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The moral of Qingming egg

Qingming egg means round and full.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's painting of eggs is a traditional custom in China. The original symbolic meaning of eggs is "spring-the beginning of a new life", and Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs symbolizes satiety. Paint the boiled eggs with bright colors, which are called "eggs". Children eating or playing "touching eggs" means good luck and health all the year round.

Flying kites is a festival custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Kite, also known as organ, paper kite, kite and paper kite, is a communication tool invented by ancient working people. Children draw spring into kites and draw various patterns on them. Colorful kites not only represent children's inner innocence, but also bring children hope for the future.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day's custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Although the custom of forbidding fire and eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day became a national folk custom only in the Song Dynasty, the custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history.

In addition to visiting graves, the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day has absorbed a series of folk sports activities in its historical development, such as swinging, cuju, polo and willow planting.

Cuju, also known as "kicking", "cuqiu", "kicking round", "catching the ball" and "kicking round". Kick means kick, kick, kick. Bow is a ball wrapped in skin and filled with rice bran. Therefore, "Cuju" refers to the activities that the ancients kicked, kicked and kicked with their feet, similar to today's football.