每年的清明节，按习俗我们应该给去逝世的亲长扫墓。今年的清明节晴朗，由于爸爸妈妈有事不在家，只能由奶奶带着哥哥和我一块去扫墓。
On the Qingming Festival every year, according to the custom, we should visit the tomb of the deceased head of the family. This year's Qingming Festival is sunny. Because mom and dad are not at home, grandma can only take my brother and I to the grave.
因为我是第一次去，所以感到很陌生，也很兴奋。坐着的士很快就到了墓地，想不到这里人真不少，有拿着清明吊的(传统的)，有拿着鲜花环的(西洋化的)，真是中西结合。走过一个个墓地，很快来到一个大大的圆型群墓前。奶奶告诉我，这就是我们家的姥爷爷，姥奶奶还有其他长辈的公墓了。我走过去，认真的打量起来。最前方竖着一块高约70厘米，宽为40厘米的墓碑，上面刻着许多的了，有很多好像是繁体的，我还不大认识，但不一会儿，我就在碑的左下角看到了自己的名字，嘿嘿。我跑过去问奶奶，为什么这上面会有我的名字，奶奶告诉我说，我看到的那些都是立碑人的名字,刻上名字表示对死去亲人的记念。
Because it's my first time, I feel strange and excited. Sitting in a taxi, I soon arrived at the cemetery. Unexpectedly, there are many people here, some with Qingming crane (traditional), some with flower rings (westernized). It's really a combination of Chinese and western. After walking through graveyards, I came to a large round tomb. Grandma told me that this is our grandfather, grandma and other elders' cemeteries. I walked over and looked at it carefully. At the front is a tombstone about 70cm high and 40cm wide. There are many carved on it. Many of them seem to be traditional. I don't know much about them, but soon I saw my name in the lower left corner of the tombstone, hehe. I ran to grandma and asked her why there was my name on it. Grandma told me that those I saw were the names of the people who built the monument, and engraved them with names to remember their dead relatives.
接着奶奶带着我们开始为扫墓做准备。她叫我和哥哥把买来的冥钱分好，我一看，啊，好大的票面，一亿，十亿，百亿，我说：“我们怎么有这么多的钱啊?”奶奶笑着说，这是冥币，十块钱可以买好多好多，烧给去世的人用的，让他们那个极乐世界不会缺钱花。我跟哥哥在烧着冥币，奶奶在一边拿出香来点燃，嘴里念念有词，因为隔得远，没听清楚，只隐约听到什么保佑孩子们健健康康，学习进步什么的。接着奶奶让我跟哥哥在墓碑前跪下，给去世的老人们磕头。
Then grandma took us to prepare for the tomb sweeping. She asked my brother and I to divide the money. When I saw it, ah, it was a huge bill, one hundred million, one billion, ten billion. I said, "how can we have so much money?" grandma said with a smile, this is the money. Ten yuan can buy a lot of money and burn it to the dead, so that their paradise won't be short of money. My brother and I are burning the Styx. Grandma takes out the incense to light it. She has words in her mouth. Because we are so far away from each other, we can't hear clearly. We can only vaguely hear what can protect children's health and progress. Then grandma asked me and my brother to kneel in front of the tombstone and kowtow to the dead old people.
仪式到这里差不多快结束，临走的时候，还要燃放鞭炮，听奶奶说这好像是为了告诉他们，他们的子孙来看望过他们，没有忘记他们的意思吧!
The ceremony is almost over here. When we leave, we still need to set off firecrackers. It seems to tell them that their grandchildren have come to visit them and have not forgotten what they mean!
回去的路上，我依然看到很多车，很多人，还有人在往墓地赶来。晚上回到家里，我问妈妈，为什么清明节我们要去扫墓?妈妈告诉我清明节这天去祭祖扫墓，是为了借以缅怀祖先的业迹，表达自己对先人的怀念之情。哦，我大约有点明白了。同学们，你们的清明节又是如何度过的呢?
On the way back, I still saw a lot of cars, people and people coming to the cemetery. When I came back home in the evening, I asked my mother why we went to the tomb sweeping on Qingming Day. My mother told me that the purpose of going to the tomb sweeping ceremony on Qingming Day was to remember the deeds of our ancestors and express his nostalgia for our ancestors. Oh, I think I understand a little bit. Students, how did you spend your Qingming Festival?