"Rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." The poet Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty wrote a song called "Qingming", which has been passed down to this day. Qingming Festival as one of China's four major traditional festivals, both natural and humanistic two connotations, both "twenty-four solar terms" one of the traditional ancestor festival, for the knowledge of the customs of the Qingming Festival, how much do you know?

1, willow

Ching Ming Festival, Chinese folk custom of willow. It is said that the custom of willow is to commemorate the agricultural ancestor Shen Nong's "teaching people to harvest". In some places, people stick willow branches under the eaves to forecast the weather, the old proverb "willow green, rainy; willow dry, sunny days". Willow has a strong vitality, as the saying goes, "You plant flowers do not grow, do not want to willow into a shade." Willow inserted into the soil to live, inserted where, live where, year after year, willow, everywhere into the shade.

2, trekking

Trekking is also called spring tour, the ancient called spring, spring, and so on. Its meaning is to step on the grass, playing in the countryside, viewing the spring colors. March Qingming, spring back to the earth, the natural world everywhere presents a vibrant scene, it is a great time for excursions. China's folk long maintained the Qingming trekking habit. Before and after the Qingming is a good time for trekking, so become an important part of the Qingming Festival customs.

3, tomb sweeping

Tomb sweeping, originally the day before the Qingming (or the first three days) the custom of cold food, since the Tang Dynasty gradually merged in the Qingming, before becoming the Qingming Festival customs, called the ancestors of the "thinking of the time of respect". To this day, people around the Qingming Festival still have the custom of sweeping the graves of their ancestors, simply offer a bunch of flowers, in order to send the memory of the ancestors.

4, kite flying

Ancient Qingming Festival, also known as the "Swing Festival", originated very early, the North and South Dynasties have been popular. According to folklore, swinging can drive away all diseases, and the higher you swing, the better your life is. Therefore, during the Qingming Festival, many people will write all the illnesses they know on the kite, cut the kite string when the kite is flying high, and let it drift away with the wind, symbolizing that all their illnesses are taken away by the kite.

5, tree planting

Before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines, spring rain sprinkles planting saplings with high survival rate and fast growth. Therefore, since ancient times in China has been the habit of planting trees, some people also called the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day", tree-planting custom has been passed down to the present day.

6, eat green dumplings

According to legend, the Duke of Jin, in honor of the "cut flesh to serve the king" of the Jie Zi push, the day before the Ching Ming 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 before and after 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 the people wrapped into different fillings steamed into, the production of good green dumplings to eat sweet and sweet, soft and tasty, with the aroma of wormwood leaves.

The above is my understanding of the customs of the Qingming Festival, partners you know what else?