There are different proverbs in different places. It is rare to have sunny days in Qingming, and it is rare to have cloudy days in Grain Rain (Lu)

Before it rains in Qingming, the spring rain will be frequent (Lu)

Before it rains in Qingming, the lowlands are good for farming (black)

Qingming is not afraid of sunny days, and Grain Rain is not afraid of rain (black)

When it rains in Qingming, a sorghum hits a liter (black) < On and off for three months (Guangxi)

Clear and sunny, Grain Rain rainy (Jiangxi)

Clear and snowy, Grain Rain frosted (East China, Central China, South China, Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau)

Clear and rainy Huangmei (Jiangsu, Hubei)

Clear and rainy, with a northwest wind blowing, and it was dry and windy in that year (Ning The north wind is clear, and there is less summer water (Fujian)

It is clear to scrape the soil for forty-five days (Jiangsu)

It is clear to dust, and the loess is buried in people (Shanxi and Inner Mongolia)

It is clear and cold, and it is a good year (Liaoning and Hebei)

Before the rain hits Qingming, the spring rain will be frequent (Shandong)

It is clear and foggy for one day.

there is no need to be busy in Qingming in March, and the seedlings will be planted early in Qingming in February.

There is rain in Qingming in the spring equinox, and there is no way to go when it rains in Qingming.

it rains in spring until Qingming, and there is no sunny day when it rains in Qingming.

The spring equinox never stops raining, and there are fine days around Qingming Festival.

A rain around Qingming Festival is better than a scholar's success.

it's sunny in spring, and it's sunny and rainy until Qingming.

If the Qingming wind starts from the south, it is predicted that Tian He will have a good harvest.

The clear fish on the high plateau, and the clear rain fish on the low ground, died.

Qingming is busy planting wheat, while Grain Rain is busy planting fields.

Don't insert willows in Qingming Festival, and turn yellow after death. Dogs don't wear willows in Qingming Festival, and the beauty turns white.

before and after Qingming festival, order melons and plant beans.

there is no better way to plant trees than to be clear.

You can't plant a tree in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but you can't let Chunxiao get it if you plant a pine tree.

Qingming Festival and Grain Rain are connected, so don't delay soaking cultivation. 1. Legends and stories about the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day: According to legend, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, and Xiang Yu, the overlord of the Western Chu, finally won the world after several rounds of war.

When he returned to his hometown with honor, he wanted to pay homage to his parents' graves. However, due to years of war, the graves were covered with weeds, and the tombstones were staggered, some were broken, and some were broken, so the words on the tombstones could not be recognized.

Liu Bang was very sad. Although his subordinates also helped him search all the tombstones, he still couldn't find his parents' graves until dusk.

Finally, Liu Bang took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, tore it into many small pieces by hand, and held it tightly in his hand. Then he prayed to God, "My parents are alive in heaven, and now the wind is blowing so hard, I will throw these small pieces of paper into the air. If the paper falls in one place, the wind will not blow, and it will be my parents' grave. "Say that finish Liu Bang threw the paper into the air, and sure enough, a piece of paper fell on a grave, no matter how the wind blows, Liu Bang ran over and took a closer look at the vague tombstone, and sure enough, he saw his parents' names engraved on it.

Liu Bang was so happy that he immediately asked someone to renovate his parents' graves, and from then on, Tomb-Sweeping Day must visit his parents' graves every year.

Later, the common people, like Liu Bang, went to Tomb-Sweeping Day every year to pay homage to their ancestors' graves, and pressed some pieces of paper on the graves with small clods to show that the graves were visited.

Second, related customs

Tomb-Sweeping Day falls on April 5th or 6th in the national calendar. Because it falls on the 15th day after the vernal equinox in the 24 solar terms, it is not fixed on April 5th in the national calendar, nor is it determined by the lunar calendar. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival, was a national holiday designated by the government in 24 years of the Republic of China. China has a long history of offering sacrifices to ancestors. As early as ancient times, emperors and princes offered sacrifices to ancestral temples, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius offered sacrifices to tombs, all of which were unique to nobles. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, when the aristocratic system came to an end, it was the custom for ordinary people to sacrifice to their ancestors' graves.

