What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Do you know any customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day? The following small series will answer your question.

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What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Is there any special food in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Where does Tomb-Sweeping Day go to play in Luoyang?

What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

"Food is the most important thing for the people", and Qingming ancestor worship is no exception. Grave-sweeping and ancestor-worshipping, don't change the red tape, go home and make good food, which is delicious. Through activities such as burning pigs, making fish balls and picking Qingming tea, it has been passed down for thousands of years. The feelings of clan families are also condensed in these activities. It is not sad to celebrate the festival with the memory and respect for our ancestors, with great excitement and clarity.

In Dongguan, sweeping graves on Qingming Festival is called "worshipping mountains", also called "hanging paper". As the saying goes, "everyone has a piece of pork that is too big." Dongguan people usually prepare roast pigs, wine and rice, and offer sacrifices to the mountains and ancestors. However, the food in different towns is slightly different. For example, Fenggang collects green tea, which tastes very sweet. There is glutinous rice boiled maple leaf in Dongcheng, which is shared by the whole family. Gao _ has fish balls to worship ancestors and so on. When it comes to sacrifices, Tomb-Sweeping Day pays attention to apples, sugar cane and suckling pigs.

Hakka people have different opinions about Tomb-Sweeping Day eating Ai _, but in Fenggang, Dongguan, it is said that eating Ai _ is not afraid of being struck by lightning, because there are many thunderstorms in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Some people say that children will be more obedient if they eat Ai _.

"Be cautious and pursue the distance, and the people's morality is thick." The reason why an ancient festival is enduring is that it bears the feelings accumulated from generation to generation in China and permeates the spiritual blood and cultural genes on which the Chinese nation depends for survival and reproduction. Paying homage to martyrs, heroes and dead compatriots will awaken people's endless affection for the country and compatriots, and will also condense the passion and motivation to promote the country's prosperity and national prosperity.

Although residents born and raised in Dongguan will choose to worship their ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day on the same day, they will also go to various parks in Dongguan to climb mountains and climb festivals, such as Qifeng Park, Shuilian Mountain Park, Dalingshan Forest Park and Songshan Lake, all of which are good places!

Qingming is, after all, a spring season. Cheng Hao, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem "Doing things in the suburbs is doing things": "The grass is wild, and spring is around the mountains. I am running across Liuxiang and sitting in Diji because of the flowing water. " It describes the beautiful scenery of Qingming!

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Is there any special food in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Zituiyan

In the northern festival food, there is a kind of seed push swallow, named after meson push. In the Song Dynasty, people made swallows out of flour and jujube paste, strung them with wicker and hung them on the door to summon the soul of meson push, so they called them Zituiyan. Yulin in northern Shaanxi and Tomb-Sweeping Day in Yan 'an push steamed buns, also called old steamed buns, which are as big as half a catty to a catty like the helmets of ancient military commanders. Eggs or red dates are wrapped inside, with a top and flowers on the top. Flower cotton is a Four Treasures of the Study made of swallows, insects, snakes, rabbits or flour. This is for men. And women eat long shuttle buns, and unmarried women eat ground buns. Children eat noodles such as swallows, snakes and tigers, and boys like tiger buns best. This custom is still circulating today.

Youth league; Sweet green rice ball

Among the seasonal foods in the south, eating green balls from Jiangsu and Zhejiang is very distinctive. According to legend, Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was chased by the Qing army, so he dressed up as a farmer to drive cattle and plow the fields, only to escape the pursuit of the Qing army. But the Qing soldiers set up troops in the village to search. He couldn't go into the village, but he was so hungry that he asked Zhang San, a villager, to find him food. When Zhang San saw a brainwave of wormwood, he boiled wormwood, added glutinous rice, steamed green dumplings and gave them to Li Xiucheng. Cai Li is full. When it spread, it became a new food in the Qingming Festival. Later, there were many ways to make it, and it was more delicious. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, Qingming often eats red disasters.

Wet the cake

Eating wet cakes in southern Fujian is also called spring rolls and spring cakes. The method is to cut green vegetables such as bean sprouts, leeks, celery, carrots, dried beans, shredded pork and so on. As a filling, powder such as powdered sugar and seaweed crisp is sprinkled and rolled into a tube.

Sazi

The real name of cold weapon originated in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Sprinkling seeds is fried pasta, which is crisp and delicious, and some sesame seeds are better. In Qi Shu Yao Min, it is said that this is a kind of rice cake. This kind of food still exists among Uighurs and Hui people in the south, north and northwest.

Qingming snail

In the south, snails were the most plump before breeding in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is known as "a snail is worth a goose in Tomb-Sweeping Day". Eating snail meat in Tomb-Sweeping Day is called picking green. After eating, throw the snail shell on the roof, saying that the rolling sound energy scared away the mice and was convenient for sericulture. You can stir-fry with shells, or you can cook and pick out snail meat for cold salad or stir-fry.

Preserve eggs

Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day is called saving eggs. There are generally two kinds of eggs: one is egg painting, in which eggs and duck eggs are cooked, and madder juice is used as dye to depict flowers on eggshells. A few days later, when the eggshell was peeled off, blue flower patterns appeared on the protein, which was really beautiful. The other is egg carving, in which eggs and duck eggs are cooked, then a pattern is drawn on the eggshell with a pen, then the whole egg is hollowed out with a knife, and then the egg white and yolk are taken out in turn. The exquisite degree of its carving is amazing, and it can be eaten and seen.

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Where does Tomb-Sweeping Day go to play in Luoyang?

1: Shen _ Guzhen

Shen _ Ancient Town is located in the remnant vein of Funiu Mountain, with beautiful mountains and rivers. There are many places of interest in the territory, including Lingquan Temple, Huaxilou, Zushi Temple, Dengyuzhai and Junyao Site. China, a famous historical and cultural town with more than 5,000 years of ceramic culture accumulation, is known as the only "living ancient town" in China and the first batch of characteristic towns in China.

2. Taishan Village, xinzheng city

Taishan Village Scenic Area is located in longhu town, Xinzheng, with an altitude of about 312m, and belongs to hilly area. Its Taishui River flows around, waterfalls in gullies flow through, and flowing water gurgles, which adds spirituality to the scenic spot and forms a beautiful scenery surrounded by mountains and rivers. Due to the special geographical location and climatic conditions, Taishan Village is suitable for forest growth. Thousands of plants grow here, and the forest coverage rate is over 85%. In addition, locust trees have been growing for thousands of years.

3: sanxiang town

Sanxiang Town, the first ancient town in Han and Tang Dynasties, has beautiful scenery and a long history. The East Village is famous for its "cold sand and clouds" and "misty water in the Tang Palace". Among them, the leaning tower of Pisa in China, Wuhua Temple Tower, has been magnificent for thousands of years. It is also the hometown of Li He, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. Many talented people have sung wine here, which is very interesting.

4. Chongdugou Village in Luoyang

Chongdugou Village has the reputation of "the first village of farmhouse hotels in China". Liu Xiuer, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was given the gift of an emperor because he crossed Yishui here, got rid of Wang Mang's pursuit and achieved imperial industry. There are three scenic spots in Chongdugou. One must be water, and hundreds of springs converge into a clear stream in Lanxi. The second is bamboo, and the overwhelming 10,000 mu of bamboo forest has formed a natural gallery. Sanjue is a farmhouse hotel with a strong mountain flavor, which is distributed in the clean stream of the bamboo sea.

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