How do overseas Chinese live in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Think twice about your relatives during festivals, especially overseas Chinese. Recently, many Italian overseas Chinese chose to return to China to pay homage to their deceased relatives during their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, which has been handed down by overseas Chinese.

Indonesian Chinese

The Qingming Festival is passed down from generation to generation.

Chinese living in Indonesia have been continuing the custom of ancestor worship and grave sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day. ? Zhu Dexiao first? In the values of China society, filial piety? First of all, sweeping graves to worship ancestors is a sign of filial piety.

A week before Tomb-Sweeping Day, Indonesian Chinese began to buy paper money, candles, flower baskets and modern sacrifices, such as? Gold bars? 、? Cell phone? Wait a minute. People who go to other places to sweep graves have already booked air tickets and boat tickets in advance. Indonesian Chinese think Tomb-Sweeping Day is very meaningful. During this period, it is not only a time to sweep the graves to worship ancestors, but also a time for brothers and sisters to reunite. Tomb-Sweeping Day customs should be handed down from generation to generation, especially in modern society.

A few years ago, most people in China worshipped their ancestors in the ancestral hall of Baijia surname. As each surname has its own ancestral temple, people gather in the hall to worship their ancestors. Clan relatives usually have lunch after ancestor worship and are friendly to each other. Some also take this opportunity to award scholarships to the children of clansmen who have studied well, which embodies the traditional virtues of China people, such as being cautious in pursuing the future, remembering the merits of their ancestors, and encouraging their younger generations to study hard and make great efforts. During my stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, teachers and students gathered in some places to deepen friendship. More families in China go to cemeteries to sweep graves, or go to temples to burn incense and pray.

Singaporean Chinese

Will you go back to your hometown in Qingming?

Wherever China people go, they always carry the tradition of China. Every weekend from late March to early April, there are endless roads leading to cemeteries, urn shelters and temples in the suburbs of Singapore. Chelong? And the bustling crowd. Like Chinese descendants in other parts of the world, Singaporean Chinese will never forget to pay homage to their ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Remembering our ancestors, pursuing the future with caution? .

Chinese Singaporeans still follow traditional rituals to sweep graves. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Chinese Singaporeans will travel with their families, put wine, food, fruits and flowers on the graves of their relatives, light incense sticks, burn paper money, kowtow, and finally eat wine and food and go home.

Returning to China to search for ancestors and worship ancestors is an upward trend of Chinese in Singapore in the past 20 years. Before Tomb-Sweeping Day, Chinese Singaporeans often greeted each other in their hometown dialect when they met. Will Qingming go back to his hometown? There is only one reason to go back to China ancestral home to visit the grave: you can't forget your ancestors.

Some people in China say they can't accept fashionable things? Online worship? Tao, if conditions permit, you must kowtow to the graves of your ancestors in person. Even young Singaporean Chinese educated in the West dare not ignore Tomb-Sweeping Day, because ancestor worship and ancestor worship are China traditions that have been circulating for thousands of years.

Chinese American

Be clear in different ways.

During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Chinese History Society of Southern California held an annual event to commemorate Chinese ancestors, calling on Chinese people not to forget their contributions in opening up territory in California. In new york, one of the largest gathering places of Chinese in the United States, on the hillside where Chinese tombs are concentrated in Baishan Cemetery, Brooklyn, we can see the newly placed fruit tributes in front of the tombstones washed clean by the drizzle and all kinds of flowers swaying gently in the wind. The local people in China hold the annual commemoration of Tomb-Sweeping Day in different ways.

The different experiences of Chinese in new york determine their different ways of offering sacrifices to sweep in Tomb-Sweeping Day. On this day, many traditional overseas Chinese delegations have published advertisements for the Spring Festival in newspapers and posted notices in clubs to organize members to pay homage to the graves where their ancestors were buried. Grave-sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day has become a social occasion for China people to connect their feelings and increase their contacts. After the 1970s, new immigrants in the United States often expressed their thoughts about their ancestors to their relatives and friends in their old countries by letters and telephone calls.

Although Chinese Americans are far away from their homeland, many people believe that while accepting the mainstream American social culture, we should not forget the traditional festivals in China. Yan Fang, a Chinese, pointed out that commemorating the traditional festivals in China will help to promote the virtues of the Chinese nation and enhance the exchange and unity of overseas Chinese.