The Significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day's Painting Eggs

The significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day's painting of eggs can deepen children's understanding of the traditional Chinese festival "Tomb-Sweeping Day", understand the customs and habits of Tomb-Sweeping Day, and inspire children's love for national culture.

Drawing eggs is one of the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to folk custom, Tomb-Sweeping Day painted eggs in various colors to make colorful eggs, symbolizing perfection. Drawing eggs can bring children closer to Qingming and feel the traditional culture. The children gave eggs to each other with good expectations and wished everyone happiness and well-being.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. "Painting eggs in Qingming Festival, painting folk customs in color". After learning about the origin, customs and commemorative significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the children played creative egg painting activities to welcome Tomb-Sweeping Day by painting and decorating eggs.

Let students feel the essence of traditional festivals in China, cultivate feelings of loving the Party, patriotism and socialism, and inspire students' reverence for martyrs. The students said that they will remember history, follow the footsteps of revolutionary martyrs, study hard, cherish a happy life, and contribute to the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream.

Legend of painting eggs in Qingming custom

The ancient Xiaogan area is a part of Yunmengze, a water town. People make a living by fishing. Because people blow the lake breeze in the lake every day, they have headaches. One day, Shennong, who had tasted all kinds of herbs, passed Yunmengze and saw someone rolling on the lake beach because of a headache. Shennong sympathized with them and looked for herbs everywhere to treat their headaches. But nothing works.

On the third day of March, Shennong picked up some wild eggs from the mountain, dug a handful of vegetables and brought them to the boat to cook for people to satisfy their hunger. People will suddenly feel headache after eating rice and scrambled eggs. Later, it became a custom to eat vegetables and boil eggs on the third day of March, which has continued to this day.