On the Qingming Festival in the north, people eat Qingming snails, noodles, cold sorghum rice, dumplings, jujube cakes, ink-egg eggs, cold pastries and other delicacies.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Outing Festival and the Qingming Festival, falls at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has both natural and cultural connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in custom content or details across the country. Although festival activities vary from place to place, tomb-sweeping, ancestor worship, and outings are the same basic etiquette and customs themes.

In addition to outings and tomb-sweeping, the customs of the Qingming Festival have also absorbed a series of customary sports activities such as swinging, Cuju, playing polo, and planting willows in the historical development.

Sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival is a "tomb sacrifice", which is called "respect for the ancestors". After completing the sacrificial ceremony, the sacrificial food is eaten.

In 1935, the government of the Republic of China designated April 5 as the national holiday Qingming Festival. On December 7, 2007, the 198th executive meeting of the State Council passed a decision to amend the "National Holidays and Anniversary Holiday Measures", stipulating that "there will be a one-day holiday during Qingming Festival.