No matter whether we believe in the afterlife, the afterlife, the underworld and heaven, everyone will feel sad and sorry for the death of their loved ones. At the same time, I hope that the deceased relatives really have souls and live happily in the "underworld". It is good for people's physical and mental health to vent their memory of their dead relatives during grave-sweeping activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty said: "It rains in succession during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Vivid images show people remembering their ancestors and expressing their grief in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
2. Take a walk and enjoy the scenery
During the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day, everything grew and was full of vitality, and Shan Ye was green. There is a cloud in "A Hundred Questions at the Age of Years": "Everything grows clean and bright at this time. So it is called Qingming. " Going out to sweep graves and walking in nature at this time is pleasing to the eye and a good spring outing exercise. The ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming Festival and carrying out sports activities. In ancient times, Tomb-Sweeping Day was also called an outing festival. Every "outing" day, urban people, rich or poor, go to the graves of relatives in the suburbs to worship their ancestors and go for an outing. Qualified literati are all poems that "gallop in spring", appreciate the scenery and rhyme correctly. Ouyang Xiu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said, "It's halfway through the spring in the South Garden, and the weather is beautiful, so I hear about Ma Si. Green plums are like beans and eyebrows, and butterflies fly every day. " ("Ruan Langgui for an outing"). Wu Weixin, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said: "Pear blossoms rose in the early Ming Dynasty, and wanderers went out of the city to find spring. At dusk, the songs are packed away, and Wanliu is a warbler. " ("Su Causeway Qingming is a thing")
3. Teach filial piety by example.
Grave-sweeping activities can cultivate future generations' filial piety to their elders and respect and nostalgia for their deceased ancestors. In some places, a ceremony is held in the first half of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year to take ancestors back to the Yang family to visit relatives, take them home in early July, and send them back to the "underworld" on July 14th and 15th. There is a folk saying: "There is a July and a half every year, and the predecessors show it to future generations." The implication is that I hope that future generations will not forget the sufferings and merits of their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, usually with children, also has this meaning. Many children know who their ancestors are through grave-sweeping activities.
4. Family reunion
Taking advantage of the opportunity of Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, family and friends get together once, talk about family affairs, experience family ties, enhance feelings and have fun. When remembering and remembering the deceased ancestors, family reunion can make people feel the importance of life and the value of family ties.
What are the benefits of a Qingming outing? 1, improve blood circulation
During the Qingming period, the temperature gets warmer, and it is the best way to strengthen the heart by traveling in the countryside in spring and doing some light activities, which can enhance the vitality of lower limb muscles and tendons, be flexible and scary, and improve blood circulation and coronary blood circulation.
2. Massage human organs
During the Qingming Festival, the grass grows thick and the heart is rugged, and the whole body will be shocked. This impact can prevent sediment from appearing on the blood vessel wall and accelerate the dispersion of the dregs inside; Rhythmic walking and low-frequency moderate vibration can better massage the internal organs.
3. Regulate human metabolism
During the Qingming Festival, the earth is green, the air is fresh and the sun is shining. There are many "longevity elements" in the atmosphere-negative ions, which are natural "good medicine" for regulating human metabolism and an ideal "antidote" for treating mental stress.
The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day's outing; the custom of China's outing has a long history. Legend was first formed in the pre-Qin period, and some people say it began in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. According to the Book of Jin, every spring, people go to the suburbs to enjoy the scenery together, especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties. According to "Old Tang Book", "In February of the second year of Dali, at noon, it was fortunate that Kunming was green." It can be seen that the custom of spring outing has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. In Song Dynasty, outing was very popular.
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, the ancients often went to the water's edge for a spring outing to offer sacrifices, in order to get rid of disasters and seek happiness, mainly to pray for human reproduction.
Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of hiking has been the same. "Wenzhou Fuzhi" records: "During the Qingming Festival, many people invited relatives and friends to visit the lake." Whenever spring returns to the earth and the vegetation is lush, people go to the suburbs for an outing, play and fly kites with great interest. Especially since the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, many local chronicles and local documents have recorded the scene of flying kites during the Qingming period. Until today, spring outing is still loved by people.