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Grave-sweeping is not only a kind of "tomb sacrifice", but also a kind of "respect for ancestors", and its custom has a long history. In the north, it is called going to the grave; Some places are called "sweeping mountains" or "worshipping mountains"; Some areas in the south are called "hanging mountains" or "hanging paper". There are two kinds of "mountains" for offering sacrifices: one is called "home mountain" for tracing ancestors within three generations, and the sacrifice of home mountain is called "family sacrifice"; The other is the worship of clan ancestors, which is called "Zushan" and "Dazhongshan", and the worship of Zushan is called "sweeping Dazhongshan".

Grave-sweeping refers to offering sacrifices to ancestors in a cemetery to express filial piety and yearning for ancestors, which belongs to a cultural tradition of honoring ancestors and pursuing the future with caution. According to custom, people usually set off in the morning to visit graves. When sweeping graves, people should bring wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, trim the graves, cultivate new soil, remove weeds, offer food to the graves of ancestors, then burn paper money and kowtow to worship. Influenced by traditional cultural psychology, China people have a strong sense of family, paying special attention to their families and ancestors, and they have a strong sense of ancestor worship and returning to their ancestral home. Sweeping their graves is a special way to commemorate their ancestors.

"Qing thomas lee" said: "Eat cold food on New Year's Eve, celebrate the first frost festival, and offer sacrifices to sweep the graves. At the end of the year, you should wear white clothes, bring wine and tools for cutting vegetation to serve the grave. You shut up the tree and cut down Cao Jing, which is called sweeping the grave. " And spread to this day.

1. Clean the cemetery in advance. See "Mourning the Grave".

2. Refers to the whole process of sweeping graves. Including sweeping graves, cleaning up garbage, offering flowers, offering sacrifices and other processes.

"History of the Song Dynasty Tang Kezhuan": "Bachelor Yan Kangtang knows Tanzhou, so please go to Qiantang to sweep the grave, and then change to Hangzhou as an official."

Shen Fu in Six Chapters of a Floating Life in the Qing Dynasty: "On Qingming Day, my husband offered a spring sacrifice to the grave, and the rest traveled with me."

The Ming Dynasty's "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" reads: "On the Qingming Day in March, the man offered sacrifices to his ancestors, bearing _, hanging an ingot behind his sedan chair, and the road was full of embarrassment. Worshipers, mourners, weeping, weeding, adding soil to graves, burning ingots several times, and buying graves with paper money. If there is no paper money in front of you, it will be a lonely grave. " He didn't come back after crying. He hurried to Xiang Shu, chose the garden and sat down drunk.

Bing Xin's "To a Young Reader" 23: "Although Tomb-Sweeping Day does not burn paper money, it can also cultivate children's respect and silent respect for their ancestors."