What are the customs of Qingming?

"There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestor belief of early human beings, is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. Do you know some customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

1, according to legend, Jin Wengong designated the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day as the Cold Food Festival to commemorate the meson push of "cutting meat to serve the king", instead of cooking with a fire, he only ate cold food. Later, cold food was associated with Qingming Festival, and it became a custom to have a reunion dinner. Green balls are made of a kind of wormwood juice that is only available before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, mixed with proportional glutinous rice, kneaded into a ball by hand, and then wrapped with different fillings according to everyone's preferences. The green meatballs are sweet, soft and delicious, and have the fragrance of mugwort leaves.

2. Flying kites In ancient times, flying kites had a special meaning besides normal entertainment-avoiding disasters. When flying kites, the ancients always took a pair of scissors with them and wrote all the disasters they knew on the kite. After the kite flies high, they cut the kite string and let it float away with the wind, symbolizing their own diseases and dirty air, so as to achieve the purpose of eliminating disasters and avoiding disasters.

From the perspective of modern science, during the Qingming Festival, people fly kites, bathe in the sunshine, stretch their bones and muscles, stretch their necks far away, look at the sky, and walk quickly, so that people who live indoors for a long time in winter and have internal heat and blood stasis can enjoy fresh air, improve blood circulation, enhance the breathing ability of the lungs, and play a role in clearing "internal heat" and expelling the old and sucking in the new.

During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, and nature presents a vibrant scene everywhere, which is a good time to go for an outing. People in our country have always maintained the habit of going for an outing in Qingming. Legend has it that the Qingming outing began a long time ago. The intrinsic significance of Qingming outing is to conform to the seasonal solar terms. In spring and March, life began to flourish and everything sprouted. People go out to the wild and actively cater to the weather, thus promoting the circulation of yang in the body, which is of great benefit to health.

4. Swing is a custom in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day, China. Swing, that is, lift the rope, move. It has a very long history. It was originally called Qian Qiu, but later it was changed into a swing to avoid taboos. In ancient times, swings were made of branches and tied with ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into two ropes, a pedal swing. Swing plays were popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Swing was a very common game in the Tang Dynasty, and it became an important part of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs. Because swings can be seen everywhere in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day was designated as a swing festival in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and swings were also installed in palaces for queens, concubines and maids to play with. Playing swing can not only improve health, but also cultivate courage, which is deeply loved by people, especially children.

5. Eating Eggs When you arrive in Tomb-Sweeping Day, your family will prepare some eggs for a lifetime, which has a very auspicious meaning. Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day means that you will be healthy in the new year, and no one at home will get sick. Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day is called "saving eggs". There are two kinds of eggs, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted eggs can be eaten, while "carving eggs" is just for enjoyment. Cooked eggs, good at keeping fresh, simple to match and can satisfy hunger, are the first choice for people to celebrate the holidays!

These are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day that I know. What else do you know, my friend?