The English translation of Qing Ming Jie is ‘Pure and Bright Festival’ or ‘Clear and Bright Festival. It’s the same as the western All Soul’s Day. This festival comes once a year around early April. It falls on 106th day after the winter solstice in December. Qing Ming Jie is about worshipping ancestors and Filial Piety. People visit columbaria and cemeteries with foods and other similar things to offer the ancestors.
Origins
In the Zhou Dynasty (1125-225 BC) Qing Ming was marked as a festival. On this day emperors and other high-ranked officials would carry out a religious ceremonial act in ancestral veneration. However, this ritual changed during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 23 AD) and the common people also began to attend this festival. People started to offer their prayers in graveyards and cemeteries rather than ancestral temples.
Many scholars argue about the Qing Ming Jie’s origin. According to them, this festival is a replica of ‘Han Shi Jie’ (寒食节) which means ‘Cold Food Festival’ but other scholars disagreed. There is a popular story behind this concept which took place many centuries back during the Zhou dynasty in China. Once a ruler of Qin named Duke Wen invited Chieh Chih Tui (Jie Zi Tui, 介子推) who was considered as a loyal subject of Duke Win, in celebration of his position as sovereign of a small principality. But, Chieh Chih refused the invitation saying that he is returning to the mountains in order to take care of his parents although many scholars have just mentioned his mother. To stop Chieh Chih, Duke Win ordered his army to burn down the entire forest. This did not scare Chieh Chih and he remained to his decision resulting in his death.
After Chieh Chih’s death, Duke Win ordered to put all fires out to commemorate him and celebrate that day as his death anniversary; hence, marking it as Han Shi Jie. . Following the rituals people eat raw food on Han Shi Jie. Since then this festival takes place every 105th day past the winter solstice in December followed by the Qing Ming. The customs and rituals of Han Shi resemble Qing Ming as people offer their prayers by making a tomb for their ancestors. However, this festival came to end during the Tang period and it was replaced by Qing Ming where people pay homage to their ancestors in graveyards and cemeteries.
Ceremonies and Rites
People perform various traditional practices including visiting the ancestral grave, preparing tablets or niches in 10 days prior to or after the festival.
Descendants buy tablets or niches to offer to the grave of their ancestors. Plus, people offer food items like chicken, pork, duck, and fish. Not only flesh they also offer fruits, vegetables, wine, tea, and rice. If the niche or tablet is set in the temple then the offerings do not include any type of meat. People offer vegetables and fruits instead.
The public departs early on this day to avoid hefty traffic, especially around columbaria and cemeteries. Before paying homage people first undertake sao mau (which means ‘sweeps the grave’). It includes removing all the weeds and grass that grow around the tombstone, dusting the ancestor’s grave, and painting faded parts of it.
People offer their prayers to different deities and spirits. The rituals include offering the first prayer to an important deity Tu Di Gong (土地公, “God of the Soil”) who was worshipped by Taoists. People also offer to these wandering spirits that have nobody to pay offerings. The offerings are paid to the wandering spirit so that they do not touch the family ancestral offerings.
Whether worshipping in the cemetery, temple, or columbaria it does not make any difference.
They all are similar to one another. Foods are offered on the grave, temple altar, or niche accompanied by joss sticks and red candles. They show their respect by bowing, kneeling, kowtowing before the tablets, niche, or grave holding joss sticks. Following the traditional rituals first, male members in the family pray and then female members.
After that, descendants burn paper gifts and false money to make sure that their ancestors are well off in the afterlife. This ritual includes a replica of varieties of material items like television, car, cars, servants, accessories, mobile phones, and houses. Several people write the name of their ancestors and descendants on the paper gifts and then burn it so that it safely arrives at their ancestors.
Then, people wait for their ancestor’s spirit to eat the food. After giving them enough time, people take all the food into their homes and consume it. Therefore, Qing Ming can also be considered a day when each member of the family gathers pays tribute and eats together.
Variation across the dialect groups
Hokkein and Teochew communities follow the tradition of placing ya Zhi (压纸), a colored paper on the tombstone. These colored papers are proof for other people that the people have visited their ancestral graves.
