Tomb-Sweeping Day of the ancients also had festivals and comparisons, and travel was crowded.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming, and there is a custom of worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves in our country. Even though many people work and live in other places on weekdays, Tomb-Sweeping Day must go home to visit the grave. Coupled with the crowds traveling on holidays, traffic congestion is not uncommon everywhere. On the other hand, sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day has also become an opportunity for families in some areas to show their strength and compare with each other, and even caused some negative effects. So in ancient times, did the ancients sweep graves in a similar way? Actually, there is. Let the old almanac introduce it to you.

According to "Tang Yao Hui", there was a complaint that "four days of cold food, the Qingming Festival is all false" during the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. The four-day holiday is not short, but with the passage of time, the holiday time is still extending. During the Yuanhe period in Tang Xianzong, it was even announced that "Tomb-Sweeping Day Cold Food Festival will have a seven-day holiday", and the Cold Food Festival was completely connected with Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the official also made it clear that there would be a seven-day holiday.

However, the Qingming holiday has also caused many problems. Similar to the comparison between modern grave-sweeping and funeral, people in the Tang Dynasty also had this mentality, except that they were fighting for other things, rather than burning something for the dead or how to hold a funeral.

During the Qingming period in the Tang Dynasty, we also attached great importance to the tradition of banning fire from cold food. Because boiled eggs are nutritious and easy to eat cold, eggs have become a "holiday" general food. At the same time, the Tang dynasty also inherited the custom of carving eggs and fighting eggs from the previous generation, and developed vigorously.

The so-called "carving chicken" means carving eggs into various patterns and making exquisite craft food. Every cold food and Tomb-Sweeping Day, people give each other carved eggs to show the festival. Derived from this, people often compared carved eggs with each other at that time, which was very competitive. This is called "fighting eggs".

Perhaps it is because the people are becoming more and more extravagant and competitive. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty also issued a testament forbidding people to feed each other eggs during the Cold Food Festival, so that the people can manage their families diligently every day.

In addition to eating and drinking, the ancients also encountered traffic problems when sweeping graves or having an outing.

Song dynasty inherited the Tang system, and Qingming still has seven days' holiday. During this period, people who went to the suburbs to sweep graves blocked the city gates, and countless tourists went hiking. Therefore, there are historical records, every time in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people who go out to sweep graves, "cars and horses come and go, full of doors"; There are also many people who travel. "The roads in the fields are full of ladies."

"Dream of Liang Lu" even records that "no matter rich or poor, the whole city is out, singing loudly and advocating the sky." There are so many tourists that it seems that the whole city has gone out for an outing. There is also such a record in the poem "Opening the West Garden" in the Song Dynasty, "The tourists outside the threshold are full, and the forest drinks fresh. Many voices are mixed together, and the rest of the scene is even more lingering. The guests are not drunk, and Fang Fei is another year. " It can be seen that many people want a drink while playing.

From today's point of view, Tomb-Sweeping Day in the Tang and Song Dynasties is one of the most important festivals of the year. Besides remembering our ancestors, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival where the living enjoy their holiday life. We can also see the significance of the festival carnival of the ancients, and even many practical problems that people encounter today, such as comparing festivals and traffic jams, have been encountered by the ancients.