The custom of the Chaoshan people to celebrate the Qingming Festival 200 words I will give points to the

Ching Ming is one of the twenty-four festivals in China, and is also a traditional folk festival in China. According to the lunar calendar, there is no fixed month and no fixed day, but all in February or March; that is, 106 days after the winter solstice of the previous year is Qingming; according to the solar calendar, it is April 5 or 4 (to the difference of February Ping or 29 of the year). The Chaoshan people celebrate the Qingming Festival with a strong local color, with similarities and differences in customs and activities across the country. Eating Pancakes. Pancake eating is very popular in Chaoshan, and almost every family is not an exception. There is a legend of eating pancakes at Qingming in Chaoshan: Zheng Jing, son of Zheng Chenggong, led an army to besiege the city of Zhangzhou in southern Fujian Province in the 14th year of the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty (1675), and the Qing army defender Huang Fangdu sent troops to resist the siege of the city for a few months, and the city's inhabitants died of starvation, and their bodies were strewn across the streets and alleys, and those who survived were wrapped up in mats to bury their bodies. In October of the same year, the Qing army surrendered, Zhangzhou people to mourn the death of friends and relatives, specially made pancakes shaped like a mat wrapped in a corpse, as a sacrifice to the consort of the dead, this custom has been passed down from generation to generation into the wind. Rolled pancakes are fine flour mixed with the right amount of warm water, fully stirred and kneaded into a lump, placed on the stove fire above the frying pan (pan), cooked into a round pancake crust, and then wrapped with fillings. There are two kinds of fillings: salty and sweet. The salty filling is made with cooked bean sprouts and leeks mixed with shredded chicken or pork, shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimp, shredded egg, and fried green onion beads and other seasonings. Entrance and in the pie crust coated with sweet and savory sauce into a gourmet. Sweet fillings with sugar made of crispy thin slices of sugar or add shredded melon booklet, sesame seeds and other condiments wrapped in a thin crust into a pancake. Eating with pancake skin rolled into a cylinder on the food. Qingming season, spring leek is warm, is a good liver vegetables, there are qi and blood, the effect of blood stasis. Proverbs have "spring food leek, law disease elimination" said. Add mung bean sprouts and have a heat detoxification and quench thirst and diuretic effect, healing effect is very wonderful, nutritious and delicious. The Chaoshan people eat pancakes on Qingming Day, which is a change from the ancient custom of Cold Food Festival. Eating pancakes on Qingming Day not only commemorates the meaning of the ancient custom of cold food, but also enjoys a delicious meal with a unique flavor. Steamed Pok Seed Kuey Teow. In Chaoshan, there is a kind of tree called Park Seed Tree (also called Park Ting Tree, belonging to the family of Elm), with ovate or long oval leaves and round fruits like green peas, which are sweet and non-toxic, and have the effect of eliminating phlegm and lowering qi. During the Qingming season, the climate turns warm, the grass and trees are lush, and the leaves of the Park Seed Tree are full of tender green. According to legend, in the past years before the Yuan soldiers in the Qingming invasion of Chaozhou, killing, poking and plundering, people do not have enough to live, was forced to take refuge in the mountains and forests, hungry for food, had to pick Park Seed leaves, fruit seeds to feed the hungry, the descendants of the eternal memory of the deep-seated hatred, so there is a "Qingming food leaves" folk proverb. Chao people for generations, the Qingming Festival processing and steaming "Park seed tree" to eat the custom, inherited. Park seed tree is picked Park seed leaves and fruits (commonly known as Park flag) mashed, mixed with rice into powder, sieve out the powder. When the rice is processed, sugar and baking powder are added to the rice flour, and the rice flour is mixed with an appropriate amount of water to fully ferment it, and then it is put into a ceramic peach-shaped kokeshi or plum blossom-shaped kokeshi. It is then placed in a steamer (stove) and steamed. The light green color of the fragrant bare product makes it a high-quality, fragrant, and colorful pak choi kwa. Tomb-sweeping. The custom of visiting graves and sweeping tombs is very popular in all parts of Chaoshan during the Qingming Festival. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as "hanging paper", for the winter solstice with the difference between the tomb-sweeping is also called "hanging spring paper". People go to their ancestors' graves to fill in the earth and tidy up the graves, sweep away the dust and weeds, and hang paper strips on the tombstones and piles of graves to hold ceremonies. Many compatriots, also have the habit of returning to their hometowns to sweep their graves at Ching Ming, to show that they do not forget their ancestors, do not forget their homeland. Since ancient times, the Qingming Tomb Sweeping is not only to commemorate one's ancestors, but also to honor the people who have done good deeds and good deeds for the people in the history, the people will commemorate him. Picnic and trekking. During the Qingming period, spring is on the ground, the peach and willow are green, the warblers fly and grass grows, people go to the field in groups to play trekking. This custom has been inherited from a long time ago, so the Qingming Festival is also known as the Treading Green Festival, and the Chaoshan people also have the Qingming excursion and trekking activities. In some places, there are cockfighting, kicking balls, kicking keys, swinging swings, flying kites and other projects, very amusing.　　Help to adopt it