Customs of the Ching Ming Festival

Ancestor worship: at noon on this day, each family should cook "Run cake dishes" (spring rolls), with livestock sweet, to the hall, ancestral house filial piety to the souls of the ancestors, as well as Alcove Lord, the foundation of the Lord and so on. Quanzhou Qingming Festival food custom is to eat "Run cake dishes" and "Qingming _", when the ancient cold food festival food customs of the legacy.

"Run cake dishes" is to flour as raw material rubbed and baked into a thin skin, commonly known as "Run cake" or "rub cake", and then rolled shredded carrots, shredded meat, oyster omelette, turnip and other mixed pots and dishes, can be eaten, sweet, moist and delicious. The food is sweet, moist and delicious. Xiamen folk proverb "Qingming eat pancakes", meaning that the family should get together to eat pancakes after sweeping the graves on Qingming Day. Today, most places in southern Fujian still retain this custom.

Treading Green: On the third day of the Ching Ming Festival, groups of people traveled and enjoyed the scenery, spreading out in the four suburbs, which is called trekking green. "Pear blossom wind is Qingming, travelers looking for spring half out of the city."

Tomb-sweeping: also known as "tomb-sweeping". Tomb-sweeping at Ching Ming has a long history and was popular in the Tang Dynasty. Dream sorghum record" records: in ancient times, the day of the Qingming Festival, "officials and the general public, all out of the countryside to save the grave". Ancestors, graves, tombs, expressing respect for the ancestors and filial piety. In Minnan Qingming Festival customs, 10 days before and after the Qingming Festival for the date of sweeping the tomb, such as repairing the tomb and picking up the skeleton (pick up bones) to move the burial, it is not necessary to choose a separate date, everything is not taboo.