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.

Step 2 sweep the grave

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, on the 4th-6th day of the solar calendar, grave-sweeping activities are usually carried out from the first 10 day to the last 10 day in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a fixed ritual theme.

Step 3 go for an outing

The Chinese nation has had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming since ancient times. Outing, a seasonal folk activity, has a long history in China, and its source is the ancient Spring Festival custom of farming sacrifice, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations.

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Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in other regions:

1, Anhui

Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in different areas of Anhui Province are different. In Guichi County, Tomb-Sweeping Day, women make rice cocoons to worship silkworms and pray for a good harvest. Jingxian County is called Tomb-Sweeping Day; Shouchun Qingming, every family inserted willow, hanging paper money on the grave tree, called wild ghost; Every household in Hefei is used to hanging willow branches above the door, offering sacrifices to the deceased ancestors in the cemetery and going for an outing in the suburbs.

2. Hainan

Hainanese also have a folk tradition of reciting ancestral teachings and family rules when they worship their ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are ancestral temples all over Hainan, and many sacrificial activities will be held during the Qingming Festival. In these sacrificial activities, there are often eight-tone accompaniment, chanting and eulogizing the merits of Joan's father. In the process of folk sacrifice, it is necessary to recite the norms of the ancestral training family, and these carols, ancestral training and clan rules are all wonderful songs.

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