What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It is not only a festival for people to pay homage to their ancestors and remember them, but also a link for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors. It is also a spring ceremony for hiking, getting close to nature and urging new students to care. Let's share the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day with you today. Let's have a look.

1, Qingtuanzi Qingtuanzi is the most representative food in Qingming Festival. Green and oily, waxy and soft, not sweet or greasy, with a faint but long grass fragrance, which is more fragrant and slippery when eaten in the mouth. This custom can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago. Because there is no fire during the Cold Food Festival, people will prepare many cakes in advance to satisfy their hunger. Green meatballs are filled with green wormwood and glutinous rice flour and then with bean paste, which can be preserved for 3~5 days, meeting the needs of people for sacrifice and eating without cooking. Up to now, the function of the Youth League as a sacrifice has gradually weakened, and more is to bring people an early adopter experience.

Eating prickly heat is a traditional custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Fried dumpling is a kind of fried pasta, with rice flour as the main ingredient, kneaded into thin strips and fried. Different shapes, or spiral, or grid-like, yellow and bright, crispy to eat, the more you chew, the more fragrant. Because the cold food festival banned fire, seeds were prepared in many places at that time, so that there was something to eat when the fire was banned. The cost of sowing is relatively low, and it is easy to store. The taste is crisp and deeply loved by the people, so it has been passed down to this day.

Step 3 insert willow

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the time when willows sprout and smoke is green. There are folk customs of folding willow, piercing willow and inserting willow. When people go out for an outing, they break off some wicker branches, which can be played with in their hands, woven into hats and worn on their heads, or taken home and inserted on the lintels and eaves. The custom of inserting willow is related to avoiding epidemic. The Tang people thought that wearing willow branches when offering sacrifices by the river could drive away the harm of poisonous insects. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, people often planted willows in front of their homes to avoid pests.

During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, and nature presents a vibrant scene everywhere, which is a good time to go for an outing. People in our country have always maintained the habit of going for an outing in Qingming. Legend has it that the Qingming outing began a long time ago. The intrinsic significance of Qingming outing is to conform to the seasonal solar terms. In spring and March, life began to flourish and everything sprouted. People go out to the wild and actively cater to the weather, thus promoting the circulation of yang in the body, which is of great benefit to health.

5. Grave-sweeping In the history of China, it was forbidden to eat cold food and worship ancestors by fire, and Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping has become a continuation of the custom and tradition. Even in today's society, before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people still have the custom of going to graves to pay homage to their ancestors: uprooting weeds, placing offerings, burning incense and praying in front of graves, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bunch of flowers to express their memory of their ancestors.

The above is my understanding of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs. What else do you know, my friend?