Chinese Festival Culture Series-The Tomb-Sweeping Day PDF
by Li Song
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The Tomb-Sweeping Day is the festival commemorating ancestors and making sacrifices to gods and saints.
This book introduces the origin, inheritance, traditions and varied forms of the Tomb-Sweeping Day.The Tomb-Sweeping Day is to show respect to ancestors and gods and saints worshipped from generation to generation so it deserves to be highlighted and enjoy the same status of importance with the Spring Festival in China.
The Tomb-Sweeping Day is seen as a significant component of Confucianism to show the filialness and loyalty of Chinese people.
Many folk tales and legends of sagacious heroes are the prototype of sacred ceremonies during the Tomb-Sweeping Day and they are vividly narrated in this book.
CONTENTSOriginDisseminationCustomsDistinctive Festive PlacesThe book includes illustrations, tables and graphics.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:175 pages
- Publisher:Paths International
- Publication Date:28/02/2015
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- ISBN:9781844644377
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:175 pages
- Publisher:Paths International
- Publication Date:28/02/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844644377