The Origin and Historical Development of Eating Eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day

There are many dietary customs about the twenty-four solar terms-"Tomb-Sweeping Day". For example, people must eat delicious food and clear fruits during their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day. So do you know the origin and historical development of eating eggs in Qingming Festival? Next, I will answer your questions with Huang Li. Let's have a look!

In Shandong, there is a custom of cold cooking boiled eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. Early in the morning, Tomb-Sweeping Day filled a pot, washed it with cold water, mixed five colors, painted colorful eggs, and then put them into egg bags and egg nets woven with thread for the children to take to grandma's house. Grandma's family has left eggs for her nephew. What I have in my hand and pocket are eggs. At school, children play the game of "breaking eggs". Eggs collide with each other to see whose eggs are hard, and the person who breaks them loses. Students also have the custom of sending eggs to their teachers on this day. A student sends an egg, and the teacher has dozens of eggs. In boarding schools, when Qingming can't go home, the teacher will cook hundreds of eggs and one student will eat two ... Why do eggs become a necessary cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day? Local people have the saying "eat eggs to avoid hail disaster" and "hail without eating eggs".

On the surface, this popular belief is the result of folk analogy thinking: cold eggs are like cold hail, and eating cold eggs means eliminating hail disasters. In fact, its implication is far-reaching and extensive.

The historical development of people who eat cold food through smoking bans.

"Nakano" said that three days before Tomb-Sweeping Day, dry porridge, or kway teow, began to be made in Bingzhou area.

In Yunxian Miscellanies, it is said that Luoyang people eat cold food with flowers and make Huayang porridge.

"Nianwei" said that porridge and chicken are recommended for cold food in Chang 'an.

"Dream of China in Tokyo" said that singers and dancers in Beijing visited the garden pavilions at dusk, each carrying jujube cakes to cook cakes, yellow fat knives, famous flowers and different fruit pavilions, and chickens and ducks were called outside the door.

"When I was young, when I was young," said the court sent a courtier to pay for the original temple in Zhu Ling and suggested using thick wheat cakes; Others usually use jujube cakes and fermented beans at funerals.

"Eight Records of Zunsheng" says that boiled glutinous rice and wheat into cheese, mashed almonds into porridge, and steamed with jujube, which is called jujube cake; Dye rice with Pittosporum leaves and Hollyleaf, the color is blue and bright, and the food is purple, which Taoism calls green and capable rice eating; Nowadays, people are used to making green rice balls with wheat, grass, mashed juice and glutinous rice, and dyeing with Chinese tallow leaves and black rice to make cakes.

Cold food affects the stomach and is a burden to the old, the weak and the sick. The disadvantages of this custom should be eliminated. However, due to the rich content of folk culture, it is not easy to change customs.

According to the biography of Zhou Ju, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiexiu's hometown competed for cold food in January.

By the time of Wei, Cao Cao had

However, the custom of cold food has not been abolished because of its disadvantages. People will use natural and man-made disasters to compete with the people. According to the Book of Jin, there was a heavy hail in Xerox. The area around Xihe and Jieshan was as big as an egg, with a flat land of three feet and a depression of more than ten feet. There are thousands of pedestrians, animals and the dead. From Taiyuan to Julu, a large area of trees were destroyed and crops were razed to the ground. Schleswig asked Minister Guangxu. Guangxu said: "Such natural disasters have occurred from time to time, but the wise Lord should make corresponding changes to respect the wrath of heaven and appease the people."

Cold food was banned last year. Jiezitui is the god of the emperor's hometown. It has been respected by generations and may not be replaced. People sigh that Wang Dao is still suffering from it, not to mention those gods who regret it and are not angry with themselves! Although we can't make the world conform to its customs, Jieshan is surrounded by Jin Wengong and should be served by the people. "So schleswig-holstein ordered, restore cold food. It is for this reason that people still think that there will be hail without cold food.

Here, we find the historical root of "eating eggs to avoid hail disaster" in Shandong-according to Fang Zhizai, most Shandong people migrated from Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty.

Cold food has also been reduced from one month to seven days and three days a day, and today it is integrated with Qingming. People no longer have the psychological pressure of cold food, but are replaced by the joy of sunny weather, birds and flowers. The young generation's consciousness of "eating eggs to eliminate hail disaster" is no longer so obvious, but replaced by colorful life interests and harmonious human feelings and family ties among children, teachers and students, relatives and friends.