Eat shepherd's purse boiled eggs, five-color glutinous rice, wormwood Baba, sweet wine cake, garlic Baba, chicken excrement rattan, etc. Shangsi Festival is the most important festival held in ancient times. People go to the water to bathe together, which is called "Zan Zan". Since then, traditional customs such as offering sacrifices and feasting, meandering water and having a spring outing in the countryside have been added.

Boiled eggs with shepherd's purse

Since ancient times, there has been the custom of boiling eggs with shepherd's purse on the third day of the third lunar month. Shepherd's purse, also known as wild shepherd's purse, wild shepherd's purse, nurse's grass and chicken's heart vegetable, is a whole herb with roots of Cruciferae shepherd's purse, which grows in fields, roadsides and gardens and is cultivated all over the country. It is a traditional good vegetable with the same origin of medicine and food. It is said that it is not only nutritious, but also has a high medicinal value. There are folk sayings that "the shepherd's purse is a magic pill on the third day of March (the lunar calendar)" and "the shepherd's purse is an elixir in spring", which shows the medicinal effect of boiled eggs with shepherd's purse.

Five-color glutinous rice

Every year on the third day of the third lunar month or in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi generally make five-color glutinous rice. The Zhuang family loves five-color glutinous rice very much and regards it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest. The five-color glutinous rice is colorful, bright and attractive; Natural pigments are beneficial and harmless to human body, each with its own fragrance and flavor.

Crown daisy rice cake

It is a traditional folk custom to eat Artemisia sphagnum on March 3 of the lunar calendar every year in Jiangnan and Jianghuai areas. According to the story handed down by the grandparents, "March 3rd" is a festival for all the dead. On this day, everyone eats wormwood cake in order to commemorate the dead and wish everyone a long and healthy life without being invaded by diseases and evils.

Sweet wine cake

It is a traditional custom of Zhuang people in Guangxi to eat sweet wine and cake on March 3. When Zhuang people in Guangxi go up the mountain to sweep the grave on March 3, they should not only take sweet wine and cake as a sacrifice to their ancestors, but also eat it themselves after the worship, which is said to be tainted with good fortune.

Xiaosuanba

Every year on the third day of the third lunar month in Tomb-Sweeping Day, there is a custom of eating garlic in Fanqu, Taihu County, Anhui Province. According to the old people, in the old days, it was said that the third day of the third lunar month was Ghost Festival. On this evening, wild ghosts came out to wander. Small garlic is pungent and warm. Eating small garlic can dispel cold, kill insects and drive away ghosts and demons.

Paederia henryi

Eating chicken excrement and rattan on the third day of the third lunar month is a traditional custom of local people in Beihai, Guangxi. Leaves and rice are mixed and ground into powder, and then pieces of shredded chicken and rattan noodles are made. The soup made of this noodles is fragrant and sweet, and it is a special snack that local people like. According to legend, the third day of the third lunar month is the birthday of Xuanyuan Huangdi, the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation, and Beihai people commemorate this great man.