Qingming why should insert willow, sweep the tomb?

There are several reasons;

1, Legend I

(1) One theory is that the Song Dynasty poet Liu Yong weekday life debauchery, often in and out of the streets of flowers and willow alleys, brothels and brothels, and most of what he did is a pornographic words.

(2) The courtesans and dancers of the time loved to sing his words. Liu Yong's life is frustrating, and finally died in Xiangyang, by some of the famous prostitutes to collect funds to be buried hastily. Since then, every Qingming, hundreds of miles of courtesans meet to sweep his grave, sacrifices, in the roadside folding willow hairpin, in order to commemorate the?

2, legend two

(1) in the north of Suzhou dysentery there is another saying. Ming Taizu's original wife Ma Niangniang in a Qingming trekking in the countryside, because of a pair of big feet and villagers taunted. The villagers were not as good as she was Ma Niangniang, and Ma Niangniang told her master to write down the name of the village and vowed to take revenge.

(2) On her way back to Nanjing, she met an old woman dressed as "Wisdom Star", who said that she was ridiculed because of her big feet, and Niangniang Ma wanted to leave this person behind to shield herself, so she asked her to stick two willows in front of her door at night.

(3) Wisdom returned to the village and told the villagers to stick willows in front of their doors, which finally saved the whole village from being massacred.