Chongqing Customs

1, eat cold food

Chongqing people in the Qingming day, the custom of eating cold food. In the past, people sweep the grave of the "Qingming food", often pot helmet with brine, cold vegetables. This kind of pot kui inside the sandwich "and vegetables", by the fans, lettuce, shredded pork (or chicken), plus tsubaki sprouts cold and become.

2, Qingming Po

Qingming Po with Qingming vegetables, said to have a medical effect. Because of the similarity in pronunciation between Qingming and smart, it is also said that children will become smart if they eat Qingming Ba.

The book name of Qingming Cai is sage, and around the Qingming Festival, this edible weed suddenly flourishes. It grows only sporadically in the city, but flourishes in clusters and clumps in the riverbank mud.

3. Drinking glutinous rice wine and singing bamboo stick words

According to the Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi, Chongqing people also liked to drink glutinous rice wine and sing bamboo stick words when they celebrated the Qingming Festival. In ancient times, the Qingming Festival was a day of poetry for literati and writers, and Qingming poems took the lead among the twenty-four poems chanted during the festival.

4, flying kites

"Qingming is a yearly festival for the elderly." In the eyes of the elderly, Qingming is the best time of the year. The wind and sunshine, so people choose to go to the countryside at this time to fly kites. This is because during this period after the beginning of spring, the wind is consistent and there is no stormy weather, which is a good time to fly kites.

5, catch the temple

Catch the temple, is the city's most grand festival. The old record: "know the ritual home, set the Lord in the main bed, the year must be sacrificed. "Where the family temple must be provided by the Lord's idol, according to the Lord's birth date, set as the session; there is also a historical celebrity's death anniversary for the temple fair day. Because of the Lord's birthday or anniversary of the different, the session naturally more.

References:

Phoenix.com - It's raining at the time of Qingming! What are the special customs in Chongqing?