The legend of Tomb-Sweeping Day is very short.

1. Commemoration and gratitude for historical figures who have made contributions.

1. Why don't Manchu people move fireworks at the Cold Food Festival? This is in memory of Mrs. Moss who saved her ancestor Wang Han.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day, people in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Hua Meng City planted willows to thank Liu Qing, a native of Hua Meng, for saving people in from the mire under the poison of officers and men.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day, a Yao woman in Jinping County, Yunnan Province, put flowers on her head to thank the snake for fighting with the thief, saving her master and making a heroic sacrifice.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day in Suzhou and Changshu of Jiangsu likes to eat steamed cakes, which originated from Zhang Shicheng, the rebel leader in Jiangsu and Zhejiang at the end of Yuan Dynasty, to thank the old man for saving his mother with bread.

5. During the Qingming Festival, farmers in Zhujiage, Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, not only put food and wine in the hall to worship their ancestors, but also put a table of food and wine and 18 sets of chopsticks in the corridor outside the hall to worship 18 "ancestors outside the hall" in memory of the 18 Taiping Heavenly Warriors who brought benefits to Zhujiage.

Second, praise cleverness and wit.

Some legends about Tomb-Sweeping Day's dietary customs reflect people's praise for cleverness and wit.

1 For example, the emergence of the Youth League is that the parties skillfully used the dirty characteristics of the Youth League, thus successfully breaking through the predicament caused by reality and realizing their wishes.

2. For example, there is a legend that someone made food into green balls and successfully escaped the interrogation of officers and soldiers and saved Taiping Chen, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

A legend says that when Meng Jiangnv went to the Great Wall to offer sacrifices to her husband, the food she brought was always confiscated by the officers and men guarding the customs. Later, inspired by an accident, she got green leaves, squeezed out juice, and mixed them with white rice flour to make a green jiaozi. So she successfully escaped the investigation of officers and men and sacrificed her husband with delicious food.

4. The origin of Hakka Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating mourning is related to Chen Baisha, a thinker in Ming Dynasty. Chen Baisha also took advantage of the characteristics of "cow dung" of Ai Ai, swallowed it with a big mouth, and pretended to be crazy and sold stupidly, successfully getting rid of the surprise attack by officers and men.

Third, the promotion of filial piety.

Filial piety is a virtue. Some folklore advocates this virtue.

1 For example, the widely circulated legends about the origin of green paper-cutting and paper pressing in Tomb-Sweeping Day mostly associate the invention of the custom of green paper-cutting and paper pressing with Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

2. In Huaining, Anhui Province, people associate the invention of the custom of "wearing a black hat" on the grave (that is, when trimming the ancestral grave, two lawns are stacked on the grave, which are similar to black hats and paper labels are pressed on them) with Liu Ruozai, a famous figure in the Ming Dynasty. These customs are all the ways they came up with after they developed to find their parents' graves in front of them.

Fourth, the worship of love

The father of "Silkworm Flower Girl" was besieged by the enemy. She made a decision that if someone could save her father, she would give her life. As a result, a white horse came back carrying her father. "Silkworm Flower Girl" decided to marry a white horse. Father refused and killed the white horse. "Silkworm flower girl" died of double suicide.

People buried her with the white horse. The next year, mulberry trees grew on the grave, and there was a small silkworm on it. Silkworms grow quickly after eating mulberry leaves. Since then, every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people have held a "silkworm flower rolling" activity, remembering the silkworm flower girl, praying for "all's well that ends well" and hoping that silkworm affairs will flourish.

As a part of Japanese culture in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Japanese legends in Tomb-Sweeping Day are "social narratives", which are often attached to Tomb-Sweeping Day and told year after year through Tomb-Sweeping Day. These legends are the collective memory of a certain historical event and a certain historical figure by a certain nation or local society, and they are an important embodiment of people's historical consciousness, and also contain people's aesthetic ideals and values.

On the one hand, they satisfy people's curiosity about the origin of customs; On the other hand, they convey the core values of China people, such as advocating gratitude, kindness, filial piety and wit, and criticizing ingratitude, which plays an important role in educating people in a subtle way.