amino acids, so there is "Mingqian tea, expensive as gold" said.
Now the volume of "Qingming tea" has gradually faded, and more people are accustomed to collectively referring to it as "Mingqian tea", and at the same time, the custom of tea sacrifice is gradually forgotten.
The reason why tea is sacrificed is because the ancients believed that tea had a "clean, dry" effect. Tea has always been an auspicious object, and in funeral customs, it has also become an important "keepsake". With tea as a sacrifice, it is said that it can exorcise demons, eliminate disasters and diseases, bless children and grandchildren, and make people prosperous.
Qingming, a poem, a hand in hand with a mountain, pouring a tea, and meeting with a water. Xu half of the tea fragrance, xu half of the time, life, like a cup of tea, taste it, light fragrance leisurely.
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