What does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat in the north?

Tomb-Sweeping Day in the north eats delicacies such as Qingming snails, flour flowers, cool sorghum rice, steamed dumplings, jujube cakes, ink eggs and cool cakes.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs vary from place to place in China. Although the festival activities vary from place to place, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and going out for an outing are the same basic custom theme.

In addition to visiting graves, the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day has absorbed a series of folk sports activities in its historical development, such as swinging, cuju, polo and willow planting.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, which means "grave-sweeping sacrifice", is a "respect for time and thought" for ancestors. After the sacrificial ceremony is completed, the sacrificial food will be shared.

1935, the government of the Republic of China designated April 5th as a national holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day. On February 7, 2007, the 1 98th executive meeting of the State Council adopted a decision on amending the National Festival and Memorial Day, stipulating that "Tomb-Sweeping Day will have a holiday1day.