The end of the essay on the Qingming Festival

The 5th is the traditional Chinese "Qingming Festival", which is naturally the theme of paying homage to the ancestors. In addition to sweeping the graves, Qingming also has many other customs, such as trekking, willow, kite flying, "eating eggs" and other food customs are also interesting.　　Today's Qingming is, first and foremost, a festival of mourning. On this day of the year, put aside the mundane tasks at hand and pay homage to your loved and respected ancestors, either with a big bow or a tap of the mouse, it's just the right thing to do. Below, let's look at the tomb sweeping outside of Qingming, what other traditional customs ~ ~ ~ Qingming Customs Qingming Customs Qingming Customs mainly have tomb sweeping ancestor, cold food give fire, willow wear willow, spring tour trekking, Cuju, swinging, kite flying, fighting birds, tug-of-war, gift painting eggs, eat green dumplings, eating red lotus root, planting trees and so on, of course, the most important custom is to pay homage to the ancestors, mourning their loved ones. Willow wear willow and the ancients to get rid of ghosts and evil concepts related to willow in the minds of the ancients have to get rid of the function of ghosts, wear to prevent ghosts. According to records, the Qing Dynasty folk "Qingming not insert willow, red face into white head" of the proverb, visible in the past insert willow wear willow is the necessary decoration of Qingming. Cold Food Tianjin Municipal Academy of Social Sciences Professor Wang Laihua said that the Cold Food Festival, also known as the "anti-smoking festival", "Cold Festival", "Hundred Five Festival", generally in the summer calendar, after the winter solstice one hundred and five days, later than the last Festival Earlier than the Qingming Festival. The Han Dynasty was held three days before the Qingming Festival, to the Tang and Song dynasties changed to the day before the Qingming Festival. Cold Food Festival ban on fireworks, only eat cold food.　　There are different stories about the origin of the Cold Food Festival, and the most widely circulated story is in honor of Jie Zi Tui of the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period. The Duke of Jin, Chong Er, had been in exile for more than ten years, and Jie Zi Pui was instrumental in protecting him. When Chong Er returned to his homeland and assumed the throne, Jie Zi Pui went into hiding in the mountains to avoid officialdom. Chong Er set fire to the mountain in the hope of forcing out Jie Zi Pui, but did not expect to burn him to death. Later generations to commemorate Jie Zi push, there is a ban on fire, and the formation of the Cold Food Festival this special commemorative holiday.　　Folklore experts said that the cold food festival is the day before the Qingming Festival, the ancients often continue the activities of the cold food festival to the Qingming, over time, people will be cold food and Qingming into one. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, fire was no longer prohibited during the Cold Food Festival, and people were not required to eat cold food. Treading Green Since the Tang Dynasty, the Qingming Festival has been accompanied by the Treading Green Festival, so it is also known as the Treading Green Festival.　　Because Qingming is the best time of spring, there has been a tradition of trekking in Qingming since ancient times, and people often bring wine and food with their families to the countryside to get close to nature in the forests and wild places. Common activities in hiking and trekking include swinging, tug-of-war, butterfly-fighting, picking grasses, kite-flying, willow-planting, and tree-planting. Among the traditional Qingming customs, willow planting and willow wearing are also the unique fashions of Qingming. The willow tree is the best tree in spring, and it is the first to get the spring breath, and it is said that the passing of the new fire in the folklore is also transmitted by willow.　　 Swinging Qingming Festival is also known as the "Swing Festival", legend has it that swinging can drive away all diseases, the higher the swing, symbolizing the better life, the North and South Dynasties has been popular, since the Tang Dynasty is prevalent in the north and south of the Yangtze River.　　This is the ancient Qingming Festival customs. Swing, that is, holding the leather rope and migration. Its history is very old, the earliest called the thousand autumn, after in order to avoid taboos, changed to swing. Ancient swing with tree branches for the frame, and then bolted on the ribbon made. Later gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Swinging can not only improve health, but also cultivate the spirit of bravery, and is still loved by people, especially children.　　 