It is held every year. Sacrificing tombs is the most serious traditional folk custom and national behavior popular among Chinese descendants for thousands of years. Sacrifice to Huangdi Mausoleum is one of the national intangible cultural heritages, which has formed a certain scale format and ritual apparatus in long-term practice.

Since 2004, Xuanyuan Huangdi Sacrifice Ceremony has been held in the newly-built Huangdi Mausoleum Sacrifice Square, and the Tomb-Sweeping Day Huangdi Mausoleum Sacrifice has been greatly improved in scale, specification, content and form.

Significance: Every year, more than 10,000 people attend the Qingming public sacrifice ceremony, including state leaders, representatives of relevant central ministries and commissions, representatives of brother provinces and cities, compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, Taiwan Province compatriots and overseas Chinese.

The Huangdi Mausoleum Festival has realized the combination with Taiwan's work, the promotion of Chinese culture, and the unity and cohesion of overseas compatriots, highlighting the themes of national identity, national unity, civilization inheritance, self-improvement and innovation, and showing the concept of rejuvenation and development of the Chinese nation with the same roots.

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There are five rites, and nothing is more important than sacrifice. In ancient China, people thought that only sacrifice and war were the two most important things for a country. All kinds of utilitarian activities in people's social life are closely related to the sacrificial activities at that time. "On the National Danger of Lu Yu", "The husband's sacrifice is a big festival of the country, and it is also a political festival. Sacrifice is a national code, and it is also cautious". Therefore, it has always been an ancient tradition of our nation to pursue the future with caution.

Sacrifice to heaven and earth, ancestral temple, ghosts and gods, all-round sacrifice, all kinds of sacrifices, all kinds of styles, and thus derived a magnificent sacrifice culture. And a more grand ceremony and music civilization is derived from the sacrificial culture, which also constitutes the backbone of Chinese culture.

The Yellow Emperor led the ancestors of the Chinese nation to open floodplains, enlightened the HarmonyOS system, initiated the material and spiritual civilization of the Chinese nation, became the source of Chinese civilization, was the pioneer and pioneer of Chinese civilization, and was the pioneer of Chinese culture and Chinese national spirit.

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