I know there are many customs of the Cold Food Festival, and every place has different customs. For example:
1. Dietary customs
The food in the Cold Food Festival includes: cold porridge, cold noodles, cold paste, green rice, etc. Offerings for the Cold Food Festival: face swallow, snake rabbit, etc. Drinks include: spring wine I, fresh tea, clear spring and sweet water, etc. Most of these are used to sacrifice rabbits, which means looking forward to the prosperity of the country.
2. The custom of inserting willows
The symbol of the Vitamin Cold Food Festival was originally meant to miss the political clarity pursued by Jiezitui. There is also a saying among the people that "the Qingming Festival does not wear a willow, and the beauty becomes a white head".
3, outing custom
Cold Food Festival is also called spring outing, which began in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital", the scene of hiking is recorded: on Qingming Day, people go hiking, and there are tens of thousands of tourists, riders, walkers and tourists.
4. Poetry-reciting custom
During the Cold Food Festival, literati either miss their loved ones, or express their feelings by taking advantage of the scenery, and they are full of inspiration, or they are full of poetry. According to The Whole Tang Poetry, famous people such as Tang Xuanzong, Du Fu, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan wrote poems about the Cold Food Festival, which enriched the life and entertainment of literati.
5. Worship and grave-sweeping custom
Worship and grave-sweeping on the Cold Food Festival was regarded as a "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty. Every family goes to their ancestral graves, offering sacrifices, adding soil and hanging paper money. Then they scatter swallows and snake rabbits on the top of the graves, roll them down, wear them with willow branches or pimples, and put them in the high place in the house, which means to be stained with the virtue of their ancestors.