Customs of Qingming Festival in Zhanjiang

The people of Zhanjiang have the custom of sweeping tombs and paying homage to the mountains during Qingming.

The urban and rural areas are the same, most of them are concentrated in the Qingming Day, but also a few days before and after the Qingming. Folk worship activities, the main offerings are roast pig, fat goose, rice balls, duck eggs, crabs, cakes and so on. Institutions, organizations, schools also focus on the Qingming Festival to visit the tomb of the martyrs, to the martyrs to lay wreaths, in memory of the martyrs.

Ten miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs. Located in the southern border of Zhanjiang, in the long process of historical development of folklore, not only obviously influenced by the folklore of the Central Plains, but also has a strong local characteristics.

Guangdong, especially Zhanjiang, has done a good job of protecting and passing on traditional culture, and many of the customs of the Qingming Festival have been preserved locally. With the development of the times, the younger generation nowadays is more and more unfamiliar with some traditional customs. However, for such an important traditional festival as Qingming Festival, we should pay attention to and respect it, and carry it forward.