coordinates Chaozhou.

It is more traditional and superstitious, with rich diet and spiritual culture.

what are our traditional customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

1. Eating

Throughout the ages, on the eve of cold food at the New Year's Eve, people in the streets and lanes shouted to sell cold food and snacks, which was deeply favored by hipsters. The tide poem "Qingming Sugar Onion" has the following words: "Peach blossoms are scattered and red, and it is cloudy for five days and windy for one day. I have no choice but to stay in the spring and sell sugar onions in the deep alley. " And "Piao Ye Qingqing Piao Xiang Qing". There are scenes describing cold food in poems.

Chenghai County Records records that in Tomb-Sweeping Day, hipsters eat "pancakes" and "simple and sweet cakes" according to the custom, which not only has the significance of commemorating the ancient custom of meson pushing cold food, but also is a unique seasonal food in Chaozhou.

sugar onion pancake: it is more delicious and healthy than Shandong pancake.

The pancake is divided into two parts: skin and stuffing. Skin is made by mixing refined flour with appropriate amount of warm water, fully stirring and kneading it into a lump, placing it on a frying pan (flat-bottomed iron pan) above the fire, and branding it into round cooked dough sheets, which are as thin as paper. There are two kinds of fillings, salty and sweet, which are made of eggs, meat, liver bacon, mushrooms, bean sprouts, leeks and other clinker. Sugar and maltose are specially processed into "sugar onions" for sweet stuffing. When eating, roll the pancake skin into a cylinder and eat it.

Fructus Aurantii Pubescentis: Those who like matcha food can try it, and they can also eliminate phlegm and damp.

Picking leaves and fruits of Fructus Pubescentis (commonly known as Fructus Pubescentis) and mashing them, poisoning them with rice to powder, and sieving them to obtain powder essence. Puzi tree is a deciduous tree, with oval or oblong leaves, round fruit, which is bigger than mung bean, sweet and nontoxic, and has the effect of eliminating phlegm and relieving qi. When processing, add white sugar and baking powder to the rice flour. Add a proper amount of water, stir evenly and ferment fully, and then put it into ceramic peach-shaped tree seal or plum-shaped tree seal. Put it in a steamer (cooker) and steam it. The naked product sprayed with fragrance is light green, and it becomes a tree with high quality, delicious taste and beautiful color.

wheat crust: Chaozhou pancake

It is made by grinding wheat into wheat flour, fully stirring it with white sugar or brown sugar, and kneading it into a package (called a wheat bun) or a sheet, respectively steaming it in a steamer or frying it in peanut oil on an iron tripod. Wheat is sweet, which can stop polydipsia, dry throat, facilitate urination, stop sweating, nourish liver qi and heart qi.

These three kinds of snacks are mainly used in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the usual red/rat shell snacks are also made on holidays.

2. Sacrifice

Chaozhou is mountainous. Before that, most people were buried in the earth, and there was no special cemetery. Instead, Mr. Feng Shui was invited to see Feng Shui and choose a place to build a tomb. Every Qingming Festival, it is the day when a family goes up the mountain to pay homage to their ancestors. Chaoshan is commonly known as "hanging paper".

Bai Juyi's poem "Cold Food and Wild Hope" in the Tang Dynasty says: "The wind blows paper and money in the wilderness, and the ancient tombs are full of spring grass." Gao Juqing's poem "Qingming Festival" in the Southern Song Dynasty also wrote: "There are many tomb fields in the north and south hills, and the Qingming Festival sacrifices and sweeps are different ..." Because the prohibition of cold food and fire is closely related to Tomb-Sweeping Day's order, hipsters have the custom of going up the mountain to sweep graves and pay homage to their ancestors in Qingming Festival. Since ancient times, people have often called cold food and Qingming Festival, and the folks who sweep graves are generally called "paper passing" (there are "spring paper" and "winter paper" in the tide customs. ) In ancient times, the influx of people went up the mountain to sweep graves on Qingming Festival. Because cold food prohibited fire, they hung paper on graves and tombstones instead of burning paper money to prevent paper money from flying all over the sky, so it was called "hanging paper".

To sweep the grave, the cemetery should be renovated, and the engraved words on the tombstone (commonly known as the word "Makeup Grave Monument") should be carefully filled with silver beads and sand green (red and green paint). It is also necessary to press the yellow and white paper with "earth and mud", etc. These are the relics of ancient customs.

It is worth mentioning that the ancient custom of "banning fire" and "hanging paper" is more consistent with the vigorous promotion of civilized grave sweeping and forest fire prevention.

however, taking pictures is generally not allowed.

3. Go for an outing

Because it's spring, it's just when spring is blooming, chaozhou people will also go for an outing in parks and mountains.

The scenery on the Phoenix Mountain in Chaozhou is beautiful.

the west lake is as blue as a wash.

Xiangzi Bridge in Qingming Festival.

In fact, Chaozhou has beautiful scenery and delicious food. Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only to commemorate our ancestors, but also a day for us to work hard and enjoy the present life. In Chaozhou Qingming, there are sometimes mountain fires to sweep graves. Now, going out for an outing and sending a bunch of flowers have increasingly replaced the previous custom of offering paper money for chickens, ducks and geese.