Tomb-Sweeping Day's custom diet and activities: eating green balls; Eat eggs and paint eggs; Go for an outing; Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship; Insert willow, etc.

1. Eating Qing Tuan

At first, the custom of eating Qing Tuan in Tomb-Sweeping Day was only popular in Jiangnan, but with the inheritance of food culture and the spread of food, it gradually made many places have the custom of eating Qing Tuan. Of course, different regions have different names for the Youth League, some are called "Qingming Zun", some are called "Ai Zan" or "Ai Tuan".

2. Eating eggs and painting eggs

This is from ancient allusions. As early as the pre-Qin period, there was a clear stipulation that fire was forbidden in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Faced with a temporary fire ban, people have no food to eat, so they can only prepare food that can withstand being put away before Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, and boiled eggs and some steamed buns are the best dry food.

Tomb-Sweeping Day eats eggs, which symbolizes a happy reunion, many children, and the offspring of the new generation. It also symbolizes the meaning of breaking out of its shell and getting ahead, and there is even a beautiful implication of the saying that "Tomb-Sweeping Day eats an egg and has good health all year round".

Now, the custom of painting eggs has been passed down in some places, that is, before the eggs are cooked in the pot, they are painted with beautiful colors, which is also called "colorful eggs".

3. Go for an outing

The Chinese nation has had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming since ancient times. At the turn of mid-spring and late spring, Tomb-Sweeping Day is full of spring, and everything is full of vitality. At this time, it is a traditional custom that has been passed down since ancient times to pay homage to ancestors and go hiking. This seasonal folk activity, outing, has a long history in China, and its source is the ancient custom of welcoming the Spring Festival, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations.

4. Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship

Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship is the center of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs. In some places, tomb sweeping in Qingming Festival is called "sweeping the mountain", "worshiping the Qing Dynasty" or "worshiping the mountain" and "hanging relatives", etc., out of respect for ancestors, or the rhetorical habit of "getting rid of evil words and calling it beauty". For example, Tomb-Sweeping Day visits the grave, which is called going to the grave in the north, and the coastal area in the south is called "worshipping the mountain" to avoid the words "grave" and "tomb".

5. Insert willow

There is a folk custom of inserting willow in Tomb-Sweeping Day and China. Some experts believe that the custom of inserting willows is to commemorate Shennong, the founder of farming who taught the people to cultivate crops. In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to forecast the weather. There is an old saying, "The willow branches are green and rainy; The saying that the wicker is dry and the sky is sunny.

willow has a strong vitality. As the saying goes, "If you have the intention to plant flowers, you will not grow them." Wicker lives when it is inserted into the soil, where it is inserted, where it lives, and where it is inserted every year, it is shaded everywhere.