Cuju (蹴鞠) Cuju is a kind of leather ball made of leather and stuffed with wool. Cuju is a kind of leather ball made of leather and stuffed with wool. Cuju is a kind of leather ball made of leather and stuffed with hair. Cuju is to kick a ball with the feet.　　 Kite flying is also a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. During the Qingming Festival, people not only fly kites during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of small colorful lanterns are hung under the kite or on the wind steady pulling line, like twinkling stars, which are called "divine lanterns". In the past, some people put the kites into the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the wind send them to the end of the world, which is said to get rid of diseases and bring good luck to themselves.　　 Tug-of-war Tug-of-war in Qingming began in the Tang Dynasty, and was held at the time of spring plowing and planting in the Qingming season, with the implication of praying for a good harvest.　 Inserting Willow, Wearing Willow In the ancient concept, the willow tree has magical power, take willow branches and put them on the house, a hundred ghosts will not enter the house.　　The Tang Dynasty believed that when sacrificing at the riverside on March 3, wearing willow branches on the head could get rid of the harm of poisonous insects. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Qingming Festival willow custom is very prevalent. The Northern Wei Dynasty Jia Si Fo "Qi Min Yao Ji" also recorded: "Take willow branches on the household, a hundred ghosts do not enter the house."　　 Tree Planting Before and after the Qingming Festival, it is not too cold and not too hot, sometimes there are spring rains, planting saplings with a high survival rate. Since ancient times, the folk have the habit of planting trees at Qingming, and the custom of planting trees at Qingming Festival has been passed down to the present day. In Taiwan and southern Fujian folk, people like to plant Acacia trees, so that the deceased loved ones have a home, so that the living have thoughts of support.　　Qingming food experts said that the Qingming Festival, in addition to sweeping the ancestors, its food customs are also colorful. Eat eggs In some places, Qingming to eat eggs, as Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes as important. Folk custom that the Qingming Festival to eat an egg, a whole year have a good body. According to reports, Qingming to eat eggs custom, there have been thousands of years of history. Folklore experts say that it symbolizes people's fear and reverence for life and fertility.　　Experts say that eating eggs, is derived from the ancient festival of sacrifice. People seeking children for marriage, will be a variety of poultry eggs such as eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs, etc. boiled and coated with a variety of colors, called the "colorful eggs", they came to the river colorful eggs cast into the river, downstream, such as the downstream of the people to fight for fishing, peeling and eating, eating can be conceived. Now the Qingming Festival to eat eggs to symbolize the fullness of the circle. In some areas of the countryside, there is also the custom of children "bumping eggs". If you want to explore the symbolism of eating eggs and bumping eggs in Qingming Festival, it should also imply people's reverence and faith in life and fertility.　　 Eating Green Dumplings During the Qingming Festival, it is customary to eat green dumplings in the southern part of the country. The green dumplings are made from the juice of a wild plant called "wheatgrass", which is pounded and squeezed, and then the juice is mixed and kneaded with dried, water-ground pure glutinous rice flour, and then the dumplings are made. The filling of the dumplings is made of fine sweetened bean paste, and a small piece of sweetened lard is added to the filling. After the dumplings are made, they are steamed in a cage and when they are taken out of the cage, the cooked vegetable oil is brushed evenly over the surface of the dumplings, which is the end of the process. Green dumplings green as jade, glutinous and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy to eat, fat but not fat.　　Green dumplings are also used to worship ancestors in the southern part of the country, which is why they are particularly important in the folk food customs of the southern part of the country.　　 