When Tomb-Sweeping Day first touched eggs, there was a custom.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in our country, one of the twenty-four solar terms, and also a very important festival of offering sacrifices, which is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. But Qingming is not only associated with sadness. In this spring season, hiking, swinging, flying kites and other customs also bring happiness to people. In terms of dietary customs, it varies from place to place. Apart from the familiar green dumplings and fruits, many places in China still have the custom of eating eggs. It is believed that Tomb-Sweeping Day will be in good health all year round if he eats an egg. There is also a saying that when sweeping the grave, the boiled eggs are broken on the tombstone and the eggshells are thrown on the grave, which symbolizes "shelling" and indicates the rebirth of life, hoping that future generations will get there first.

Tomb-Sweeping Day also has the custom of "touching eggs". On this day, children will touch and boil eggs. Whoever breaks the egg first loses. Nowadays, "touching eggs" is not common among children. However, this small "touching eggs" was not a custom in a poor place for a period of time. There is a clear written record that "touching eggs" can be traced back to the Six Dynasties. Liang Chaozong recorded in the Chronicle of Jingchu that there was a custom of "fighting chicken, carving chicken eggs and fighting chicken eggs" in Jingchu (now Huxiang) Cold Food Festival, and reprinted the sentence "This festival is especially full of fighting chicken eggs in the city" in Jade Candle Collection. Yuan Zhen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, also recorded this folk custom in his poem Cold Food Night. This year is not a cold food, but a secret swing. "It can be seen that" touching eggs "has a long history.

Rich families in ancient times paid attention to eating eggs with pictures. At that time, eggs were dyed blue and red and given to each other, or placed in plates and sacrificial vessels. Nowadays, children like to use colored strokes on boiled eggs, and eggs with colored coats have become arrogant.