The customs of Qingming Festival are as follows: 1. Customs of Qingming Festival in Zhejiang Qingming Festival is one of the important traditional festivals in my country. There is a popular saying among the people in Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province that "Qingming Festival is as big as the New Year".

Tongxiang is the main producing area of ??sericulture in the south of the Yangtze River. Rich silkworm customs are spread in its countryside, and rolling silkworm flowers during the Qingming Festival is one of the most representative activities.

In Huzhou, Zhejiang, every family wraps rice dumplings during the Qingming Festival, which can be used as offerings at graves or as dry food for outings.

Farmers have the habit of eating snails during the Qingming Festival. On this day, they use a needle to pick out the snail meat and cook it, which is called "picking green".

After eating, throw the snail shells on the roof. It is said that the rolling sound on the roof tiles can scare away mice, which is beneficial to silkworm rearing after the Qingming Festival.

On Tomb Sweeping Day, there is also a social gathering.

Families from the same ancestral hall gather together for dinner.

For families without ancestral halls, the grandsons from each house of the same great ancestor usually gather together for dinner.

2. The traditional Qingming Festival in Beijing is the "Cold Food Festival", also known as the "Fire Exchange Festival". It means that every household has burned the furnaces all winter. After the spring comes, the fire must be put out and cleaned up. Therefore, the fire at home ceases for a day or two and only cold food can be eaten.

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Therefore, in the old days, many families in Beijing would prepare food for the next day on the day before the Cold Food Festival, mostly snacks. This gradually evolved into the Thirteen Specialties of Cold Food in Old Beijing.

What are the Thirteen Jue of Cold Food?

There is a saying that the "Thirteen Secrets of Cold Food" specifically include: Hoof Shaobing, Screw Twist, Twist Rice Noodles, Shredded Ginger Pai Fork, Donkey Roll, Sugar Fire, Ai Wo Wo, Sugar Roll_, Sugar Ear, Pea Yellow, Jiao Ring, Hard

Noodle pastry, sesame sauce pancakes.

Another version of the "Thirteen Wonders of Cold Food": Butter Fried Cake, Screw Rolls, Twist Dumplings, Shredded Ginger Steaks, Donkey Rolling, Sugar Fire, Ai Wo Wo, Noodle Tea, Sugar Ears, Pea Yellow, Jiao Rings, Hard Noodle Pastry

, sesame sauce pancakes.

3. Guangdong’s traditional Qingming Festival customs Guangzhou people have always attached great importance to tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival, and there is a custom of “walking the Qing Dynasty” on the day of the Qingming Festival.

"Xingqing" is different from outing. Outing is an outing, while "Xingqing" means that the whole family agrees to visit the grave together on that day.

According to the old custom, when sweeping the tomb, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of the tomb of their relatives, burn the paper money, cover the tomb with new soil, and break a few green branches to insert on the tomb.

, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the food and wine and go home.

After the Guangzhou people have finished offering sacrifices, they divide the pork, which does not complete the form of worship. The family will take the pork home and stir-fry it with "Qingming buckwheat", the vegetable of the Qingming season.

In addition, people use this "Qingming buckwheat" with some shredded eggs, roasted pork and fried spring rolls to eat. After eating these vegetables and meat, this year's "Xingqing" task is completed.

4. Chongqing Tomb Sweeping Day Customs Chongqing people also have the custom of eating cold food on Tomb Sweeping Day.

In the past, the "Qingming food" when people visited tombs was often hot pot with braised vegetables and cold dishes.

The "Japanese vegetables" inside this kind of pot are made of vermicelli, shredded lettuce, shredded pork (or chicken), and cold spring buds.

Grave sweeping is usually done in the countryside, which is equivalent to a spring outing. A large family will bring cold noodles, wine, vegetables, candies and other food to pay homage to the ancestors, and everyone eats them together, having fun and eating. The happiest thing is

A child now.

At that time, in addition to paper money and incense candles, people would bring paper strings cut from paper and hang them in front of the grave to attract spirits, commonly known as "hanging green".

As the saying goes, "There is white paper hanging on the grave of a child, but there is dog excrement on the grave of a childless child." Whether there is "hanging green paper" has become a symbol of whether a family has successors, whether it is prosperous, and whether the father is kind and the son is filial.

5. Jiangsu Qingming Festival customs Changzhou people will put willow branches and peach blossom branches on the door frames of every house early in the morning during Qingming Festival to use bright red and green to get rid of the evil spirits of the previous year.

Children, on the other hand, weave willow branches into a circular ring and wear it on their heads, or they rub the willow branches with leaves and skin to the top to form a soft "willow ball" that can be shaken.

Some families also place gorgeous peach blossoms on the door knockers under the eaves to signify the arrival of the Qingming Festival and herald spring safely, to ward off evil spirits and bring happiness.

In addition to these, on Tomb Sweeping Day, Changzhou people will eat glutinous rice dumplings without fillings for breakfast.

The big dumplings are made before the Spring Festival, soaked in cold water, and eaten until the Dragon Boat Festival.

On Tomb Sweeping Day, take out the big dumplings, cut them into pieces and fry them in oil. Add sugar or salt according to your taste.

Some families will put some willow leaves in it, which means to add "green".

Changzhou people still have the custom of eating green dumplings during the Qingming Festival. To make green dumplings, they have to go to the roadside in Tiantou to pick the leaves of a wild plant called "green cornel". When they come back, they wash them, knead them into green juice, and filter it.

After boiling, mix with rice flour to make green dumplings.