The purpose I posting this topic was just to let you guys understanding the exact meaning of these events so that we can learn our culture more deeply. Before I show the suggestion to you guys, I will explain these two terms. QingMing is a Chinese culture which have been practice for at least 1000 years ago and it is an event to show respect and memorize our ancestor by having several kind of activities such as have a tour, pray your ancestor graveyard, swinging, playing football, playing kite and planting trees.
However, most of the Chinese others than China region only practice to pray their ancestors or planting trees during this event and China is the only country whose placed QingMing as the public holidays and this holiday lasts for three days. Apart from that, no matter how many dynasties have been replaced, this event is continuously been practice by the dynasties government. This shows the importance of this event to all Chinese. Thus, as a real Chinese we must practice this tradition even though we might have different religious.
What is JiHuangDi actually? JiHuangDi is the event for memorizing our Chinese ancestor, HuangDi(黄帝) whose believe to be the origin of Chinese. We, Chinese believe that HuangDi is the leader whose brought Chinese from the barbarian age to a civilize age and united the nation of Chinese. He used jade to made weapons and create carts, boats, bows and arrows and his historian CangJie(仓颉) is the one whose create chinese texts. To shows our respect towards this amazing leader, we Chinese each year will celebrate his birthday and this tradition continuously being practice by all the dynasties government. Moreover, China government had organized this event on 5th April 2011 and it has attracted million of Chinese all around the world to gathered at China, ShanXi(陕西).
By looking deeply into these events, we can conclude that these two events are quite important to all Chinese. Thus, we must try to practicing this culture so that our culture can be passed to our children. However, this culture do meet with a little bit of conflict when it faced with the people whose practicing different religions. In order to solve this conflict, I would suggest some solution for you guys. For those whose are non-Buddhists or Taoists, you no need to pray your ancestor the same ways as the Buddhists or Taoists. You just need to clean up your ancestor graveyard and put some flowers in front of your ancestor graveyard. In addition, you can planting trees nearby to your ancestor cemetery too. Lastly, you must try to understand history of your ancestor so that you can appreciate whatever property or history that your ancestor have leaved for you guys.
Okay, that's all I wanna share for today. By the way, I am not a Christian but I do respect to every religion. Thanks for your precious time and wishing you guys have nice day. Please stay tuned for my next post.
