What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Many places in Hainan still continue the customs handed down, so what will be the custom on this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day? The following is a small series of carefully recommended customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day in Hainan, hoping to help you.

Hainan Customs When Hainan people pay homage to their ancestors during Qingming Festival, there is also a folk tradition of reciting ancestral training and family rules. Fu Cechao, president of Hainan Intangible Culture Research Association, said that the Han people in Hainan are all mainland immigrants. Before the Tang Dynasty, about 20,000 Han people moved to Hainan, and in the Song Dynasty, they moved to about100000, which surged to more than 2 million in the Qing Dynasty. The surname of Jin Qiong is about 100, and there are about 300 ancestors of Jin Qiong. In order to commemorate the ancestor who entered Qiong, later generations have built them in various places. Ancestral temple Many sacrificial activities are held on the occasion of Qingming. In these sacrificial activities, there are often eight-tone accompaniment, chanting and eulogizing the merits of Joan's ancestor.

In the process of folk sacrifice, it is necessary to recite the specifications of the ancestral training family, and these eulogies, ancestral training and clan rules are all wonderful songs. ? Fu Ce-chao recited a small number of three-character sutras of Fu Clan training to reporters. Love the motherland, be filial to parents, be friends and brothers, be with couples, be loyal to relatives, stress unity, be friendly to neighbors, and be careful to make friends. Today, these ancestral songs still have educational significance.

When Hainan people sweep graves, they sacrifice pigs, geese, fish and cakes to burn incense and turn them into treasures. There are also residents with the same surname who catch pigs and pull sheep to sacrifice on the ancestral graves and pray for the prosperity of future generations. There are two kinds of ancestor worship in Qingming Festival, the first is sacrifice? Own ancestors? , with one or several households as a unit, put it in front of the ancestral tablet at home? Three animals? , dry rice and other sacrifices, everyone bowed down. After the sacrifice? Grandfathers? , with dozens or hundreds of households as the unit, all clans with the same surname participate. Take the prepared sacrifices to the graves of ancestors to worship, remove weeds and add new soil.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's custom of going to the grave collectively is gradually failing in Henan, but the custom of going to the grave is still popular among people all over the country. After the 1960s, many people visited the graves and laid wreaths for revolutionary martyrs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. On this day, factories, schools, and institutions held many * *, in addition to offering sacrifices to sweep the graves of revolutionary martyrs, they also invited revolutionary predecessors to tell the stories and fine revolutionary traditions of revolutionary martyrs. In the 1980s, Tomb-Sweeping Day organized more outings and spring outing, and also organized kite competitions and other sports activities.

On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, willow branches will be inserted at the door of each folk family. Many elderly people also use willow branches to string baked sesame cakes and hang them under the eaves to dry them for children to eat. It is said that they can help digestion and eliminate accumulation. Families have to plant willows.

The Qingming Festival will be held in Tomb-Sweeping Day, especially in Zhoukou. There will be all kinds of commercial transactions and folk literary and art associations competing for each other? A meeting? In the form of stilts, dry boats, lions, etc.

Changzhou customarily had fried dumplings steamed in the past year for breakfast.

Early in the morning in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Changzhou, willow branches and peach branches should be inserted into the doorframes of every household to dispel the evil spirits of the next year with bright red and green. Why do you want to insert willow branches? Qi Min Yao Shu says:? Take Yang Liuzhi's house, but ghosts don't enter the house. ? Qingming is a ghost festival, and it is also reasonable to use willow branches to ward off evil spirits. There is also a memorial poet Liu Yong. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day after his death, people planted willows on the roadside as a memorial, and this custom has continued. And children wear willow branches in a circular ring on their heads, or smooth willow branches with skin to the top to make them soft and shaky? Liuqiu? . Some people also insert gorgeous peach blossoms on the knocker under the eaves to show that the door is clear and the spring is safe, so as to ward off evil spirits and bring happiness.

Besides these, on the same day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Changzhou people will eat glutinous rice dumplings without stuffing for breakfast. The big dumplings were made before the Spring Festival and soaked in cold water until the Dragon Boat Festival. On Qingming Day, take out the big dumplings, cut them into pieces, fry them in oil, and put sugar or salt according to your taste. Some people will put some willow leaves in it, which means adding? Green? . Changzhou people also have the custom of eating green dumplings in Tomb-Sweeping Day. To make green dumplings, you should go to Tiantou Road to pick a kind of food called? Green Judy? The leaves of wild plants are washed after coming back, and the green juice is kneaded, filtered and boiled, and made into green dumplings with rice flour.

Going to the grave should be at the top of the tomb? Floating paper money?

Qingming is a festival to sweep graves and worship ancestors. Before the festival, Changzhou people had? Go to the grave? The manners and customs. On the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the time of adding soil to repair the tomb should be used more. Weeds on the grave should be removed first, and soil should be added for renovation. If the font on the tombstone is ambiguous, it should be described with paint to make it clear. Put white paper on the top of the tomb and hold it down with mud or tiles, which is called? Floating paper money? . After the repair, worship began, incense sticks were lit, tables and cakes were placed, and they bowed down in turn according to their ages, while burning ingots and foils. Tomb-Sweeping Day? Eat ancestral temple wine? It is also an activity for people in Changwu area to celebrate the holidays. After sweeping the tomb, you should go to the ancestral hall, salute under the leadership of the patriarch, drink ancestral hall wine at noon, and pray for the protection of your ancestors and the peace of your family.

Release? Broken line? Swing in the autumn

During the Qingming period, everything revived, the spring was full, the grass was lush, and the city people also went out for an outing. Especially children put wicker hats on their heads and put them in the wild in groups of three or five? Broken line? (that is, kites). People regard Tomb-Sweeping Day as the last day of flying kites in spring, so it is called? Broken line? . Because the wheat in the field has been jointing and can no longer be trodden, the kite is often cut and let fly when it is released, which means that the bad luck of this year also flies away with the broken kite, and the released kite cannot be picked up. In the afternoon, children will hang two ropes on the tree? Swing in the autumn? Play. ? Cold food and Qingming swing, like birds benefiting the body? . I remember when I was a child, some people put on small sesame cakes with wicker and hung them high in the house. Long summer? Take it down for children to eat every day, so as to get it? High above to prevent summer? There is no scientific basis, it is just a beautiful symbol. It will be sunny for Tomb-Sweeping Day to go for an outing. Are there any agricultural proverbs? Clear and bright, Grain Rain to pour? 、? Qingming breaks snow, Grain Rain breaks frost? 、? The Qingming sun scorched willow, and there were dry noodles and bran? ，? Longcheng looks at sunny days, where the scenery is in front of you. Cold food peaches and willows bloom, and the Qingming sunrise is full of smoke? .