Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in various regions

Beijing: The traditional "Cold Food Festival", also known as the "Fire-changing Festival", said that every household's stove burned all winter and had to be put out and cleaned after the spring, so the family did not fight for a day or two and had to eat cold food.

Jiangnan: Eat green balls. Some green balls are made of green mugwort leaves or "pulp wheat straw" juice and glutinous rice flour, then stuffed with bean paste and small pieces of sugar lard, and brushed with cooked vegetable oil when they come out.

Shanxi: Don't make paper, pull out wheat seedlings and hang willow branches, stick headdresses to meet son-in-law, hang money on graves in the south, pull out some wheat seedlings when you go home, and insert pine branches, cypress leaves or willow branches on the door to ward off evil spirits. People put dead leaves of willow branches on their heads, and women should stick gold lacquer ornaments on their temples.

Guangdong: "Xingqing" people sweep graves together, provide food, burn paper, cultivate new soil, insert new branches, kowtow and eat dining tables and go home. After that, take the pork home, fry it with "Qingming buckwheat dish" and eat it with shredded eggs, shredded pork and fried spring rolls. Only in this way can the task of "clearing" be completed.