What is the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day's "Qi Nan Bei"?

The customs in the north and south of Tomb-Sweeping Day are: sweeping graves to worship ancestors, swinging, hiking, flying kites, steaming Artemisia cakes, swinging, inserting willows, marking graves, hiking, eating green dumplings, eating dumplings and so on. Among them, when sweeping graves to worship ancestors, people should bring wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, burn the paper money, cultivate the soil for the graves, break some willow branches and put them in front of the graves, then kowtow to worship, and finally eat wine or pack up the offerings and go home.

Grave-sweeping: On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household sticks willows at the door, hangs willows under the eaves, sticks willows on women's heads, sticks willows on men's bodies, blows willows on children's pipes, and hangs paper money on graves, indicating that epidemic ghosts can be eliminated.

Go for an outing: Qingming Festival is a good time for people to travel in spring. Ancestor worship activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day are often held in the suburbs. People combine ancestor worship with outing to remember their ancestors and keep healthy. Therefore, outing has become one of the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Flying kites: Flying kites is the most popular activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people not only released them during the day, but also released them at night. At night, strings of colorful lanterns are hung under kites or on wind-stable stay wires, which are called "magic lanterns" like twinkling stars. Someone used to put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to yourself.