Why do you eat eggs on Qingming Festival?

Eating eggs on the Qingming Festival symbolizes a full circle.

Since the cold food custom of the Cold Food Festival was transplanted to the Qingming Festival, some places in the north of China still retain the custom of eating cold food on the Qingming Festival. In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cold biscuits, and Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Changdao eat eggs and cold sorghum rice.

The colorful eggs are thrown into the river and washed away with the current, and those waiting downstream j go to pick them up and consume them, and after eating them, pregnancy is easier. Therefore, the egg is a symbol of life, and it is auspicious to eat it on the Qingming Festival.

Expanded Information

The Qingming Festival also incorporates the customary content of another festival that appeared earlier - the Shangsi Festival. The festival is commonly known as the third of March, is the most important festival in the ancient "purification shore bath" activities.

People went to the water's edge to bathe in groups, known as the "purification of purification", and since then it has increased the content of the ritual feasts, goblets, countryside tour of spring and so on. In many places, after the completion of the ritual ceremony, the sacrificial food will be divided to eat.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Qingming Festival (Traditional Chinese Festival)