讲义讲稿月材料part tomb sweeping day

1、1. In your hometown, what things do you do on Tomb-Sweeping Day?Pos.Nameregionwhat things?1234563、清明节（公历4月5日前后，农历二月后半月至三月上半月间） Tomb-Sweeping DayThe Qingming or Ching Ming festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English (sometimes also called Chinese Memorial Day or Ancestors Day), is a traditio

2、nal Chinese festival observed by the Han Chinese of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand. It falls on the first day of the fifth solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. （阴阳历）3、清明节（公历4月5日前后，农历二月后半月至三月上半月间） Tomb-Sweeping DayIn mainland China, the

3、holiday is associated with the consumption of qingtuan, green dumplings made of glutinous rice and Chinese mugwort （艾蒿）or barley grass. mgwt 3、清明节（公历4月5日前后，农历二月后半月至三月上半月间） Tomb-Sweeping DayQingming Festival is when Chinese people traditionally visit ancestral tombs to sweep them. This tradition has

4、been legislated by the Emperors who built majestic imperial tombstones for every dynasty. For over 5000 years, the Chinese imperials, nobility, merchants and peasantry alike have gathered together to remember the lives of the departed, to visit their tombstones to perform Confucian filial piety by t

5、ombsweeping, to visit burial grounds, graveyards or in modern urban cities to perform groundskeeping and maintenance, and to commit to pray for their ancestors in the uniquely Chinese concept of the afterlife and to offer remembrances of their ancestors to living blood relatives, their kith and kin.

6、 nsestrl ledsletd pezntri knfjun flil pati 3、清明节（公历4月5日前后，农历二月后半月至三月上半月间） Tomb-Sweeping DayThe Qingming Festival commemorates the life of the departed in an elaborate set of rituals often mistranslated in the West as ancestral worship. Actually, it is a Confucian form of posthumous respect and filia

7、l piety offered to a Chinese persons ancestors, departed relatives, or parents. Not all Chinese persons will pray directly to their ancestors in ancestral spirit but almost all will observe the Qing Ming Rituals.kmemret pstms 3、清明节（公历4月5日前后，农历二月后半月至三月上半月间） Tomb-Sweeping DayThe young and old alike kn

8、eel down to offer prayers before tombstones of the ancestors, offer the burning of joss in both the forms of incense sticks (joss-sticks) and silver-leafed paper (joss-paper), sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, and/or libations in memory of the ancestors. Depending on the religion of the obser