Every Qingming season, worship and sweep ancestors, go out to enjoy flowers, and have a picnic on the grass...... Become a must-do for people during the holidays.
In fact, these Qingming customs have come through thousands of years, and those ancients with fluttering sleeves have shown us a full range of Qingming pictures in the recitation of poems and in the traditional picture scrolls.
Let's take a look at how the ancients' "Qingming holiday" was spent in a fancy way through ancient poems and paintings.
Everything grows at this time, clean and clear
The word "Qingming", as a solar term, was first seen in the Book of Yizhou. It is recorded in the "Yi Zhou Shu Zhou Yue Explanation" that "in the middle of spring and March, the spring equinox and the Qingming Festival";
In the Western Han Dynasty philosophical work "Huainanzi", it is mentioned that "on the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, the bucket finger B, then the Qingming wind arrives". The Chinese explains: "There are eight winds from time to time, and the calendar refers to the Qingming wind as the March Festival, and this wind belongs to Xun. All things are in unison, and everything is clean and clear at this time. "Hundred Questions of the Year" says: "When all things grow, they are clean and clear. Therefore, it is called Qingming. ”
From this point of view, the word "Qingming" means clean and clear, that is, the sky is clear and the earth is clear.
Spring outing to the lake
Song Xu Zhuan
When will the double flying swallow return?
The peach blossoms on the shore are dipped in water and boiled.
The spring rain breaks the bridge, and people don't spend it,
The boat stretched out of the willow shade.
On the day of the Qingming Festival, the fire in the house was late
When Qingming was still a "little brother of solar terms", the "Cold Food Festival" had already become famous. Legend has it that this festival was established to commemorate the loyal minister Jie Zitui in the Spring and Autumn Period. During this period of banning smoke and fire, the ancients had to live with cold food, representing people's praise for loyalty and integrity.
Historical data show that before the Tang Dynasty, "Qingming" has always existed as one of the 24 solar terms, playing a role in guiding agricultural production; after the Tang Dynasty, "Qingming" was integrated with the Shangsi Festival and the Cold Food Festival, thus forming a new Qingming Festival.
Cold Food Banquet (Part 1)
Don Zhang
Chaoguang Rui is full of palace buildings, and the colorful fish dragon is thick all around.
The imperial kitchen under the corridor divides cold food, and the incense rider in front of the palace flies one after another.
Thousands of officials are drunk and sitting, and all the dramas are unrelenting.
Gongxi Byrne invaded the night, and Jin Wu didn't dare to ask the reason.
Qingming willow planting: smell the sale of wicker along the street
The famous painting "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" by Zhang Zeduan, a famous painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, has a high reputation. Although there are many interpretations of the word "Qingming", some researchers believe that the "Qingming solar term" is the most compatible and reasonable one with the painting itself.
Most of the more than 170 trees painted in the picture are willow trees, the willow branches are thin and soft, and the willow leaves are numerous and tender green, which is the scene before and after the Qingming Festival, and it is also an important evidence to prove that the "Qingming Riverside Map" depicts the Qingming solar term.
Some folklore experts point out that trees are often seen as a symbol of life. "Qingming does not wear willows, and the red face becomes bright." As a large-scale spring prayer ceremony in ancient China, the Qingming Festival and willow trees naturally have an indissoluble bond.
Qingming day garden send friends
Don Ja Island
Today's Qingming Festival, the garden is biased.
The clear wind blows the catkins, and the new fire starts the kitchen smoke.
Du Cao opens three paths, and the article recalls the two sages.
When can you kill the drive, before the wine falls.
The spring breeze blows, take advantage of the wind to let go of the paper kite
There are many retrospectives related to Qingming in "Dream of Red Mansions", and the imagery combined with kites has been well known to readers of all generations.
In the twenty-second episode of "Listening to the Song Wenbao Jade Wu Zen Machine, Making Lantern Riddles Jia Zheng's Sad Words", during the Lantern Festival, everyone in Jiafu made lantern riddles for fun. When Jia Zheng read the lantern riddle made by Tanchun, he looked down again: when the children under the stairs are on their backs, Qingming makeup is the most appropriate. The gossamer was broken and weak, and Mo complained to the east wind. Jia Zhengdao: "This is a kite. Tanchun smiled: "Yes." ”
Some researchers have pointed out that the "kite" at the end of the mystery and the "Qingming decoration in the mystery are the most appropriate", emphasizing that the kite is an important festival in the Qingming season. Before and after the Qingming Festival, it is just the right sun, when the spring breeze blows, "busy taking advantage of the east wind to fly paper kites" at this time is also a joy after the outing. (Mo Shaohua, Li Dongbao, part of the material comes from the Internet)