Eating deep-fried noodle cakes There is a custom of eating deep-fried noodle cakes on Qingming Festival in the north and south of China. "Deep-fried noodle cakes, which are crispy and exquisite, were called "cold utensils" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food on the cold food festival is no longer popular in most parts of China, but deep-fried noodle cakes associated with this festival are very popular among the world. Nowadays, deep-fried noodle cakes are popular in the Han area with the difference between the north and the south: the northern deep-fried cakes are generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; the southern deep-fried cakes are delicate and detailed, with rice flour as the main material. In the minority areas, there are many varieties of deep-fried noodle cakes with different flavors, especially the deep-fried noodle cakes of Uygur, Dongxiang, Naxi and Ningxia Hui are the most famous ones.　　 Chingming Snail At the time of Chingming Festival, it is the best time to eat snail, because the snail has not yet reproduced at this time, and it is the most plump and fat, so it is said that "snail of Chingming Festival can be eaten by a goose". Snail eating method is quite a lot, can be fried with onion, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar; can also be boiled and picked out of the snail meat, can be mixed, can be drunk, can be bad, can be choked, all appropriate. If eaten properly, it can really be called "a flavor of snail a thousand interesting, delicious wine are not as good as".　　 Steamed Pork Seed Kuey Teow with Pancake The Chaoshan people celebrate the Qingming Festival with a strong local color. Eating pancake is very popular in Chaoshan, and almost every family is an exception. Pancakes are divided into two parts, the skin and the filling. Filling two parts, the skin is made of flour mixed with water and stirred into a sticky paste, in the hot loam burned into a round sheet of cooked dough, which is as thin as paper. Filling is divided into two kinds of salty and sweet, from eggs, meat, liver, preserved flavor. Shiitake mushrooms, as well as bean sprouts, chives and other cooked ingredients mixed into the filling is called savory filling; with sugar and maltose after special processing to become "sugar onion" for the sweet filling. It is eaten when rolled into a cylinder with a thin cake skin.　　Steamed Pok Seed Kuey Teow. In Chaoshan, there is a kind of tree called Park Seed Tree (also called Park Ting Tree, belonging to the family of Elm), with oval leaves and fruits as big as mung beans, with a sweet taste. Legend has it that the ancestors used to pick the leaves of this tree to feed themselves during famine years. Qingming season, the climate is warming up, grass and trees shade, park seed tree leaves full of bush green. In order not to forget the past, the descendants picked the leaves of this tree during the Ching Ming Festival, pounded and pounded the rice into powder, fermented it and mixed it with sugar, and then steamed it in a ceramic mold to make Park Seed Kuey Teow, which is available in plum blossom and peach shapes, and is also known as Bowl of Peach Leavening. The kueh is light green in color and sweet in taste, and it is said that eating it can relieve accumulated heat and illness.　　 Run Cake Vegetables During the Qingming Festival, people in Quanzhou have the custom of eating "Run Cake Vegetables". It is said that this is the legacy of the ancient cold food festival food customs.　　The proper name of the "Run Cake Vegetables" should be spring cake. Qingming to eat cakes, not only is unique to Quanzhou, Xiamen people also like it. Legend has it that the pioneer of this way of eating, is the Ming Dynasty, the Governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Guangdong military affairs of Tongan Cai Fuyi. At that time, Tong'an was under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou Prefecture, so this way of eating has spread, and in southern Fujian has become a family favorite. However, spring pancakes in southern Fujian have the same form, but the content is very different.　　Quanzhou's "Runcake dishes" is made of flour as raw material rubbed and baked into a thin crust, commonly known as "Runcake" or "rub cake", when eating spread the crust, and then rolled shredded carrots, shredded meat, oyster omelette, turnips and other mixed-pot dishes, the production of food is all the time. Mixed pot dishes, making food are simple, eat sweet and savory. Jinjiang's "Run Cake dishes" but much more complex, that package of "Run Cake dishes" is certainly a variety of main ingredients, set a table full of. There are some main dishes: peas, bean sprouts, dried beans, sliced fishballs, shrimp, diced meat, oyster omelette, turnip greens. There are also some ingredients: crispy seaweed, fried egg, peanut dressing, turnip, garlic. When you eat it, you must have two "moist cake skins" to ensure that it is not burst by the rich content. Two rolls of this crispy, sweet, mellow and flavorful delicacy are enough for the average person.　 