Ai Dumplings for Qingming Day

The Qingming Festival is a festival to worship ancestors. In the past, people believed that ghosts would enter the world and disturb people's peace during the Qingming Festival, and some people listed Qingming as one of the three major ghost festivals, while mugwort is a kind of plant that has the effect of repelling evil spirits and ghosts, so people would eat mugwort dumplings made of mugwort to repel evil spirits, so that the evil spirits wouldn't dare to come close to them.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc., is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originated from early human ancestor beliefs, and is the grandest and most important ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. The Qingming Festival has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival point and a traditional festival. Sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors and going on excursions are the two main rituals and themes of the Qingming Festival.