1、Tombsweeping Day Tombsweeping Day Tombsweep Day 清明清明节Content1.Brief introduction2.CustomCustom n.习惯，习俗 The Qingming Festival is one of the 24 seasonal division points in China,falling on April 4-6 each year.After the festival,the temperature will rise up and rainfall increases.It is the high time fo
2、r spring plowing and sowing.But the Qingming Festival is not only a seasonal point to guide farm work,it is more a festival of commemorationseasonal division points 节气temperature n.温度rise up 上升;耸立rainfall increases 降水增加high time 正是时候Commemoration n.纪念Tombsweeping Day is an ancient festival in spring
3、also called Qing Ming Festival.Qing Ming is a time to remember the dead and the dearly departed.More important,it is a period to honour and to pay respect to ones deceased ancestors and family members.Qing Ming is a major Chinese festival.ancient adj.古代的departed adj.去世的period n.时期honour n.尊重decease
4、d ancestor 已故的祖先major adj.重要的On each Qingming Festival,all cemeteries are crowded with people who came to sweep tombs and offer sacrifices.Traffic on the way to the cemeteries becomes extremely jammed.The customs have been greatly simplified today.After slightly sweeping the tombs,people offer food,
5、flowers and favorites of the dead,then burn incense and paper money and bow before the memorial tablet.cemetery n.墓地offer sacrifices 祭祀extremely adv.非常Jammed adj.堵塞Simplify v.简化burn incense 焚香Memorial tablet 牌位Tomb-sweeping day Tomb-sweeping day customcustomA Time to Taste Tea 品茶Spring Outing 踏青Flying Kites 放风筝Tomb Sweeping or Ancestor Worshipping 扫墓祭祖
