2. It is said that the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the ceremony of "offering sacrifices to tombs" by ancient emperors, and later people followed suit, and it has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation to offer sacrifices to ancestors and sweep graves on this day.
3. The hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian attaches great importance to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Overseas Chinese living abroad must send money home for the important festivals in Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and New Year's Eve, so as to prepare the expenses needed for the festivals. Prepare a rich five-flavor banquet bowl at home to pay homage to the ancestors' gods, chefs and foundation masters. Among the dishes, there must be all kinds of ingredients needed for "moistening cake dishes". At noon, an ancestor worship ceremony was held in our own hall. As usual, burn incense, light candles, burn gold and shoot. After the ceremony, the plates were removed and the family ate together. The main recipe is "moist cake dishes". Pour all kinds of vegetables into the pot, mix and heat, then spread the pancakes, pour in the hot sauce, and add Enteromorpha, peanut powder and vegetables. Then, hold a roll in both hands and chew it slowly, so as not to have a flavor.
4. After eating "Runbing Dishes", except for the old, the weak, the sick and the baby, the whole family went to the grave-sweeping. Every household has prepared fruits, incense, gold paper, candles, firecrackers and a lot of five-color paper money, in addition to vermicelli red pigment. Originally used red paint, because the raw materials are difficult to get, now use red paint instead. Meanwhile, with brushes, the whole family went to the cemetery.
5. When you arrive at the cemetery, first weed out the weeds around the cemetery and clean the grave. So the family went to work separately. Some people paint their ancestors' names on the gravestones with red pens, some burn incense and light candles, and put fruits on them, while children like to present paper money in front of the gravestones. The so-called paper money is cut into pages about four inches wide and six inches long with thin glossy paper, and then three or four lines of corrugated curves are chiseled in the middle with corrugated steel chisel. The children are pressed on the graves one by one, and the colorful paper money makes people look like blooming flowers from a distance, which makes the usually desolate cemetery suddenly red and green, adding a gorgeous scene.