Tomb-Sweeping Day custom, Guangzhou.

In Dongguan, sweeping graves on Qingming Festival is called "worshipping mountains", also called "hanging paper". When it comes to sacrifices, Tomb-Sweeping Day pays attention to apples, sugar cane and suckling pigs.

Hakka people have different opinions about Tomb-Sweeping Day eating mugs, but in Fenggang, Dongguan, it is said that because there are many thunderstorms in Tomb-Sweeping Day, eating mugs is not afraid of being struck by lightning. Some people say that children will feel better if they eat mugwort.

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Many residents of Guangfu people are descendants of Guyue people, so the Qingming custom of Guangfu has both the ancient charm of the Han people in the Central Plains and the unique tickets of Baiyue people. In the 20-year-old festival folk custom, festival ceremonies with Lingnan characteristics and inheritance factors of the Central Plains can be seen everywhere. According to legend, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the custom of sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day has generally arisen along the Pearl River.

The so-called grave sweeping means cutting off the miscellaneous skins around the cemetery, tidying them up a little, laying white tomb paper and utensils on the grave and pressing them with small mud balls; After laying the basic paper, put offerings such as cakes, eggs and pork in front of the grave, light incense sticks, bow down and burn paper money, and then set off firecrackers. ? "During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the north did not pay much attention to cold food and Qingming, so the cultural center of gravity in the north has moved south.

Therefore, festivals and customs in the north are also accepted by people in Lingnan and Guangzhou. What is particularly interesting is that Lingnan people attach great importance to Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave sweeping? (Han. Guo Xingwen, China ancient festival custom). The custom of grave-sweeping sacrifice in Tomb-Sweeping Day is basically inherited from the Central Plains, and the content of the ceremony is basically the same. In traditional society, ancestors are generally buried in the mountains, so Guangfu people are used to calling ancestor worship (sweeping graves) "worshipping mountains".