What handicrafts can Tomb-Sweeping Day make?

What handicrafts can Tomb-Sweeping Day make?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. It is not only a solar term, but also the essence of two ancient festivals: Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival. Since ancient times, it has been an important traditional festival in China.

Liu Dai prayed:

Qingming custom/wearing willow leaves.

"Jasper makeup is as high as a tree, and thousands of green silk tapestries hang down."

This is a unique holiday custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Willow is full of vitality. It often spits out new buds first in spring. In the Book of Qi Yao Min, there is also a saying that "put willow branches on the house and ghosts will not enter the house". There is a saying that the custom of inserting willows is to drive away epidemic ghosts.

On the festival day, some people put willow branches in front of the door or under the eaves, some people wear wicker rings on their heads, some local women wear wicker on their heads, and men wear wicker on their bodies.

Willow rubbings:

Choose fresh willow leaves and put them on a clean paper towel, and pat them carefully to make their colors and outlines appear on the paper.

Willow collage:

On sunny days, take your children outdoors to pick up some willow leaves blown by the wind, and give full play to your children's imagination to have a fun leaf collage contest! Whether it is scenery, animals or objects around you, it is ok. The making of leaf stickers can help train children's hands-on ability, let them know the animals and plants around them, and also train children's design ability and cultivate aesthetic feeling.