What are the customs of the Qingming Festival in each region?

Traditional customs know a lot

1, sweeping graves: since the Tang Dynasty, the cold food and Qingming merged into the Qingming Festival customs.

2. Swinging + Cuju:

Anciently, swings were made of boughs and boughs with colorful ribbons bolted on, and later developed into two ropes with pedals.

Cuju is the origin of playing soccer, which is said to have been invented by the Yellow Emperor for training warriors.

3, trekking and tree-planting: trekking is a spring tour, which was called exploring spring and searching for spring in ancient times.

4, kite flying, night flying "divine lanterns":

In the evening, small colorful lanterns are hung on the kites, and the strings are cut when the kites are in the air, so as to get rid of diseases and eliminate disasters.

5, insert willow: willow branches inserted under the eaves of the house, in honor of Shennong's, but also to ward off evil spirits.

6, eat green dumplings, hard-boiled eggs:

Eating green dumplings custom can be traced back more than 2,000 years ago in the Zhou Dynasty, it is said that the Qingming hard-boiled eggs to eat a year without a headache.

7, shooting willow, cockfighting, silkworms, etc.:

Shooting willow, will be loaded with pigeons gourd hanging high in the willow tree, bend the bow and shoot the gourd to pigeons flying out of the height of the winners and losers.

Cockfighting, starting from the Qingming Festival, fighting until the summer solstice, Tang Xuanzong favorite cockfighting.

Sericulture will be, sericulture hometown unique folklore, such as Wutong, Wuzhen, Chongfu, Chauquan and other water towns, to welcome the god of sericulture, shaking the fast boat, haunted by the pavilion, worship incense stools, boxing, dragon lanterns, warping the high pole, singing opera, etc., the vast majority of the boat in the boat, very water town characteristics.

Customs of Qingming around the bottom

Beijing: "Cold Food Thirteen"

The traditional "Cold Food Festival", also known as the "Fire Festival", says The traditional "Cold Food Festival", also known as the "Fire Changing Festival", is said to have burned the hearth of every household over the winter, and to be cleaned up after the fire in spring, so the family cease-fire for a day or two, and can only eat cold food. Old Beijing's "thirteen best cold foods" include: hoof roasted cake, screw turn, deep-fried noodle cake, ginger rib fork, donkey roll, sugar roast, Aiwowo, sugar rolled 馃, sugar ear, pea curd, charcoal ring, hard noodle cake, and sesame sauce roast cake. Another version of the "thirteen best cold food": hoof roasted cakes, sugar rolls and 馃 are replaced by creamy fried cake and noodle tea.

Jiangnan: eat green dumplings

Green dumplings are the use of green wormwood or "syrup wheat grass" juice, and glutinous rice flour pounded, and then bean paste with small pieces of sugar lard as a filling, out of the cage when brushed with cooked vegetable oil and become.

Zhejiang: rolling silkworm flowers, "picking green", "Qingming is as big as the year"

Tongxiang Jiangnan sericulture is the main producer of sericulture, Qingming rolling silkworm flowers is an important activity. Huzhou farmers eat snails at Ching Ming, with a needle to pick out the snail meat to cook, called "picking", the snail shells thrown to the roof, it is said that the snail shells rolling sound can scare away the rats, conducive to sericulture after Ching Ming.

Shanxi: no paper, pulling wheat seedlings hanging willow branches, sticking headdresses to receive son-in-law

South of the money will be hanging graves, home, pulling some wheat seedlings, inserted in the door of the pine branches and cypress leaves or willow to ward off evil spirits. Everyone's head inserted willow branches and leaves, women to use the gold Cai Sheng (headdress) attached to the temples. Lvliang area in the day after the Qingming, to pick up the son-in-law, commonly known as "fresh fire". Eating, the south of the steamed buns, walnuts, jujubes, beans, etc., known as Zifu, implying that the children and grandchildren are more fortunate. Home made black bean cold noodles, raw black bean sprouts, with cornbread black bean sprouts filling to eat. Northwest region with corn flour for cake, commonly known as "show yellow". Wenxi and other places, with embedded jujube cake rolled around on the mound, for the elderly underground scratching.

Guangdong: "line clear"

The clan together to sweep the tomb, for food, burning paper money to cultivate new soil, inserting new branches, kowtow to salute eat wine and food to go home. After the end of the share of pork to take home, with "Qingming buckwheat" fried to eat, but also "Qingming buckwheat" with shredded eggs and roasted meat fried spring rolls to eat, "line clear" task is considered complete.

