Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs originated from the custom of forbidding fire in some areas in the pre-Qin period, and forbidding eating cold food for many days. Hard-boiled eggs are the best food reserves to survive this period.
The implication of Tomb-Sweeping Day eating eggs
Eating eggs originated in the ancient Shangsi Festival. In order to get married and have children, people cook eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs and other eggs and paint them in various colors, which are called "multicolored eggs". They came to the river, threw colorful eggs into the river, and then washed them down with water, so that people downstream could grab and eat them, and then they could get pregnant. Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day now symbolizes satiety.
Spring is the season when everything breeds, which coincides with the meaning of eggs "breeding life". Eggs contain almost all the nutrients needed by the human body. In addition, during the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day, people traveled in succession, and boiled eggs are an ideal food that is easy to carry, which makes eggs a holiday food in Tomb-Sweeping Day.