Wurim Rice The She family's "Wurim Rice" must be mentioned in the context of Qingming food customs, because the eastern part of Fujian Province is inhabited by the She ethnic group. Every year on the third day of March, She people cook "Wu Nim rice" in every household and give it to their Han relatives and friends, and over time, the local Han people also have the custom of eating "Wu Nim rice" during Qingming. Especially in Kurong County, every year the folk must use "Wu Nim rice" sacrifice, it can be seen that China since ancient times is a big family of nationalities living in harmony.　　According to She folklore, in the second year of the Tang Dynasty, Lei Wanxing, a She hero, led a She army to fight against the government soldiers, but was besieged in the mountains, and the food was cut off in the winter. The She army had to pick Wu Nim fruit to feed their hunger, so Lei Wanxing led them down the mountain on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar and broke out of the siege. From then on, every March 3rd, Lei Wanxing always called his soldiers and generals to hold a banquet to celebrate the victory of breaking through the siege. And he ordered the soldiers of She Army to pick up the leaves of Wu Nim and let the military cooks make "Wu Nim Rice", so that the whole army could have a full meal to commemorate the victory. This "Wu Nim rice" production method is not complicated, will pick down the Wu Nim tree leaves, wash, put into the water to boil, fishing off the leaves, then, the glutinous rice soaked in Wu Nim soup, soaked for 9 hours after fishing, put in the steamer cage to steam, can be eaten when cooked. Made "Wu Nim rice", from the appearance alone, not very beautiful, black color, but the aroma of rice and general glutinous rice, compared with a different flavor. The She people to commemorate the national hero, and since then every year on "March 3" to steam "Wu Nim rice" to eat, over time, it has become a She custom. And because of the East Fujian area, She Han mixed, the people have been friendly, frequent marriages, so the food "Wu Nim rice" has also become the East Fujian various nationalities *** with the possession of the Qingming food customs.　　 Zi push bun "Zi push bun", also known as the old bun, similar to the helmet of the ancient generals, weighing about 250-500 grams. It is filled with eggs or red dates and has a top on it. The top is surrounded by a flower. The flower is a small bun molded in the shape of a swallow, a worm, a snake, a rabbit, or the Four Treasures of the Scholar's House. The round "Zi Pui Bun" is reserved for men. Married women eat the bar-shaped "pike bun" and unmarried girls eat the "bun bun".　　The children are served with Yan, Snake, Rabbit, Tiger and so on. The "big tiger" is exclusively for boys and is the most popular among them. Parents string various kinds of small noodle flowers with pear branches or thin twine and hang them on the roof of the kiln or next to the window frames for the children to enjoy. The air-dried flowers can be preserved until the next year's Qingming Festival.　　Noodle flowers are the specialty of women in northern Shaanxi. With their dexterous hands, they can knead fermented white flour into various shapes. The tools are combs, scissors, awls, tweezers and other daily necessities, supplemented by red beans, black beans, peppercorns and food coloring. The steamed dough flowers are so vivid and lifelike that they are like works of art, and people are so fond of them that they can't bear to eat them right away.　　In addition to their own consumption, the "Zi Pui Bun" and noodle flowers are also used as gifts for friends and relatives. Mothers give them to their daughters who got married in the same year, which is called "sending cold food". Rural children give them to their teachers, so that gardeners who have left their homes to teach and educate alone in remote mountain villages can share in the festive food.　　 Steamed Noodle Swallow Also known as "Zi Push Swallow", it is made of noodles and jujube paste, pinched into the shape of a swallow, and the production process is similar to that of steamed buns, which are strung on willow sticks and inserted in the door in honor of Jie Zi Push.　 "Qingming Dog" is a food made by people in Zhejiang during the Qingming Festival. First pick some young lotus, and then mixed with glutinous rice powder, made, the family has a few people on the production of a few, hung up until the summer, cooked can be eaten, folklore, "ate the Qingming dog, a year of health to the head," the saying.　　 In addition, some areas in the Qingming Festival there are food cakes, Qingming fruit, sandwich cakes, Qingming dumplings, steamed rice cakes, Qingming poi, dry porridge and a variety of other foods