Generally, tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival can be divided into two ceremonies:

(1) Hanging paper, also known as "pressing paper", usually uses stones or bricks to press rectangular yellow and white paper or red, yellow, blue, white and black five-color paper on the grave to show that future generations have paid homage to the ancestral grave. (2) Cultivating graves is an activity to decorate ancestral graves and worship ancestors. Weeds on ancestral graves are cleared and trimmed once a year, and then some sacrificial rites, wine, vegetables, fruits and vegetables are prepared as offerings. Generally, sacrifices are placed in front of the grave and the back soil, including leeks, eggs, squid, sweet rice, taro, bamboo shoots and so on. Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China. Because the twenty-four solar terms objectively reflect the changes in temperature, rainfall and phenology throughout the year, the ancient working people used them to arrange agricultural activities. Huainanzi? Astronomical training "says:" On the 15th day after the vernal equinox, when the bucket refers to B, the Qingming wind will come. " According to "Questions at the Age of 1", "Everything grows clean and bright at this time. So it is called Qingming. " As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and spring planting. Therefore, there are agricultural proverbs that "before and after Qingming, point melons and plant beans" and "planting trees, it is better than Qingming". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production.

However, Qingming Festival, as a festival, is different from pure solar terms. Solar terms are the symbol of phenological changes and seasonal order in China, while festivals contain certain customs and activities and some commemorative significance.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival for offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most of the Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping 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 a few green branches and insert them in the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the wine and go home. The poem Qingming by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "It rains in abundance during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask the local people where to buy wine and worry? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Write the special atmosphere of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is between April 4th and 6th every year according to the solar calendar, which is the season when the spring is bright and the vegetation is green, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing (called outing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities.

Up to today, the custom of worshipping ancestors and mourning the dead relatives in Tomb-Sweeping Day is still very popular.

The origin and legend of Tomb-Sweeping Day:

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,5 years. Qingming Festival is a very important solar term at first. As soon as Qingming Festival arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and spring planting. Therefore, there is a saying that "before and after Qingming Festival, melons and beans are planted". The agricultural proverb "Planting trees is better than Qingming". Later, as the days of Qingming and cold food approached, and cold food was the day when people banned fire to sweep graves, gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name of Qingming and a custom of Qingming. On Qingming, no fireworks were used, only cold food was eaten.

There is a legend about cold food:

According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Jin Xiangong's concubine, Li Ji, set a poisonous plot to kill Prince Shen Sheng in order to let her son Xi Qi succeed to the throne, and Shen Sheng was forced to commit suicide. Shen Sheng's younger brother, Zhong Er, fled into exile to escape the scourge. During his exile, Zhong Er suffered humiliation. Originally, most of the courtiers who went out with him went out one after another. There are only a few loyal people who have been following him. One of them is called meson push. On one occasion, Zhong Er fainted from hunger. In order to save Zhong Er, Jiezitui cut a piece of meat from his leg, cooked it with fire and gave it to Zhong Er to eat. Nineteen years later, Zhong Er returned to China and became a monarch, namely Jin Wengong, one of the famous five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period.

After Jin Wengong came to power, he greatly rewarded those courtiers who shared his joys and sorrows, except for the meson push. Someone pleaded for mesons in front of Jin Wengong. Jin Wengong suddenly remembered the past, feeling guilty, and immediately sent someone to ask meson to take the court to be rewarded as an official. However, after several trips, the meson could not be pushed. Jin Wengong had to go to please. However, when Jin Wengong came to the meson pusher's house, he saw the door closed. Jiezitui didn't want to see him, and had already hid in Mianshan (now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province) with his mother on his back. Jin Wengong asked his body-guard to search Mianshan, but he couldn't find it. So, someone had an idea, saying, it's better to set Yamakaji free, set fire on three sides, and leave one side behind, and mesons will come out by themselves when the fire starts. Jin Wengong ordered Yamakaji to be promoted. Unexpectedly, the fire burned for three days and three nights. After the fire was extinguished, mesons were not pushed out after all. Looking up the mountain, the mother and the son were holding a charred willow tree and were dead. Jin Wengong looked at meson push's body and wept for a while. Then he buried the body and found that meson push's back was blocked with a willow tree hole, which seemed to have something. When I took it out, it turned out to be a piece of skirt with a poem in blood inscribed on it:

I wish my Lord would always be clear.

it's better to be a ghost under Liu Xia than to accompany you as a remonstrator.

