Tomb-Sweeping Day Holiday Arrangements in 2022
There will be a three-day holiday from Sunday, April 3, 2022 to Tuesday, April 5, 2022, with normal work on Saturday, April 2, 2022.
Dietary customs in different parts of China.
Sichuan Province
In Tomb-Sweeping Day and Sichuan, there is a mass of glutinous rice, which is made of large or small threads and stained with various colors. It is called "Happy Group". In the old days, it was sold all the way to the "Happy Temple" outside the north gate of Chengdu.
Shanxi
Jinzhong area still retains the habit of banning fire the day before Qingming. In many places, after the sacrificial ceremony is completed, food will be sacrificed. When people in southern Shanxi crossed Tomb-Sweeping Day, they used to steam big steamed buns with white flour, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle, coiled into dragons outside, and an egg tied in the middle of the dragon's body, named "Zifu". It is necessary to steam a big "blessing" to symbolize family reunion and happiness. When going to the grave, the "Zifu" is usually dedicated to the ancestors and shared by the whole family after sweeping the grave.
Shandong (province)
Jimo eats eggs and cold cakes, while Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Long Island eat eggs and cold sorghum rice. It is said that if not, there will be hail. Taian eats cold pancakes and rolls bitter vegetables. It is said that his eyes are bright.
Zhoushan
Lao Dinghai's grave-sweeping sacrifice has a special feature. Many dishes are cold dishes, as well as Qingming special snacks-green cakes and striped cakes, which can be eaten cold. After the ceremony, the children who look after the grave should be given "mashed money" (mashed green cakes are also round and diamond). After going to the grave, I have to make "Qingming soup rice" when I go home.
Taiwan Province Province, China
The custom of people sweeping graves in Taiwan Province Province can be roughly divided into two types: one is general grave sweeping, and the rituals and sacrifices are relatively simple, and most of them are just rice cakes, cakes and cakes; The second is to repair ancestral graves, and the sacrificial ceremony is quite grand. Sacrificial ceremonies generally include all kinds of sacrificial gifts, twelve kinds of vegetables, cakes and so on. When sweeping the grave, you must place "tomb paper" around the grave. There are small stones on every piece of paper, and a pile must be placed on the tombstone. This ceremony, commonly known as "hanging paper", is money for ancestors. If it is to repair the tomb, that is, to repair the ancestral grave, the whole family gathers in front of the grave to eat red eggs, and the eggshells are scattered on the cemetery, which contains the auspicious meaning of metabolism and endless life. In the rural areas of Taiwan Province Province, a group of children came to beg after each grave-sweeping. The more people come, the more developed the family will be in the future, and the owner is willing to give the children "hair" or money.
Shanghai
According to the old custom in Shanghai, steamed cakes for sacrifice should be put on wicker and dried and stored. When they come in the long summer, they will be fried and given to the children. It is said that eating it in summer won't make you sick. Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating dumplings. Mix Bromus inermis juice with glutinous rice to make the green juice and rice flour blend with each other, then wrap it with stuffing such as bean paste and jujube paste, and put it in a steamer with reed leaves as the bottom. Steamed balls are green in color and fragrant, which is the most distinctive seasonal food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are also some people in Shanghai, Tomb-Sweeping Day, who love to eat peach blossom porridge and fish with knives when sweeping graves and having family dinners.
Is there any special food in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
Zituiyan
In the northern festival food, there is a kind of seed push swallow, named after meson push. In the Song Dynasty, people made swallows out of flour and jujube paste, strung them with wicker and hung them on the door to summon the soul of meson push, so they called them Zituiyan. Yulin in northern Shaanxi and Tomb-Sweeping Day in Yan 'an push steamed buns, also called old steamed buns, which are as big as half a catty to a catty like the helmets of ancient military commanders. Eggs or red dates are wrapped inside, with a top and flowers on the top. Flower cotton is a Four Treasures of the Study made of swallows, insects, snakes, rabbits or flour. This is for men. And women eat long shuttle buns, and unmarried women eat ground buns. Children eat noodles such as swallows, snakes and tigers, and boys like tiger buns best. This custom is still circulating today.