On this day Teochew performs another ritual of eating shells or bivalves. The shells of the bivalve are scattered around the ancestral grave after eating them. In this ritual cockles, shells are considered as gold which indicates prosperity in the family. Plus, it indicates to other people that the descendants have visited the tombstone.
The Cantonese worship their ancestors by placing three Chinese wine cups, cooked rice in three bowls, pork, chicken, lotus root, lettuce, sugar cane, and three pair of chopsticks around the grave.
Local adoption
The land scarcity in Singapore has compelled the government to exhume cemeteries which is why people are inclining more towards columbaria than cremations.
The traditional practice of visiting tombstones was popular till the 2000s. During Qing Ming, Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan (the Hokkein Can Association of Singapore) would organize a trip to the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery for the people to pay tribute to the unclaimed tombstone.
However, this practice was halted by the exhumation program at the Choa Chu Kang Cemetery run by the Singapore government. The remembrance practice of those gravestones was shifted towards the temple.
Qing Ming is stilled practiced by the Chinese people in Singapore regardless the religion or ethnicity. Chinese people who are not Taoist or Buddhist also pay homage to their ancestors. However, rather than practicing various traditional rituals, they offer their respect by remaining silent. They often offer a bouquet.
We have covered various traditional rituals performed by the different Chinese communities during Qing Ming. Furthermore, we mentioned how modern Chinese in Singapore celebrate this festival.
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Taking it directly can not only save fifty years of hard work, but also greatly enhance your mental strength.This is because you think highly of me, Qingyang. Ordinarily I shouldn t refuse your kindness, but unfortunately I have a loose temper.
The two of them ignored the fact that this was a pure temple.What a disciple of the sixth level of Qi is saying is really hilarious.
Hou Jiangong is telling the truth, Qingfeng Palace There are six to seven thousand disciples, but there are only dozens of Demon Seeking Orders in total, which is almost one in a hundred.Speaking of other things, at least I will have a lot of talking points to brag about with others in the future.
If this continues, there will only be a dead end. You must find a way to deal with the opponent as soon as possible.They were not of high grade and could only be regarded as low grade magic weapons.
He looks elegant. In fact, these are nothing. Although there are some strangely dressed monks like Chen Biwang among the monks, there are more people like this young man who are spiritual and have an extraordinary temperament.court death. But it s different now. The five of them are connected in life and death. As long as something happens to one of them, the others will definitely not be fine.
With a scream, it dived towards Qingyang, its two sharp claws glowing with cold light, vowing to kill Qingyang under its claws.Unexpectedly, that place was very evil. Everyone who went in got into trouble, except for one who was outside.
Next to him was a strong man with a build like a bear.However, at that time, the Tao family still knew the difference between good and evil.
Of course, the changes will not be as obvious as the iron armed monkeys.However, it was unbearable for Tian Shengcai and his wife, so they saved them.
In addition to the Green Bamboo Sword and Golden Shadow Sword in front of him, he had already secretly taken out the Burning Heart Sword, preparing to use his unique skill of the Three Yuan Sword Formation at the bottom of the box.The sword formation headed towards the butter umbrella.
Compared with her, she really needs this Foundation Building Pill more.Fellow Taoists Do you want to continue moving forward Tao Yougong asked.
The living dead looked even more terrifying. They were covered in blood and their faces were ferocious.Unexpectedly, the location of the Geocentric Tower they mentioned was so secret.
Harassment may very well turn into a decisive battle between monsters and monks, so you must be fully prepared in advance to avoid being caught off guard.So he nodded and said, It s a pity that this kind of treasure should be used by mortals, but if you use it for your close relatives, you can make the best use of it.
The location of Qingyang s new cave is relatively remote, but it is not particularly far from the forbidden area of Elder Jindan, and the figure flies high, Qingyang and Brother Cai can see it when they raise their heads.If the distance is further away, or the opponent escapes faster, Qingyang can t do anything.
Moreover, it was mixed with some sour and rotten smell, and it also contained a faint fishy smell, like digging up a coffin that had been buried for a long time.The Three Star Clear Miasma Pill is not too difficult for the current Qingyang.
In addition, Qingyang was seriously injured in the battle just now, and his body is even more weak.Now it seems that, as expected, this is the inner courtyard of the Qin family.
They knew that this was a life threatening mission, but the leader was missing.Among all the monks present, the leader of the Liang family, Liang Yudong, had the highest cultivation level.
