pancake
Eating pancakes on the third day of the third lunar month is one of the traditional customs of Tongan people in Fujian. After Zheng Chenggong recovered Taiwan Province Province, his son Zheng Jing inherited his father's footsteps, continued to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and sent troops to attack southern Fujian many times. Because of the stubborn resistance of the Qing army, heavy civilian casualties were caused. Under Zheng Jun's counterattack, the Qing army surrendered and Zheng Jun entered the city. While welcoming Zheng Jun, the people made pancakes to sacrifice their dead relatives and friends. Later, people used pancakes to worship their ancestors on the third day of the third lunar month.
Sweet wine cake
Since ancient times, Zhuang people in Guangxi have had many unique customs, some of which have not changed. Some people in Guangxi have visited Tomb-Sweeping Day, and some people have celebrated March 3rd. The most representative sacrificial snacks are sweet wine and cakes. When the Zhuang people in Guangxi went up the mountain to sweep the grave on March 3, they not only sacrificed sweet wine and cakes to their ancestors, but also ate them themselves after the worship. It is said that they would be infected with good luck.
Small garlic bar
In the Pan-area of Taihu County, Anhui Province, it is customary to eat garlic cakes with Tomb-Sweeping Day on the third day of the third lunar month. The garlic paste cake is mainly made of garlic, bacon and rice flour. It is said that a long time ago, the third day of the third lunar month was one of the ghost festivals in China. That night, the wild ghost came out to wander. Garlic is pungent and warm. Eating garlic can drive away cold, insects and ghosts.
Boiled eggs with shepherd's purse
In Hunan, there is a custom of boiling eggs with shepherd's purse on March 3. Spring is the season to eat shepherd's purse, whose homonym is "gathering wealth". Shepherd's purse, also known as local vegetable and wild vegetable, is a kind of wild vegetable growing in the corner of the field. Boiled eggs with shepherd's purse can not only dispel wind, remove dampness, clear fire, relieve pain in waist and legs, but also prevent spring plague. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "shepherd's purse is a panacea on March 3." Folk proverbs.
Five-color glutinous rice
Every year on the third day of the third lunar month or in Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family in Zhuang nationality will steam five-color glutinous rice for the holidays. Five-color glutinous rice is named after its five colors: black, red, yellow, purple and white. Zhuang people regard five-color glutinous rice as a symbol of "auspiciousness" and "bumper harvest", which is a good product for entertaining guests and one of the offerings for sweeping ancestors.
Crown daisy rice cake
Eating Artemisia dam on the third day of the third lunar month every year is a traditional folk custom of Han nationality in the south of the Yangtze River. According to legend, "March 3rd" is a festival for all the dead. On this day, everyone eats wormwood to commemorate the dead and wish everyone a long and healthy life without being attacked by evil. It is said that eating wormwood on March 3, going into the mountains to do business and going out to do business, will not be bitten by snakes, have a safe trip and all the best.
The custom of Shangsi Festival
1, baby
There are also activities such as swaddling, pruning or bathing in Shangsi Festival. Bathing is for disaster relief. Prehistoric humans believed that fertility was the result of totem entering women. After entering the era of male chauvinism, people realized that copulation between husband and wife was the cause of childbirth. However, both the concept of totem worship and the understanding that copulation between husband and wife leads to fertility admit that women are the embodiment of fertility and children are conceived by their mothers. However, not every woman can give birth normally, and some women are often unable to get pregnant because of illness. At that time, people thought that women's infertility was caused by ghosts and gods, so they used the bath of Shangsi Festival to treat infertility. In this way, over time, bathing has become an important part of Shangsi Festival. The foot-washing conference, which spread in early spring in Yunnan, is a legacy of ancient times.
2. winding water flow
There are three activities in Shangsi Festival: laying eggs near Shui Piao, floating dates on water and winding water. In the above three kinds of water activities, the egg near Shui Piao is the oldest. It puts boiled eggs in the river and leaves them to Eve. Whoever finds them will eat them. Jujube floating on water and winding water evolved from floating eggs near water. However, this is a relatively civilized witchcraft. It is this evolution of witchcraft that qu shui and drinking in the water become the entertainment activities of literati.
Step 3 meet men and women
There is a strange custom on Shangsi Festival, that is, "men and women meet". Sexual intercourse in this festival has a long history. It originated from the seasonal marriage in the clan period-sexual intercourse and group marriage, and later it was handed down. For example, there are pictures of sexual intercourse between men and women on the rock paintings in Zuojiang, Guangxi, and there are also brick paintings of Han tombs in Chengdu. Later records also saw this custom. There are many customs of meeting men and women in ethnic minority areas in China, such as the third day of March of the Li nationality, the climbing of the Miao nationality, the throwing of hydrangeas by the Buyi nationality and so on. Walking is also such a legacy. On the third day of visiting Nanshan in Wujin, Jiangsu Province, a folk song said: "On March 3, wear a single shirt;" Stir-fried Malan with garlic and eat Nanshan. "