Willows and willows follow the spring spirit, and it is the Tomb Sweeping Day of the year. This year is the 15th year that Qingming Festival has officially become a national legal holiday. Since ancient times, the Chinese people have the custom of sweeping tombs, offering sacrifices to ancestors and outings during the Qingming Festival. On this tomb sweeping day, despite the impact of the epidemic and other factors, people everywhere still cherish their ancestors, pay tribute to heroes and martyrs and visit the spring scenery in various forms on the premise of ensuring their own safety. Remember your loved ones and inherit the clean and upright family style in remembrance "You never leave", "forever miss", "may the awakened things bring my thoughts"... In the wechat group of he Yunfeng family, a villager of Heyuan village, shangjiangwei Town, Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, more than 20 messages have jumped out one after another to express my thoughts for my ancestors. Due to the epidemic situation, many people can't sweep their hometown during the Qingming Festival. Network sacrificial sweeping has become a new way of sacrificial sweeping that has attracted much attention. According to the data of the Ministry of civil affairs, on the first day of the Qingming Festival holiday alone, on more than 2000 online sweeping platforms across the country, the number of online sweeping people reached 6.95 million, an increase of 275.7% over the same period last year. In addition, people who visit cemeteries and cemeteries no longer hold firecrackers and paper money. Flowers have become a new choice for them to express their grief. In Kunming, Yunnan Province, 74 year old citizen Yang Qingyun and his wife bought 126 chrysanthemums to commemorate their relatives. Yang Qingyun told reporters that in the past, paper money was burned for sacrifice, with paper dust all over the sky and smoke choking the nose. From the year before last, they began to sweep with flowers, which is environmentally friendly and safe. "Compared with form, sacrifice and sweeping should pay more attention to the mind. No matter when, where and what form, when people miss their dead relatives in their hearts, it is the inheritance of family style and spirit." Xu Xiaoling, vice president of the school of life and culture of Beijing Vocational College of social management, said. Sacrifice to heroes and gather strength to move forward in memory Every time I think about the motherland, I remember the hero's iron armor cold. In the special day of Qingming Festival, many people choose to cherish the memory of martyrs and offer sacrifices to loyal souls. Pulling grass and adding soil... More than 2000 revolutionary martyrs who died in the blocking war in Yannan are sleeping in the wutiaoling martyrs cemetery in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. On the eve of the Tomb Sweeping Day, the villager Bian Hua and his son Bian Kangquan were busy adding soil to the martyrs' tombs. From grandfather Bian Derong to father Bian Hua to Bian Kangquan, the family has been here for more than 70 years. It has long been a deep-rooted tradition of the family to sweep the tombs of martyrs during the Qingming Festival every year. "Qingming Festival is a time to worship relatives. These heroes who shed their blood for our happy life today are our closest people. Their stories cannot be forgotten." Bian Kangquan said. This year's Tomb Sweeping Day, due to the impact of the epidemic and other factors, some martyrs' cemeteries were temporarily closed, and some martyrs' families were unable to visit the scene, but the martyrs were not alone. In Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which is located at the border, members of the volunteer service team composed of cadres and workers of the local bureau of Veterans Affairs and the martyrs' cemetery dressed in uniform, painted the martyrs' tombstone red, cleaned up fallen leaves and dead branches, presented flowers and bowed deeply. In Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, the staff of the local bureau of Veterans Affairs and the martyrs' cemetery contacted more than 30 martyrs' families in advance to understand their needs, and provided them with point-to-point help through video connection during the Qingming Festival. Different forms of sacrifice and the same expression of true feelings. This year's Qingming Festival, people will release their feelings of remembering the heroes in the "cloud". The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the propaganda center of the Ministry of veterans affairs jointly carried out the slow live broadcast commemoration of the theme of "Qingming Festival for heroes and martyrs" in 2022 on the 5th. In the 12 hour continuous slow live broadcast, netizens reposed their grief for the martyrs through message interaction and online flower donation, and expressed their respect for the martyrs, feelings and aspirations of inheritance. As of 14:00 on the 5th, the live broadcast has been watched by more than 27.81 million netizens. Cherish the memory of the heroic soul and draw the strength to move forward with emotion. "We should take the most shining coordinates of this nation as the direction, study hard and build our motherland." Zhang Yue, a senior one student of Jiangxi Fengcheng middle school, expressed the common aspiration of the broad masses in the message on the network sweeping platform. Spring outing to protect the cultural roots and explore the breath of spring With the sound of bells and drums, all stood in silence, and children dressed in national costumes sang the ode to the Yellow Emperor... On the morning of April 5, the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor memorial ceremony for the Tomb Sweeping Day in the year of renyin was held at the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum in Qiaoshan, Huangling County, Yan'an, Shaanxi Province. After presenting the flower basket and reading the sacrifice, all the participants bowed three times to the statue of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. Then the music and dance ceremony was also ancient and modern, beautiful and elegant. A 56 meter "giant dragon" rose into the air, reproducing the legend of "bridge mountain dragon riding". "I came to the mainland of China for development in 2006. From my first public sacrifice to today, I have witnessed the grand ceremony of Chinese people at home and abroad to jointly protect the national roots every year. I am very proud. At the same time, I also thank the state for issuing policies to provide a good entrepreneurial environment for our Taiwan compatriots." As a representative, Lin Zhengzhong, vice president of Xi'an Taiwan compatriots investment enterprise association, presented a flower basket at the ceremony. Live video broadcasting, online and offline linkage, and creating an online ancestor worship platform... In the "Chinese cloud ancestor worship" platform, Chinese descendants who cannot visit the scene in person can "travel" to the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum to virtually experience ancestor worship ceremonies such as lighting candles and offering flowers; Many netizens posted their position and blessing words in the comment area to express their feelings of being a child. Hold cultural activities to protect the roots of the nation, go on outings and explore the breath of spring. During the Qingming Festival, Beijing Municipal Parks launched 30 places for flower appreciation and outing. Watch the lovely early cherry blossoms in Yuyuantan Park; Feel the poetic and picturesque beauty of Magnolia blossoms in the summer palace, longevity hall, Yulan hall, Temple of Heaven Park, Zhai palace and other places; During the Qingming Festival, Beijing Municipal Parks strictly implemented epidemic prevention measures such as "limit, reservation and peak staggering". Visitors made online booking in advance, scientifically wore masks, visited the park at peak staggering, and stepped on the green to prevent epidemic. Not only in Beijing, but also in Bailuyuan film and Television City in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, tourists dressed in Hanfu enjoy flowers, taste tea, chant poetry and throw pots to feel the strong atmosphere of traditional culture; At the foot of Mingsha mountain in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, thousands of acres of apricot flowers are blooming, attracting many citizens and tourists. While strictly implementing the epidemic prevention and control measures, citizens and tourists go outing to find spring and get close to nature, which is not bad for the spring. (Xinhua News Agency)