After all, what advantage did the human monks have It would be nice not to lose, but even if you win in the end, you will have to pay a heavy price.It should be Still have several years to live. Perhaps because of the use of blood jade paste to change his qualifications, the Iron armed Monkey s cultivation speed has increased a lot in the past few years, and he finally reached the state of perfect Qi refining as he wished.
Duan Rusong still wanted to refuse a few words, but Xiaomei Yun next to him took it and said, I don t dare to refuse the gift from the elders.A life and death battle is inevitable. On the surface, Qingyang s strength is not much worse than that of the Liang family, but the Liang family s background is not comparable to that of a casual cultivator.
Ramparts and Fortresses Although it is embarrassing to ask for help from forces outside the camp, face is not that important compared to the loss.This is true. When dealing with the aborigines now, we really need help from people like Fatty Fatty.
epic The enemies this time are definitely of this level.This is also a special area of the Silver Federation, covered with snow all year round.
After the light beam dissipated, what appeared in front of him was the phantom shooter from unit 1320 wearing a dark green cloak and holding a long bow.Contracting the undead and summoning the undead are two different things.
nice one It can be thought of as an energy battery, but a magical version.Who can withstand this kind of consumption. But in terms of consumption, Zhao Hao s terrifying health value can barely withstand the consumption.
The orcs were not rich , they were poor. I have to wear pants quickly, and I can use the minerals and materials I usually get
to pay the bill. The price is much higher than that of the merchants I meet occasionally.152 spiritual tombs allowed Anros to recruit 1,064 units of fifth level ghosts.
Pass through the long and wide city gate and arrive outside the Glow Fortress.Then a disaster happened As for Princess Chang an, it s even simpler.
In other words, the name is not important, because this thing is equivalent to a faucet that helps the shadow plane erode the main plane.Tens of millions of orcs All the main force level strength starts, not including the opponent s subordinate races and allies, such as ogres, thunderbirds, cyclops, etc.
Judging from the memory before rebirth, Operation Broken Blade should have failed, otherwise it would not have affected the strength of Xia Kingdom s players.If you have a wild nest, you can just build the corresponding high level nest in the fortress.
At least half of the profits have to be consumed in these aspects.Control, use control spells to interrupt. High level spells take time to cast Spread out quickly, don t crowd together Use defensive skills quickly
Listening to these messy voices, An Luo, who was chanting spells, A cruel smile appeared on Si s lips.
It looks like we need to talk to Wall first Zhao Hao muttered to himself and set off with the caravan.In addition to range attacks, large targets cannot easily hit him.
conspiracy Zhao Hao smelled a strong atmosphere of conspiracy.But what surprised the poisonous scorpion was that his blow only penetrated deep into his knuckles and could no longer move forward.
The terrain nearby is flat and there is no danger to defend.After all, this is a special form. Not only is it powerful in close combat, it also has strong mobility and the special ability of spider silk.
Because if this continues, he will soon have five ace level regular combat capabilities.A certain Ka Zha Fei Jiang set the best example. A week later, the Holy Church will launch a counterattack
The other party s voice sounded in Zhao Hao s mind as he turned to leave.
Obviously, the answer to this question is important, important enough to determine before participating in the mission.Next, assign tasks. The angry dragon began to explain the details of the plan.
In other words, the opponent will only get the information that the army continues to besiege the resurrection point and attack the meeting hall in the fortress.You can know who the opponent is from the name of the equipment.
Heaven s Gate As long as you pass through this gate, you can enter this place that represents the highest power of the Holy Church.The Silver Pegasus on the city wall killed all the players and began to destroy the war machinery.
But who makes her still a hero Undead Army number of commanders 10 It seems that there is no sense of existence at all, which is far inferior to the specialty of the God of Death.How cruel Priests and priests were smashed to pieces.
Anyway, no monsters will be interested in the war machine, so there is no need to worry about damage.Advantage Judging from the scene, there are less than a hundred Storm Guards in number, and all of them are injured.
Sure enough Zhao Hao was not frightened when he saw this scene, but was actually a little happy.Step, step An Luosi didn t waste any time and stepped forward directly, while Zhao Hao and the soldiers stayed put.
