1. It is said that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taiping Chen, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased by Qing soldiers to a farmland. At this time, a farmer disguised Taiping Chen as a farmer and cultivated land with him. The Qing soldiers didn't catch anyone, so they set up sentries in nearby villages to check everyone who came in and out of the village to prevent anyone from bringing food to Taiping Chen.

After returning home, the farmer accidentally fell on wormwood while thinking about what to bring to Taiping Chen. Suddenly, he thought about it. Farmers picked some wormwood and washed it at home, boiled it, and then kneaded the blue wormwood juice into glutinous rice flour to make blue rice dumplings. Finally, put the blue rice dumplings in the grass and get past the sentry at the entrance of the village.

After eating the blue rice balls, Taiping Chen felt fragrant, waxy and non-sticky and delicious. After dark, he bypassed the Qing soldiers' post and returned to the barracks. Later, Taiping Chen taught this way to all soldiers, and the custom of eating Youth League spread.

2. Qingming is a traditional folk festival in China. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Qingming has become a legal festival.

Chinese people have the traditional virtue of "thinking about the source when drinking water". According to "Dream Liang Lu", in ancient times, every day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, no matter the dignitaries or ordinary people, they would go to graves, sweep graves and pay homage to their ancestors to show their respect and memory. On this day, sweeping graves is the most important activity. However, in some parts of our country, the custom of eating cold rice in Tomb-Sweeping Day is still preserved.

According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Xiangong, the monarch of the State of Jin, had a beautiful young concubine Li Ji. In order to let her son Xi Qi inherit the throne in the future, she killed Prince Shen Sheng with a deadly trap.

Zhong Er, Shen Sheng's younger brother, fled the state of Jin to escape the persecution of Li Ji, and suffered humiliation all the way. On one occasion, Zhong Er fainted because of hunger. Minister Jiezitui cut a piece of meat from his leg, cooked it with fire and gave it to Zhong Er. In this way, they drifted from place to place and went through hardships, and finally returned to the State of Jin after 19 years. Zhong Er later became a famous Jin Wengong in history.

Later, Zhong Er became a monarch and rewarded all his followers who followed him into exile, but Jietui refused to be sealed and took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji, trying to force the meson to push his mother out. Who knows that this fire burned the meson mother and son to death. To commemorate meson push, Jin Wengong ordered that mountain fires should be banned on this day every year, and every household can only eat raw and cold food.

3. According to legend, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the Emperor Gaozu, wanted to go back to his hometown to worship his parents after he unified the whole country. However, due to years of war, the ancestral temple was covered with weeds and damaged. Although the men turned it over, they couldn't find the tablet of Liu Bang's parents until dusk.

finally, Liu bang had no choice but to ask the gods. He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, tore it into many small pieces by hand and held it in his hand. Liu Bang prayed to God: "I hope that my parents will have a spirit in the sky. If there is a piece of paper on a tablet that can't even blow the wind, it belongs to my parents." Say that finish, liu bang threw the paper into the air.

Sure enough, a piece of paper fell on a broken tablet, which could not be blown no matter how the wind blew. Liu Bang ran over and took a closer look, and there was really a Chinese character engraved on it.

Traditional customs in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day

1. "Burning Baggage"

The so-called "Baggage" refers to the postal parcel sent by the filial family from Yangshi to Sheol. I bought the so-called "wrapped skin" in Nanzhi shop, wrote down the taboo of accepting money to die, burned incense and held candles, and then incinerated it outside the door. Imagine that if people can agree with some old customs of paying homage at home according to their own situation and time schedule, it may greatly alleviate the congestion on the road of sweeping graves every year and save a lot of social resources.

2. Cold Food Festival

The Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The ancients often extended the activities of the Cold Food Festival to Qingming. Over time, people combined cold food with Qingming. Now, Tomb-Sweeping Day has replaced the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of worshipping mesons has become the custom of sweeping graves at Qingming Festival. Today, among the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it seems that the only thing that has been inherited is grave-sweeping. In fact, there are still some "old stresses" in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

3. Dai Liu

Dai Liu was an important part of sweeping graves in the past. "Don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, but turn yellow dog after death". In the Qingming willow culture, willows are inserted in graves, branches are inserted in front of doors, and wicker is inserted in sedan chairs or children's skirts, because willows have strong vitality. Imagine that if people who sweep graves today have the habit of planting trees and inserting willows, they don't know how many barren hills to dye green every year.