Jiangsu: insert willow and peach blossom branches

Early in the morning, the door frame should be inserted willow and peach blossom branches, or the colorful peach blossom inserted on the door ring, peace and spring for well-being. Children weave willow branch ring to wear on the head, or the willow branch with leaves and skin to run to the top of the top, made of soft can shake the "willow ball".

Hunan: willow "remembering the years"

Changsha three days before the festival, seven days after the tomb, also known as the "hanging mountain", the best 3 p.m. before the completion. In Changsha, it is called "remembering the year" when you plant a willow at the end of the Qingming Festival.

Hubei: "standard tomb"

Wuhan family elders or eldest son in addition to the dead leaves and weeds, will be yellow paper money with soil and stone pressure in the grave, intended to show that the family still have descendants. Enshi, Xianning and other places, will be in the cemetery small trees or graves on bamboo poles hanging paper money, called "standard tomb".

Guangxi: "eyesight", "hanging green"

Hengzhou villagers take willow leaves and snails soaked in water to wash their eyes on the Qingming Festival, which is said to improve eyesight. In Xingren County, white paper is used to make long streamers to be hung at the head of graves, which is called "marking the graves" and "hanging the green".

Fujian: Tomb Sweeping has a "time difference"

Zhangzhou has chosen the first three days of March on the Si Festival, the Hakka people often after the Spring Festival. The day of the Qingming Festival only eat cold cakes.

Shandong: eating cold food, swinging

Imo eat eggs and cold biscuits, Tai'an eat cold pancakes rolled raw bitter vegetables to brighten the eyes. Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, Changdao eat eggs and cold sorghum rice, to avoid hail. Jinan urban and rural circulation swinging custom.

Sichuan: wear "willow leaf charm", hanging green, sacrificing fire god

Love beautiful women will wear willow on the head, called willow leaf charm. Ask a Taoist priest to draw paper charms hung on bamboo, and then hung to the grave, is "hanging green". On the cold food festival to extinguish the fire, the Qingming Festival to worship the fire god at the fire god's gate, and then come back to build a fire.

Xining people's "Tiansha"

Xining people's Qingming Festival from the spring equinox after the start, commonly known as "Tiansha", every day can be sweeping graves, until the Qingming Festival. Some families consider their girls and sons-in-law to be relatives and make special gifts to invite them. Traditional offerings are paper money, yellow paper, medieval coins, and 12 large steamed buns, food, wine, rice soup, milk tea, meat, burned paper and then light a coal fire, focusing on the food burned hot to eat. The men guessed the order and drank to the point of pain. The women talk about their families, pick up some sacrificial offerings scattered on the graves, and eat them with a pat on the back. It is said that after eating the offerings on the grave, the teeth will no longer hurt.

Hainan: the first sacrifice of "their ancestors", after the sacrifice of "ancestors"

Pigs, geese, fish, cakes, fruit and snacks offerings, burning incense and treasure. Residents of the same family name bring pigs and goats to the graves of their ancestors to pray for the prosperity of their children and grandchildren. The first sacrifice of "his ancestors", in front of the ancestral tablets at home set up "three animals", dry rice and other offerings, everyone kneeling. After the sacrifice of "ancestors", dozens or hundreds of households, with the family name of the clan are to participate. Wenchang, Qionghai and other winter solstice tomb sweeping, the west, such as Danzhou to more people as an honor. Haikou Fucheng burning incense first long after the young; fishermen in the bow of the boat firecrackers for peace.

Shanxi: "swim in the water", give paper money

Fuping County, please the spring of the famous mountain source water, *** rituals of a god, prepared livestock rituals, praying for a good harvest, called "swim in the water". In Xingping County, in-laws give each other paper money and pay respect to each other's graves. In Tongzhou County, willow branches are folded and inserted into the door and paper money is pasted on the tree trunk to prevent insects and ants. Luochuan County steamed buns for food, buns around the shape of birds and snakes for decoration.

Jiangxi: worship sweeping with spring cakes

Yongfeng County tomb sweeping before the three after the seven period, Anyi County, only the male line of sacrifice. Livestock rituals, but also with rice flour for fruit, called cocoon fruit, or pressure glutinous rice for cake, poured with sugar juice, known as rice fruit.

Hebei: pay attention to the "early Qingming", buy flowers, wine and treats

Tomb-sweeping and burning of paper in the week before the Qingming began, Ji'nan chose the cold food festival. It is customary to go out to the countryside to trek, see flowers, pick vegetables, hairpin willow. Dong'an County, five or seven days before the festival to sweep the tomb, the day in their own homes to pay tribute to their ancestors. Yuan's County Qingming Festival, also known as the Flower Festival, buy flowers and wine banquet guests.