I think this is an abandonment of tradition. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping originated in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, which refers to the ceremony of personally paying homage to ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day, three days after the festival and seven days before the festival.

In today's fast-paced business life, many people have found such a business opportunity. Some people are busy with work, others are busy traveling, so the agent grave-sweeping has quietly appeared. Indifference means contempt. Next, I will discuss from three aspects that Tomb-Sweeping Day's agent grave sweeping is a disregard for traditional culture.

First of all, in this special period of Tomb-Sweeping Day, sweeping graves has its special significance. The reason why Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival doesn't mean that we can't visit graves at ordinary times, and we can't express our grief and filial piety at ordinary times, but because it's time for us to worship our ancestors and visit graves. Confucius said: when you are born, when you die, when you are buried, and when you are sacrificed. It shows that Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day when a family should worship their ancestors, and no one else can do it for them. The memory of our ancestors is a specific emotion, which needs us to express it in a specific way of worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves. Admittedly, we will also encounter some helpless situations, just like the Qingming grave sweeping never requires everyone to be present. But a three-day holiday for a family doesn't mean that no one can come. You have to ask the agent. Tradition has low requirements for us. If you can't do this, isn't it a disregard for tradition?

Moreover, the ancients made a tradition, not criticizing us for kowtowing several times per hour every day, but benefiting from the rituals we personally participated in. Taking the younger generation to visit the grave is also an opportunity for the older generation to educate the younger generation to inherit culture. If we ask an agent to sweep the grave, we won't feel sorry or gain anything, and our younger generation won't understand the tradition of sweeping the grave on Qingming Day. Culture can't inherit and continue, isn't it a greater disregard for tradition?

Second, the agent's grave sweeping only satisfies the pursuit of material form. "There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." As a traditional festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping is not only a way for the living to express their grief and respect for the dead, but also a reflection of China's idea that the dead are great for thousands of years. "The world is full of benefits, and the world is full of benefits." Grave-sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day is a solemn and sacred sacrificial activity, but driven by interests, some people actually see such "business opportunities". It is not only a violation of traditional ideas, but also a blasphemy to the deceased. It can be described as "laughing to break the world record" to measure the transaction price by hiring people instead of relatives.

For some reasons, some people really can't go back to their hometown to sweep their graves. In order to show their memory, it is understandable to ask someone to clean the cemetery and put some flowers. However, if it is just for convenience, or for ostentation and extravagance, such as completing sacrifices, it loses the symbolic significance of sweeping graves, pays too much attention to material and form, and ignores the connotation of traditional culture and even tradition.

Third, the value aspect. Zhu, a famous philosopher in the Southern Song Dynasty, also said in The Analects of Confucius, "Those who are cautious to the end will lose their literary talent; Those who pursue the distance will sacrifice their sincerity. The virtue of the people is thick, which is called civilians, and its virtue is also thick. " Sacrificing ancestors lies in sincerity, and sincerity is spiritual. This is the best spiritual comfort to express the deceased.

At present, China is in a period of social and economic transformation. With the acceleration of people's life rhythm and the change of ideas, some behaviors that deviate from the norms occur from time to time. Tomb-Sweeping Day has been designated as a national holiday, which shows respect for folk customs and traditional culture of the motherland. We need to establish correct traditional moral concepts and ethical concepts for the behavior of "agent grave-sweeping", knowing that not all behaviors can be agent. Only in this way can the dead under the grave rest in peace.