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Chinese Festival Culture Series-The Tomb-Sweeping Day [PDF ebook]

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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. CONTENTSOrigin Dissemination Customs Distinctive Festive Places The book includes illustrations, tables and graphics.

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Format PDF ● Pages 175 ● ISBN 9781844644377 ● Publisher Paths International ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4844474 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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