Linfen Qingming Festival Customs

It is customary to visit the graves three days before the Qingming Festival in the west of Linfen River:

The first day to visit the new graves; the second day to visit the old graves; and the third day to visit the old graves; and the third day to visit the old graves is usually not.

If the old man died less than 100 days ago, it is customary to visit the grave on the day of Qingming Festival.

Most places in the southwestern part of the mountain do not burn incense or paper at the graves. Northwest Jin Hequ and other places, the old custom of going to the grave with wine and food, sacrifices after the ancestors, they will be in the graveyard diet, meaning that with the ancestors *** drink *** food. Jinnan Wenxi and other places, the graves should be embedded with jujube cake rolled around on the mound, the legend is that the dead old man scratching. Jinzhong Jiexiu and other places, the grave offerings for the cake, shaped like a coiled snake.

According to the examination, the origin of the Qingming Festival actually has nothing to do with the jiezi push, Qingming as a spring festival, far before the Zhou Dynasty has been determined. China's vast territory, pre-Qin when the north and south customs are different, many festivals around the time in the literature little recorded. In the evolution of the historical development of traditional festivals will be attached to a legend as the "origin", but the actual examination, these claims are far later than the birth of the festival, is the construction of the later generations.