Knowledge about Qingming

The knowledge about Qingming includes Tomb-Sweeping Day customs, Tomb-Sweeping Day is the only solar term with festivals, Tomb-Sweeping Day belongs to intangible cultural heritage, and tea before Qingming refers to tea picked before Qingming.

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day custom:

Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship are the main activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In our Hubei area, Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of "hanging paper". For Jingzhou people, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called "inserting green flowers". People cut out stripes with colored paper, and then hung them on one end of bamboo sticks, making them "Qingming Hanging" and inserting them in front of ancestors' graves. But besides remembering ancestors, Qingming has many other customs.

Flying kites: In ancient China, flying kites was not only a recreational activity, but also people thought that flying kites could make their bad luck disappear.

Eat Green jiaozi: Green jiaozi is made by mashing a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw", squeezing out juice, and mixing the juice with dry glutinous rice flour.

Go for a spring outing: "ice on the river eliminates grass on the shore, and go for an outing in 3355." At the same time, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also a moment full of vitality. People bid farewell to dormant home life and go out for an outing in the bright sunshine in spring.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the only solar term with festivals.

There are 24 solar terms in China, but among all the solar terms, only Tomb-Sweeping Day belongs to both festivals and solar terms.

As a solar term, Qingming is not a fixed day. This is a rough time frame. Generally speaking, 108 from winter to the future is Qingming, that is, around April 5. But as a festival, Qingming is fixed on April 5 every year.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day belongs to intangible cultural heritage.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not an ordinary festival. In 2006, China listed it as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Tomorrow tea refers to the tea picked before Qingming.

People often hear "Longjing tea before the Ming Dynasty" in TV series, but it does not refer to a simple kind of tea, but refers to the tea picked before and after the Qingming Festival. Pre-harvested tea in Tomb-Sweeping Day has less pests, less pesticide pollution and the best quality, which is deeply loved by tea lovers. Enshi Yulu, known as the "No.1 Tea in Hubei", has also been upgraded before tomorrow. Tea lovers can hurry up and start "installing"!