At this time, among the nests under his command, even if we only count the nests in the barrier camp there are not many nests in the stronghold camp , the number is not a small number.Soon, Boch s actions It started to slow down. After all, it is not easy to avoid the attacks of vine snakes everywhere, let alone keep swinging the sword to cut off some vine snakes that cannot be avoided.
This is to return a favor Zhao Hao had helped them several times before.But in terms of value, the other party s friendship far exceeds the blood of beasts.
Call of the dead Zhao Hao sped up the summoning speed, allowing a steady stream of vampires to test the enemy s intelligence.Mia turned and left thoughtfully. She would not ask about the information provided by Zhao Hao, just like how he learned about her talent.
After trying to increase the speed like a rocket when killing creatures, and then slowly leveling up by killing the undead in the underworld, it was simply torture.There is no way, the reputation of the necromancer is already bad.
This is a personal Income. Money printing machine The other party is completely equivalent to a money printing machine.
The Yu Qing Thunder Code is the core inheritance technique of the superpower Yu Qing Sect.These are the five Hell Resisting Crystal Essences.
The corpses of the great monks that he put into the computer room, including the remaining four corpses of the great monks, were all the corpses of the great monks that he selected from the superpowers.Although the Great Venerable Hongfa is indeed weaker, this does not mean that the attack power of the Great Venerable Hongfa is really no threat.
Not only did they evacuate his cave, but they also destroyed his cave and the mountain.But it was too late, Li Shiming had already taken over and snatched away Li Yuanba s spiritual pet bag.
But things turned out as they wished. It is estimated that the powerful person did not expect that Li Shiming s computer room space was an independent self contained space and had no relationship with the world.This is why we have such a record of easily killing hell creatures.
After saying that, he turned around and flew away without any hesitation.Because he wanted to see Li Yuanba, he only had two days per month, but these two days were reserved by the sword cultivator of Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion.
This is what Jianyi Chongxiao Pavilion does not want to see.Especially the blessed sword intent. In a battle of this level, part of the sword intent will be consumed with every attack.
After Li Shiming exposed the Lingbao Heavenly Strike Hammer , he no longer wanted to let the great monk Duan Zhang survive.This is related to the need for spiritual energy from third grade elixirs and the rejection of third grade elixirs themselves.
In fact, Li Shiming detonated the white phosphorus bomb and the thermite bomb when he threw them.Fortunately, a friend rescued me and I had to come back Li Yuanba did not hide it from Lao Jian, he replied.
When the two great monks were attracted, they were suddenly attacked by the horse headed creature from the late fourth level hell.End of Chapter Monk Luo Pei sent all the spiritual objects into the cave and handed them over to Li Shiming.
Senior brother, I am still a master of alchemy, and I have some experience in refining the fourth grade elixir of the middle Nascent Soul Li Yuanba replied with a smile.This formation had no secrets for him. He could sense the formation.
In fact, after the demonstration of the sword cultivator team, almost all the super forces have their own different methods of dealing with the battle array of hell creatures.He felt the new rules imprints that appeared in Yuanying s body, and let out a long sigh of relief.
However, because the great monk Wang He thought that Li Shiming was controlled by the half step power, Li Shiming used his spiritual power again.The enhanced magical power obtained by Li Shiming was naturally shared with his clone Li Yuanba.
The sky thunder can ignore everything and directly act on the monk s location.Although this hidden formation was inspired by the array disk used, no matter the materials used to make the formation disk, the level of the formation master who made the formation disk, or the grade of the formation disk, it can be Said to be the top in the world of cultivating immortals.
Enemy attack The moment he was attacked, the mid stage Nascent Soul monk from Cangqiong Trading Company shouted.They have plans to storm the mountain gate of the Ten Thousand Beast Sect
It s just because we need to investigate your situation first and discuss the details with the White Emperor Sect Yuqing Sect that we didn t proceed immediately Brother Hu told the latest situation.
He thought that the female cultivator should be more talkative, so he asked Xin Jingyun to take Li Shiming to sit far away.This corpse could be exchanged for a lot of resources.
Even this method of dealing with the powerful invasion was easily solved by Li Yuanba, who was only in the middle stage of Nascent Soul.This is Yuntian Pavilion s top fourth grade spiritual tea.
