The paper ash dances wildly on the barren grass, blocking the smoke of the willow trees on the red bridge.

It is best to place a grave beside the stream, where children and grandchildren can wipe their tears and watch the cruise ship.

?This poem describing Yangzhou people's tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival comes from "Bamboo Branch Ci on the Red Bridge during the Qingming Festival" written by Kong Shangren, a poet and opera writer in the early Qing Dynasty.

So during the Qingming Festival, how do you celebrate the Qingming Festival in Yangzhou? The following is the editor’s carefully recommended Yangzhou Qingming Festival old customs for everyone. I hope it can be helpful to you.

It is an old custom in Yangzhou that Yangzhou people must go to the countryside to visit graves during the Qingming Festival.

Since you want to go to the suburbs, you have to rush early. If you go late, you will be disrespectful to your deceased relatives.

For those relatives who have recently passed away, it is even more important to go to the memorial service earlier.

New graves within three years must be swept before Qingming Festival.

People who are far away from home, no matter how far away, must rush home early.

After three years, if something happens again and the journey is far away, the memorial service can be carried out one or two days after Qingming Festival.

The custom of sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival is found all over the country and has a long history.

Ancient people also had the custom of paying homage to the tomb. The Book of Rites stipulates that those who are late for the funeral should go to the cemetery of the deceased to pay homage to express their apology.

At the same time, it is also said that when relatives leave their hometown or return from other places, they should go to their ancestors' tombs to say goodbye or to say goodbye.

These etiquette and customs are called "grave sacrifices".

Because bidding farewell and leaving are normal etiquette, there is no need to cry sadly, so it is rare to go to the cemetery to cry at the tomb during the Qingming Festival.

But later generations go to the cemetery to sweep graves during the Qingming Festival.

Why do we need to sweep tombs? In ancient times, all the scholar-bureaucrats had family temples, and they worshiped their ancestors in their family temples.

Later, the templeless class prospered. They also wanted to worship their ancestors, but they did not have a family temple, so they went directly to the cemetery to worship their ancestors in the cemetery.

From this, the daily farewells and farewells at the cemetery were combined with the sacrifices during the Qingming Festival, thus forming the Qingming tomb sweeping that has been passed down to this day.

?Furthermore, Yangzhou is located between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River. During the Qingming Festival, the flowers are red and the willows are green, and the cauliflower in the fields is as yellow as clouds.

Most of Yangzhou's cemeteries are in the northwest suburbs. This area is also a scenic spot in Yangzhou. The attractive scenery allows people to worship their ancestors and take a walk in the suburbs. This cleverly combines ancient customs with modern life.

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Sacrifice sweeping requires not only sweeping, but also several special considerations.

Yangzhou people pay homage to their ancestors by sweeping their tombs, including the following tasks: offering sacrifices; burning paper money; saluting and expressing condolences; weeding weeds; cultivating soil for the tomb; replacing the tomb cap (newly dug conical soil blocks are placed on the top of the tomb);

Going around the tomb to say goodbye, etc.

Beet heads (ie wolfberry heads), huanghuangzi (ie yangcao), wormwood, malangtou (ie malan heads), and Chinese toon are what Yangzhou people must eat during the Qingming Festival.

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In addition to the fresh and delicious "Five New Qingming Dishes", old Yangzhou also has many specific "Qingming Dishes".

?Potherb-roasted rice noodles? is one of them.

In addition to visiting the graves, we must offer vegetables and meals to our ancestors at home on Qingming Festival.

Naturally, boiled fish, roasted meat, vegetables, and tofu are indispensable. Another dish is "braised rice noodles with mustard seeds". Cut the rice noodles into pieces and fry them slowly in a pan, then add ginger, green onion, and diced mustard seeds.

Burn it over high heat again and take off the pot.

Qingming snails compete with fat goose.

People in Yangzhou like to eat snails. A few days before the Qingming Festival, many old Yangzhou people will also buy pounds of live snails, add a few drops of sesame oil, put them in water for a day or two, let the snails spit out the mud, and then cut their tails.

Stir-fry and eat.

Or on the Qingming Festival, buy some snails and leeks, put the snails in clean water, put it on the pot and use a needle to pick out the meat. Stir-fried snails and leeks are a particularly popular home-cooked dish.

Old customs in Suzhou: green dumplings and cooked lotus root. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Wen of Jin became queen and set fire to the mountain for three days and nights in order to force Jiezi to push him out of the mountain. As a result, Jiezi and his mother were burned alive. Gong Wen regretted it very much. In order to commemorate Jiezi,

Therefore, it is stipulated that every year at this time, it is forbidden to eat cold food with fire. You are not allowed to use fire, and you are only allowed to eat cold food and drink cold water.

But in the exquisite and elegant Suzhou, the custom of eating cold food is also interpreted in a colorful way.

Qingtuanzi and roasted lotus root are the seasonal foods during the Qingming Festival in Suzhou. They are the cultural relics of the ancient cold food custom.

Ge Chunyuan, vice president of the Suzhou Traditional Culture Research Association, said that qingtuanzi is a dumpling made by extracting juice from wheat seedling leaves, clarifying it with lime, and mixing it with rice flour. It can be filled with bean paste and other fillings.

Qingtuanzi is green in color and fragrant in taste. It is a must-have food for Suzhou people during the Qingming Festival.

In addition, the cooked lotus root cake is glutinous and has a unique flavor. It is also a Qingming Festival food for Suzhou people.

According to reports, every time before the Qingming Festival, people pick the old lotus roots from the lotus pond, remove the joints and tips, cut a thin slice from both ends, fill it with glutinous rice, and then cover the slice with toothpicks and nail it tightly.

Put the lotus root into the pot, add alkali, cover the surface with some lotus leaves, cover the pot and cook over high heat until the lotus root turns brown and becomes crispy.

After cooling, dip it in red sand syrup and eat it.

Sacrifice: Newlyweds? Go to the Flower Tomb? According to legend, in order to commemorate Jie Zitui, Jin Wen Gong would go to sacrifice Jie Zitui every year before the Qingming Festival, which formed the custom of visiting the tomb with cold food.

People in Suzhou do not dare to neglect visiting their tombs during the Qingming Festival, especially those who have recently mourned for seven years but have not yet completed their anniversary. They want to celebrate the new Qingming Festival.

Newlyweds have to visit the grave together, which is called "visiting the flower grave".

To this day, the custom of sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival is still popular among the people.

Ge Chunyuan said that in addition to visiting graves and sweeping tombs, every family used to celebrate the Qingming Festival and pay homage to their ancestors.