Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important solar term and festival in China. The most important custom of people in Tomb-Sweeping Day is to offer sacrifices to sweep graves. So can 202 1 Tomb-Sweeping Day wear red clothes to sweep the grave? What does it mean to eat eggs on Qingming Day?

202 1 Can Tomb-Sweeping Day wear red clothes when sweeping graves? No.

Tomb-Sweeping Day generally chooses plain colors to sweep graves. On the contrary, he should not wear bright red and green clothes when sweeping the grave. This kind of clothes is not in harmony with the atmosphere of sweeping graves, and may also show disrespect for the deceased, so it is more appropriate to wear plain clothes. In addition, when sweeping the grave, it is often necessary to cultivate the soil to repair the grave. If you wear too much and too complicated, you may be inflexible and clumsy. In addition, there will be plants such as Ziziphus jujuba and Pueraria lobata growing in the cemetery, which are very stinging and should not wear expensive clothes. When the grave is finished, sacrifices should be offered to burn incense, and the younger generation should kneel and kowtow to the deceased. Women wearing one-step skirts will also be awkward and inconvenient to move.

What does Tomb-Sweeping Day mean by eating eggs?

In Tomb-Sweeping Day in the twenty-four solar terms, Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating eggs and touching them. Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, there are always several children who are willing to touch eggs. Touching an egg is to put two eggs together and pinch each other to see who can crush each other's eggs. Because you can't eat spicy food, this game has become the children's favorite. If we want to explore the symbolic significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs against eggs, we should also include people's reverence for life and fertility.

Appreciation of Qingming Ancient Poems

Qingming Festival

Dondum

It rained a lot during my stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Pedestrians on the road want to die.

Excuse me, where is the restaurant?

The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.

Cold food is on the road.

Tangsong wenzhi

It's already on the way to late spring when I meet cold food immediately.

Poor Jiang, I can't see Luo Qiao people.

The Arctic cherishes the sage, and Nanwa is the vassal.

In the old garden, wicker is new day and night.

An outdated festival (Qingming Festival) that started one or two days ago in Tomb-Sweeping Day, when only cold food is served for three days.

Tang Han 'ao

In late spring, Chang 'an city is full of songs and dances, and countless flowers fall. The east wind of the Cold Food Festival blows on the willow trees in the royal garden.

As night fell, the palace was busy lighting candles, and smoke drifted to the house of the prince and the marquis.

The door is that thing.

Tang zhangji

The tiller loves the boat, and the spring grass is green and the fields are vast;

Try going to the Wumen Gate to see the county Guo, there is new smoke in Qingming.