What are the customs of Qingming Festival in Guangxi

Strong family members love the five-color glutinous rice very much and regard it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest. On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar or the Qingming Festival, Zhuang people usually make five-color glutinous rice to offer sacrifices to their ancestors and entertain friends and relatives. On the occasion of a child's full moon and a housewarming, they will also steam five-color glutinous rice and give it to their neighbors to express their respect. People in the lintel and around the house inserted a branch of maple leaves, in the village at the end of the cottage set up a cloth shed, under the cloth shed on the five-color rice and other offerings, men, women and children around the cloth shed singing, catching song pedantry, the elderly will also be dyed hard-boiled eggs in a small mesh pocket, hanging on the chest of the child, men and women in the song pedantry, and young people, but also "touch the egg".

Strong family members often to the color of glutinous rice is bright, sweet taste to assess whether the hostess is a real clever woman. On the third day of the third month or at the beginning of the Qingming Festival, before dawn, the housewives of each family have to get up and soak the colorful glutinous rice into a steamer basket and steam it over a gentle fire. Guangxi people's clan concept is relatively heavy, but also more traditional, Guangxi people see "worship mountain" as a very important festival in the year, the preparation of worship mountain supplies as the preparation of the Spring Festival goods as careful.

To this day, many places in Guangxi, especially in the countryside, many families in the worship of the mountain to carry a piglet, with a goose to worship the mountain. The procedure for Guangxi people to worship the mountain is not really special, and usually the family sets off in the morning in a big way, rushing to finish the festival before lunch. When going up the mountain, encountered a willow tree to fold down a branch in the hand, because there is a saying "Qingming not fold willow, the next life into a yellow dog", between the fear of this legend, some local people simply before the festival will be folded into a willow branch woven into a hat to wear on the head.