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清明，这些习俗你知道吗？ 中国日报网双语新闻 2015-04-05 · 分享 清明节是人们悼念逝者、缅怀先人、寄托思念的传统节日。基于上述意义，清明节已成为华人的重要节日。关于清明，您了解多少呢？ [扫墓] At the Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day), people usually worship their ancestors by burning incense and paper money at their ancestors grave sites. People show respect to their ancestors by visiting their graves, and offering food, wine, flower, etc. They sweep the tombs, removing weeds, and adding fresh soil to the graves, stick willow branches on the tomb, and burn paper money. They pray before their ancestors graves and beseech them to bless their families. However, the custom has been greatly simplified today, especially in cities, where only flowers are presented to the dead. 清明节，人们通常在祖宗坟前焚香烧纸，拜祭祖先。人们来到祖先坟前，供上食物、酒水、鲜花等，以示敬意。他们扫墓、除草、添土，在墓上插柳并焚烧纸钱。他们在祖先坟前祷告，请求他们保佑家人。但是，如今的习俗已大大简化，特别是在城里，他们只向逝者献花。 [插柳] During Qingming Festival, people wear soft willow branches and place the branches on gates. Willows are considered magical, and people believe that this custom will ward away wandering evil spirits during Qingming. Traditional pictures of the Goddess of Mercy Guanyin often show her seated on a lotus flower with a willow branch in a vase in her hand. 清明节期间，人们会佩带软的柳枝，并将柳枝插在门上。人们认为柳枝具有神力，这种风俗能在清明期间辟邪。观音菩萨的传统形象通常就是坐在莲花上，拿着插柳枝的花瓶。 [踏青] Qingming is also called Taqing Festival. Taqing means a spring outing, when people get out and enjoy the spring blossoms. The festival usually falls on a day not long before everything turns green in the north, and well into the spring flower season in the south. It marks the beginning of the season when people spend more time outside as the weather warms up. 清明节又叫踏青节。踏青意思是春游，人们外出欣赏春天欣欣向荣的景象。清明节通常是在北方万物变绿前不久的一天，恰逢南方春暖花开的时候。清明标志着随着天气变暖，人们外出时间增多的季节开始了。 [放风筝] It is traditional for people to fly kites during the Qingming holiday, no matter in the daytime or at night. In the evening, they attach strings of little colorful lanterns to the kite or the thread, which look like twinkling stars in the sky, giving them the name sacred lantern.