"The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." Qingming Festival, also known as Treading Green Festival, Line Qing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc., the festival period in the middle of spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originated from early human ancestor beliefs, and is the grandest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. The Qingming Festival has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival and a traditional festival. Do you know what are the customs of the Qingming Festival?

1, eat green dumplings

According to legend, the Duke of Jin, in order to commemorate the "cut flesh to serve the king" of the jiezi push, the day before the Qingming Festival as a cold food festival, do not make a fire to cook, only eat cold food. Later, cold food and Qingming were linked together, and eating green dumplings became a custom. Green dumplings with the Qingming around the juice of a kind of wormwood, mixed into the proportion of the proportion of glutinous rice hand-kneaded, and then according to the preferences of people wrapped into different fillings steamed into, the production of good green dumplings to eat the sweet and sweet and soft and delicious, with the aroma of wormwood leaves.

2, kite flying

In ancient times, kite flying, in addition to normal entertainment, in fact, there is a special meaning - in addition to disaster avoidance. Ancient people in kite flying, all with a small pair of scissors, will know all the disasters and diseases are written in the paper kite, and so on the kite flying high, then cut the kite line, let the paper kite with the wind, symbolizing their own disease, filth, let the kite to take away, so as to achieve the purpose of eliminating disasters and avoiding calamities.

From a modern scientific point of view, in the Qingming Festival, people step on the green kite flying, bathing in the sun, stretching the muscles and bones, leading the neck far away from the clouds and sky, accompanied by XuBuChang line, so that the winter living indoors for a long time, the internal heat buildup, qi and blood stagnation of the people, enjoy breathing fresh air, improve blood circulation and strengthen the lungs respiratory capacity can be played to clear the "heat" and spit out the old, new, new, new. "and spit out the effect of new.

3, trekking

Trekking Qingming season, spring back to the earth, the natural world everywhere present a vibrant scene, it is a great time for excursions. China's folk have long maintained the habit of Qingming trekking. Legend has it that the activity of trekking at Qingming took place a long time ago. Qingming trekking is inherent in the significance of the seasonal season, spring March, the beginning of life, everything is budding, people out of the house, to the field, proactively cater to the time to promote the flow of yang qi in their own bodies, which is beneficial to the health of the body.

4, swinging

Swinging, which is our ancient Qingming Festival customs. Swinging, meaning migrating by the leather rope. Its history is very ancient, the earliest called the thousand autumn, after in order to avoid taboos, changed to swing. Ancient swing with tree branches for the frame, and then bolted on the ribbon made. Later gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. The play of swing was already popular in the North and South Dynasties.

Swinging in the Tang Dynasty has been a very common game, and has become an important part of the Qingming Festival customs. Because of the Qingming swing everywhere, the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties set the Qingming Festival for the swing festival, the palace also set up a swing for the queen, concubines, court ladies to play. Playing swing not only can improve health, but also can cultivate the spirit of bravery, so far for people, especially children love.

5, eat eggs

To the Qingming Festival, the old family life will prepare some eggs, has a very auspicious meaning, eat eggs in the Qingming Festival, meaning that the new year can be healthy, the family will not be sick. Eating eggs at Qingming is called eating "festival eggs", and there are two kinds of festival eggs, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted colorful eggs can be eaten, while the "carved eggs" are only for fun. Cooked eggs, which are good for preservation and easy to combine, can be used to feed the hungry and are the first choice for people to spend the holidays!

These are what I know about the customs of the Qingming Festival, partners you know what else?