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What can Tomb-Sweeping Day fold with gold paper besides gold ingots?

Besides gold ingots, Tomb-Sweeping Day can also fold lotus flowers with gold paper.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is the 108 day from winter to the future. This is a traditional festival in China, and it is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Influenced by the Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, such as Manchu, Hezhe, Zhuang, Tujia, Miao and Yao, also have the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Grave sweeping, ancestor worship and outing are the basic themes.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which is both a solar term and a festival. The formation of festival customs is closely related to the characteristics of solar terms at this time. Solar terms provide a prerequisite for the emergence of festivals. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms in China, which lasts from the winter to the108th day in the future, that is, around April 5th in the solar calendar.