1. Worship the mountains and eat mugs

In Dongguan, sweeping graves during the Qingming period is called "worshipping the mountains", which is also called "hanging paper". When it comes to sacrifices, Tomb-Sweeping Day is particular about apples, sugar cane and suckling pigs. Hakka people have different opinions about eating mugs in Tomb-Sweeping Day, while in Fenggang, Dongguan, it is said that because there are many thunderstorms during the Qingming Festival, they are not afraid of being struck by lightning after eating mugs. Some people say that children will be better after eating mugwort.

2. Clear the tomb

Traditional Guangzhou people have always attached importance to sweeping graves during the Qingming period, and have the custom of "clearing the tomb" on the day of the Qingming period. "Walking clear" is different from hiking, which is an outing, and "walking clear" is a group of people agreeing to go to the grave together on that day.

According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring wine, fruit, paper money and other things to the cemetery, offer food to their relatives' graves, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some new branches and insert them in the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the wine and food.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping in Jiangmen is a family-based or family-based gathering festival, so there are also some special foods, such as chicken excrement vine cake, egg cake for ancestor worship, and Enping sesame cake. According to the owner of the local pastry shop in Jiangmen, the chicken dung vine cake is the most suitable to eat during the Qingming period. It has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic substances, and because it is only 5 cents, it can be said that it is cheap and good, and it can sell thousands of cakes every day before and after the Qingming period.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the time when willows sprout and smoke green. In Jiangmen, there is a custom of folding willows and inserting willows. Many local citizens will buy a bunch of willows and hang them on their doors. Qingming is also an important solar term for agricultural production. The agricultural proverb says, "Before and after Qingming, point melons and plant beans." By Qingming, the temperature is getting warmer and the rainfall is increasing, which is a good time for local spring ploughing and spring planting in Jiangmen.