The symbols of making green dumplings on the Qingming Festival are remembering ancestors, hoping for reunion, praying for blessings, symbolizing hope and life, and passing on culture, etc.

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1, nostalgia for ancestors: steamed green dumplings emit the aroma of mugwort, which is both tasty and satiating, and are placed for a longer period of time, so this custom has been passed down to the present day. Therefore, now we eat green dumplings on Qingming Festival is to remember our ancestors and respect the customs of our ancestors.

2, looking forward to the reunion: the green dumplings in the "group" word also means reunion, so eat green dumplings in the Qingming Festival is also a symbol of the meaning of the family reunion. So when it comes to the Qingming Festival, the whole family will come together to make green dumplings, steamed out of the green dumplings are very fragrant, each person ate one of them to feel the atmosphere of the Qingming Festival's traditional festivals and customs.

3, pray for blessings: Qingming Festival will prepare a variety of food to worship ancestors, and the green dumplings in these offerings can not be missing. Therefore, eating green dumplings on the Qingming Festival is also hoping to get the blessing of ancestors, no matter in the career, life or health, can become better and better.

4, symbolizing hope and life: Qingming Festival, also known as the Cold Food Festival, Cold Food Festival is mainly a family ban on smoking and eating cold food, in ancient times this is a kind of transition ceremony, symbolizing new hope, new life. In addition, the Qingming Festival to eat cold food there is a "thanksgiving" meaning, emphasizing the "past" nostalgia and gratitude.

5, cultural heritage: now the green dough may be used as a grave-sweeping ritual function gradually faded, but more people use as a snack. Eating cold food at Qingming Festival is also a kind of cultural inheritance and development, will "eat" to "culture", but also better promote our traditional culture, so that the Chinese culture is flowing in every corner of the world.