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How much do you know about the custom of Cold Food Festival?

I know there are many customs in the Cold Food Festival, and every place has different customs. For example:

1, eating customs

The food of the Cold Food Festival includes: cold porridge, cold noodles, cold paste, green japonica rice and so on. Cold food festival offerings: noodles, snakes and rabbits. Drinks include: spring wine I, fresh tea, clear spring, sweet water, etc. Most of these are used to worship rabbits, expressing the expectation of the country's prosperity.

2. The custom of inserting willows

The symbolic thing of vitamin cold food festival is to miss the political clarity pursued by meson tui. There is also a folk saying that "a beautiful woman becomes a bald head without wearing a willow at Qingming Festival".

3, outing customs

Cold food festival, also called spring outing, began in Tang and Song Dynasties. "Scenery of the Imperial Capital" recorded the scene of hiking: during the Qingming Festival, people went hiking, and there were tens of thousands of tourists, riders, pedestrians and tourists.

4. Poetry custom

During the Cold Food Festival, literati either miss their loved ones, or borrow scenery to express their feelings, or are full of fun and poetry. Judging from the whole Tang poetry, Tang Xuanzong, Du Fu, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and other celebrities all wrote poems about the Cold Food Festival, which enriched the life and entertainment of literati.

5. Worship the custom of sweeping graves

The Cold Food Festival was regarded as a "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty. Families go to ancestral graves, offer sacrifices, add soil and hang paper money. Then they scattered swallows and snakes and rabbits on the top of the grave, rolled them down, put them on with willow branches or zits, and put them high in the house, which means they are stained with the virtue of their ancestors.