It is common to put fruit, vegetarian food and drinks as sacrifices. Every place has different customs and habits, and there are no fixed rules. In addition to some common tributes such as fruits and dry goods, there is also the saying of Qingming soup and rice in some places.

Tomb-Sweeping Day cooks soup rice at home, commonly known as "Qingming soup rice", to worship ancestors and keep safe. At that time, the offerings made by every household for soup rice were: bean sprouts fried with tofu, vegetable soup, braised yellow croaker, braised pork and goose.

In addition, a green ball is essential in the sacrifice, because it is a symbol of Qingming. Green ball is a stuffing made by mashing Artemisia argyi leaves, taking juice, kneading with glutinous rice flour, and embedding cowpea paste or white sugar sesame or soybean powder.

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Grave-sweeping time: As for the time of Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, some people said it was "Qingming early, eleven nights", others said it was "seven before eight after", and others said that Tomb-Sweeping Day did not go to the grave the day before.

Some places visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, because married women will come back to visit their parents in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Her brother will entertain her. "Qingming comes early, at eleven o'clock in the evening" means Qingming goes to the grave before 12 and then comes back for dinner.

Go to the grave after lunch 1 1. It is also said that people who visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day usually burn paper in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day or on the same day in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Legend has it that one hundred pieces of paper were burned at that time. Tomb-Sweeping Day should go to the grave earlier, usually before ten o'clock in the morning.