If you have me in your heart, remember my introspection.

I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, and I am diligent and clear.

Jin Wengong hid the bloody book in his sleeve. Then meson tui and his mother were buried under the charred willow tree. To commemorate Jietui, Jin Wengong ordered Mianshan to be changed to "Jieshan", and an ancestral temple was built on the mountain, and the day when Yamakaji was released was designated as the Cold Food Festival, telling the whole country that fireworks were forbidden on this day every year, and only cold food was eaten.

When he left, he cut a section of charred willow and made a pair of clogs in the palace. He looked at it every day and sighed, "What a pity." "The first step" is the name of the ancient people's subordinates to respect each other between their superiors or peers, which is said to come from this.

in the second year, Jin Wengong led his ministers and went hiking in plain clothes to pay homage, expressing his condolences. Walking to the grave, I saw the dead old willow tree resurrected, with thousands of green branches, dancing in the wind. Jin Wengong looked at the resurrected old willow as if he had seen a meson push. He walked up to him respectfully, pinched a branch lovingly, braided a circle and put it on his head. After the sacrifice, Jin Wengong named the resurrected old willow "Qingming Willow" and named it Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In the future, Jin Wengong often took the bloody book with him as a memorial to spur him to be in power. He is diligent and clear-cut, makes great efforts to govern the country well.

Since then, the people of the State of Jin have been able to live and work in peace and contentment, and they are very nostalgic for Jietui, who has made meritorious deeds and is not seeking wealth. On the day of his death, fireworks are forbidden to commemorate him. It is also made of flour and jujube paste, kneaded into the shape of a swallow, strung together with willows, inserted in the door, and summoned his soul. This thing is called "pushing the swallow" (also called the push of the intermediary). Since then, cold food and Qingming have become grand festivals for people all over the country. Whenever there is cold food, people don't make a fire to cook, but only eat cold food. In the north, people only eat cold food prepared in advance, such as jujube cakes and wheat cakes. In the south, it is mostly green balls and glutinous rice sugar lotus roots. Every Qingming Festival, people put wicker into a circle and put wicker branches in front of and behind the house to show their nostalgia.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs:

Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are rich and interesting. Apart from banning fires and sweeping graves, there are also a series of customs and sports activities such as hiking, swinging, cuju, playing polo and inserting willows. According to legend, this is because Tomb-Sweeping Day wants to ban cold food and fire. In order to prevent cold food and cold meals from hurting people, we all take part in some sports activities to exercise. Therefore, this festival is a distinctive festival, with both sad tears to sweep the new grave and laughter for an outing.

Swing

This is the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day in ancient China. Swing, which means pulling the leather rope and moving. Its history is very old. It was first called Qianqiu, and later it was changed to a swing to avoid taboos. In ancient times, swings were made of branches of trees and tied with ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Playing swing can not only improve health, but also cultivate courage, which is loved by people, especially children.

Cuju

Juju is a kind of rubber ball, the leather of the ball is made, and the inside of the ball is stuffed with wool. Cuju is to play football with your feet. This is a popular game in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to legend, it was invented by the Yellow Emperor, with the original purpose of training warriors.

outing

is also called spring outing. In ancient times, it was called tanchun and xunchun. March is clear, spring returns to the earth, and nature presents a vibrant scene everywhere, which is a good time for an outing. The folk in our country have long maintained the habit of going for an outing in Qingming.

Planting trees

Before and after Qingming Festival, young trees are planted with high survival rate and rapid growth. Therefore, since ancient times, China has the habit of planting trees in Qingming. Some people even call Tomb-Sweeping Day Arbor Day. The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day. In 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress stipulated that March 12th every year was Arbor Day in China. This is of great significance to mobilizing people of all ethnic groups in China to actively carry out activities to green the motherland.

Flying kites

is also a favorite activity in Qingming Festival. During the Qingming Festival, people not only put it on during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of small colored lanterns is hung under a kite or on a wind-stable stay line, like a flashing star, which is called a "magic lamp". In the past, some people put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to themselves.