Only then did the four of them firm up their minds and resume their old ways.The time of achievement is also after seven breaths.
Everyone, look up The phenomenon of God s remnant caused by the fall of a Taoist great power will last for a long time before it can be dissipated.Li Yunlong shouted There is no blame to blame. You relied on the talent of God, and you were too ambitious and too high minded, so you went too far.
If this feeling is correct, it means that the option of retreating from Ziwei s heart is eliminated either taking the big medicine, or cutting off three hundred years of swordsmanship.Xi. Mo Tianqing felt in his heart A move. The moment the extremely high level forbidden magic circle appeared just now, although his face remained calm, there were indeed ripples in his heart.
Wei Qingqi and Du Niansha looked at each other, and after slightly losing consciousness, their eyes were filled with incredulity.Zhengdang seemed to be extremely interested in this topic, he held his chin up and thought Ziwei Temple Ziwei Divine Kingdom Ziwei Divine Realm
Gui Wujiu smiled and waved his hand, saying That s not what I am referring to.
The shape of the lines asked in wonder How did you obtain this The simple young man smiled slightly and said Listen to Mr.Lin Yi spread his palms and glanced at him. In the palm of the hand, there is a bronze compass, with ten degrees as one moment.
Unexpectedly, his Eight Swords were named after the head of Xuanyuan Huai of Chenyang Sword Mountain.Moreover, the people who maintain this formation are demon king level characters for such characters, there is no such thing as lazy after just ten years when they see an attack from an incoming object, they immediately launch a counterattack.
However, Jing Ke may have been mistaken accepting Xun Qi s challenge is not a critical step, no matter what Jing Ke wants, he can always make it happen what s more, behind Xun Qi, there is Xun Shen.The white tiger seal fell suddenly Xi Lerong s heartstrings tightened, then he took a deep breath, used up the last potential of his body, and retreated There is clearly still a glimmer of magic power left in this white tiger seal.
When Xuanyuan Huai used the Xuanyuan sword, Gui Wujiu s heart moved.Yu Li and Yu Gu Cheng were slightly surprised when they saw it.
The Four Codes of the Demon Sect have reached the end, and it seems that they have another destination, and it is not among the nine fruits.This must be the message that Master uses as the base point of projection to spread in the world of Ziwei.
Testing, putting no blame on it, ensures that no matter whether it succeeds or fails, it will be fine.One, naturally, is to pull the threads of fate and change the original trajectory.
The formation of power emerged and reflected all the important events in the world of Ziwei in Qin Menglin s mind.However, between human hearts and minds, there are differences in opinions and ideas, and ultimately there is always room for incompatibility.
Standing at the head of the boat was none other than Yuan Ziying, the second head of the Xuanxiao Department.The rich and handsome one in purple robe is named Talking and Laughing the one with dull eyes is named Qi Yu the one sitting directly opposite Linghu Qubing is named Ji Fengyu.
Qi Xianren laughed loudly and said proudly Don t be anxious, I will send the treasurer on his way.If the Yin Yang Taoist relies on the power of this formation as a shield, then when he gets close, the seven layers of formation power cannot consume more than half.
Take a closer look. This is a land of intricate mountains and rivers, but the scenery is also strange and fresh, and the climate is significantly different from any other place in Ziwei World.Xi Zhenzi said calmly We were defeated after all. Is Jiang Daoyou showing off his cleverness Jiang Minyi suddenly stretched out her hand, gently touched Xi Zhenzi s cheek, then pinched it gently, and said Actually, the world of Ziwei is now Of the characters in the story, you are the most similar to me
He immediately turned to look at Mr. Li and said, Actually, he is becoming more courageous and clear minded as he gets frustrated.
Looking at this world from a distance, Gui Wujiu realized it and said This realm
Mo Na Ben Continent should also be considered a thing of the past.Fu Ningjin and Wu Xinling looked at each other, convinced.
After his fingers settled in the air, a trace of Qi condensed into a point the size of a grain of rice and fell into the baby s Dantian.Gui Wujiu nodded slightly. After thinking about it, Gui Wujiu suddenly smiled and said, Actually, I m not a collector.
That day, the Yuque tribe made a sudden attack, firing hundreds of cannons.However, the infinite diversity and brilliance are condensed into a complete meaning.
