What is the origin of Qingming Festival in 80 words?

The Origin of Qingming Festival:

The traditional Qingming Festival in China began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming was at first a very important festival. Once Qingming arrived, the temperature rose and it was a great time for spring plowing and planting.

Later, due to the Qingming and cold food days close to the day, and cold food is the day of the folk ban on fire sweeping the tomb, gradually, cold food and Qingming into one, and the cold food has become the alias of the Qingming, but also into the Qingming festival of a custom, the Qingming day does not move the fireworks, and only eat cold food.

Customs of the Qingming Festival:

1, eat green dumplings

Qingming Festival, the Jiangnan area have eaten green dumplings custom. Green dumplings green as jade, glutinous tough and soft, fragrant, eat sweet but not greasy, fat but not fat. Green dumplings or people in the southern part of the people used to worship ancestors must be food, because of this, green dumplings in the southern part of the folk food custom is particularly important.

2. Eat deep-fried noodle cakes

There is a custom of eating deep-fried noodle cakes in Qingming Festival in the north and south of China. "Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried food, which is crispy and exquisite, and was called "cold food" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food at the cold food festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the deep-fried noodle cakes related to this festival are y loved by the world.