Youth league; Sweet green rice ball
Among the seasonal foods in the south, eating green balls from Jiangsu and Zhejiang is very distinctive. According to legend, Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was chased by the Qing army, so he dressed up as a farmer to drive cattle and plow the fields, only to escape the pursuit of the Qing army. But the Qing soldiers set up troops in the village to search. He couldn't go into the village, but he was so hungry that he asked Zhang San, a villager, to find him food. When Zhang San saw a brainwave of wormwood, he boiled wormwood, added glutinous rice, steamed green dumplings and gave them to Li Xiucheng. Cai Li is full. When it spread, it became a new food in the Qingming Festival. Later, there were many ways to make it, and it was more delicious. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, Qingming often eats red disasters.
Wet the cake
Eating wet cakes in southern Fujian is also called spring rolls and spring cakes. The method is to cut green vegetables such as bean sprouts, leeks, celery, carrots, dried beans, shredded pork and so on. As a filling, powder such as sugar powder and seaweed crisp is sprinkled and rolled into a tube.
Sazi
The real name of cold weapon originated in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Sprinkling seeds is fried pasta, which is crisp and delicious, and some sesame seeds are better. In Qi Shu Yao Min, it is said that this is a kind of rice cake. This kind of food still exists among Uighurs and Hui people in the south, north and northwest.
Qingming snail
In the south, snails were the most plump before breeding in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is known as "a snail is worth a goose in Tomb-Sweeping Day". Eating snail meat in Tomb-Sweeping Day is called picking green. After eating, throw the snail shell on the roof, saying that the rolling sound energy scared away the mice and was convenient for sericulture. You can stir-fry with shells, or you can cook and pick out snail meat for cold salad or stir-fry.
Preserve eggs
Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day is called saving eggs. There are generally two kinds of eggs: one is egg painting, in which eggs and duck eggs are cooked, and madder juice is used as dye to depict flowers on eggshells. A few days later, when the eggshell was peeled off, blue flower patterns appeared on the protein, which was really beautiful. The other is egg carving, in which eggs and duck eggs are cooked, then a pattern is drawn on the eggshell with a pen, then the whole egg is hollowed out with a knife, and then the egg white and yolk are taken out in turn. The exquisite degree of its carving is amazing, and it can be eaten and seen.
Where does Tomb-Sweeping Day go to play in Luoyang?
1: Shen _ Guzhen
Shen _ Ancient Town is located in the remnant vein of Funiu Mountain, with beautiful mountains and rivers. There are many places of interest in the territory, including Lingquan Temple, Huaxilou, Zushi Temple, Dengyuzhai and Junyao Site. China, a famous historical and cultural town with more than 5,000 years of ceramic culture accumulation, is known as the only "living ancient town" in China and the first batch of characteristic towns in China.
2. Taishan Village, xinzheng city
Taishan Village Scenic Area is located in longhu town, Xinzheng, with an altitude of about 312m, and belongs to hilly area. Its Taishui River flows around, waterfalls in gullies flow through, and flowing water gurgles, which adds spirituality to the scenic spot and forms a beautiful scenery surrounded by mountains and rivers. Due to the special geographical location and climatic conditions, Taishan Village is suitable for forest growth. Thousands of plants grow here, and the forest coverage rate is over 85%. In addition, locust trees have been growing for thousands of years.
3: sanxiang town
Sanxiang town, the first ancient town in Han and Tang Dynasties, has beautiful scenery and a long history, and its east village is surrounded by mountains and waters. It is famous for its "Cold Shayun Mountain" and "Tanggong Smoke and Wave Water". Among them, the leaning tower of Pisa in China, Wuhua Temple Tower, has been magnificent for thousands of years. It is also the hometown of Li He, a famous poet in Tang Dynasty. Many talented people have sung wine here, which is very interesting.
4. Chongdugou Village in Luoyang
Chongdugou Village has the reputation of "the first village of farmhouse hotels in China". Because Liu Xiuer, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, crossed Yishui here, got rid of Wang Mang's pursuit and achieved the imperial career, he was named as the royal family. There are three scenic spots in Chongdugou. One must be water, and hundreds of springs converge into a clear stream in Lanxi. The second is bamboo, and the overwhelming 10,000 mu of bamboo forest has formed a natural gallery. Sanjue is a farmhouse hotel with a strong mountain flavor, which is distributed in the clean stream of the bamboo sea.
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