Chingming handbook can write what content as follows:
1, ancestor sweeping
People in accordance with local customs, bring fruit and food, paper money and other items to the graveyard, will be placed in front of the graveyard offerings, will be incinerated, for the grave to add some new soil, and then kowtow to worship in front of the tomb, can pack up the offerings and go home. the offerings and return home.
2, folding willow to give goodbye
Since the Han Dynasty, people have gradually formed the custom of folding willow to give goodbye, to wish each other peace, because the "willow" and "stay" resonance, so also to take the meaning of the love, to stay.
At the same time, I hope that the parting of friends and relatives, to the other side of the country is also as far from the branch of the willow, can quickly take root and germinate, survive everywhere, these are all sent to the friends and relatives of the good wishes of the feelings.
Ching Ming Festival food:
1, eat hair cake
Ching Ming Festival people like to steam hair cake to eat, hair cake made of sticky rice milled rice paste steamed, hair cake is important not less tasty, but to see if the steam enough "hair", enough "high! "
The rice cake is used to send the good wishes of "fortune" and "high rise".
2, eat green dumplings
The green dumplings are snacks from the south of the Yangtze River, is the most festive food on the Qingming Festival. It is a kind of Qingming Festival before and after the mugwort, beat out the juice mixed into the glutinous rice flour, and then made into a ball, because the ball is made of turquoise, so the name of the green dumplings.
3, children's relatives to send each other mochi
In some areas of Zhejiang Province, still retains the custom of children's relatives to send each other mochi. Children's relatives to send each other mochi, is a ritual before the marriage, the male side is usually sent to the female side before the Qingming Festival mochi, meaning that the next Qingming Festival will come to marry the new daughter-in-law over the door.
After their daughters were married off, the parents of the women's family, again before the Ching Ming Festival to the men's family to send the mochi, which means that the blessing of the two small mouths of the days of glutinous nourishment, sweetness, happiness and fulfillment.