Weekly Cantonese: cing1 ming4 zit3 每週廣東話：清明節

Tomb-sweeping Day -Fun Facts:
Swinging on Tomb-sweeping Day ?!

清 clear cing1
明 bright ming4
節 festival zit3

盪 swing(v.) dong6
韆鞦 swing (n.) cin1 cau1

Today is Tomb-sweeping Day, it is a day for Cantonese-speaking communities to remember their ancestors. In addition to visit the tombs of ancestors on this day, some people used to go swing.

The swings has always been a very popular leisure activity. Back in the days, people would take the opportunity of Tomb-sweeping Day to swing the most out of it.

In addition, the reason why it is done for thousands of years is that in traditional customs, swinging can drive away all kinds of diseases and pains, and the higher you go, the better people's life can be. It also forms a period of time close to the Tomb-sweeping Day, when family’s will come out and swing!

清明節冷知識：清明節要盪韆鞦?!

今日係清明節，喺粵語使用者社會，呢一日係一個懷念先人嘅節日，大家除咗去掃墓，原來有人會去盪韆鞦？

盪韆鞦喺古代係一個好受歡迎嘅休閑活動。古代人都會趁清明節呢個機會去盪韆鞦。盪韆鞦之所以會咁收歡迎，係由於傳統習俗中，相傳盪韆鞦有效將各種病痛驅走，而且盪得愈高，就代表人嘅生活過得愈美好。

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