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Tomb-Sweeping Day's memorial way
Traditional sacrifice
The custom of burning paper money dates back to the Han Dynasty. People have been giving money to their dead relatives by burning paper for years, hoping that their relatives will live a happy life in the underworld.
Sacrificial supplies: incense, candles, paper money, fruit, vegetarian food.
The Sacrifice of Green Civilization
With the change of people's ideas, beautiful flowers have gradually become a necessity for Tomb-Sweeping Day's sacrifice. By offering a bunch of flowers, toasting, planting a tree, reliving the deeds of martyrs and other civilized and healthy ways to remember the martyrs and ancestors, we advocate folk activities such as outing, hiking and flying kites, cultivate a healthy and civilized holiday lifestyle, consciously resist vulgar sacrificial supplies, bid farewell to sacrificial habits, and advocate civilized sacrificial methods.
Sacrificial supplies: flowers, fruits, vegetarian food, cakes and drinks.
Online sacrifice
The so-called online sacrifice is to "move" real memorial halls and cemeteries to computers with the help of the characteristics of the Internet spanning time and space, so that people can pay homage to their deceased relatives anytime and anywhere. This way is a new way of offering sacrifices, which is suitable for many young people and people who go out. With the popularity of the Internet, "online cemetery", "WeChat memorial service" and "cloud memorial service" have gradually become popular. People can offer flowers, poems, messages, incense and wine to their ancestors on the special channel of the website, which is a simple and civilized way of paying homage.
What does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat?
1, Green jiaozi
During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Jiangnan had the custom of eating green jiaozi. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is exquisite sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. Jiaozi cooked it and steamed it in a cage. When they come out, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done.
2. Aizan
There is an old saying in Hakka that "eating mugs around Qingming Festival will keep you from getting sick all year round". Aizan is a traditional snack of Tomb-Sweeping Day Hakkas. First, wash the fresh and tender wormwood, put it in a pot and cook it, then take it out and drain it. The water for boiling wormwood should be reserved for later use. Then chop the cooked wormwood into grass mud, and the finer the grass mud, the worse the better. After cutting the wormwood mud, mix it with boiled wormwood water and glutinous rice flour. Then, the prepared fillings such as sesame seeds, plum beans and peanuts are sealed and kneaded into a round shape and a long shape, put into a pot and steamed for 15-20 minutes, and then discharged.
3. Warm mushroom bag
Warm mushroom bag is a traditional snack in Taining. The scientific name of the raw material of warm mushroom is Daqu grass, also called Fuer grass, and the local people call it warm mushroom grass. Every year on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the fields are covered with moustaches, which are hairy, fresh and tender, and it is a good season to pick and make warm mushroom packages. In Taining, the production of warm mushroom buns is somewhat different. South film production, using freshly picked' warm mushroom grass' raw materials, shaped like a full moon, similar to buns; The northern piece is made of warm mushroom powder, which is shaped like a crescent moon and more like jiaozi. Southern films are usually eaten on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, and there are not many rules for the sake of fresh taste.
4, prickly heat (s·m \u n)
Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world. The prickly heat that is popular in Han areas is different from the north and the south: the prickly heat in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; The southern prickly heat is exquisitely made, mainly rice and flour.
5. eggs
According to folk custom, Tomb-Sweeping Day has good health all year round after eating an egg. Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs originated from the custom of forbidding fire in some areas in the pre-Qin period, and forbidding eating cold food for many days. Hard-boiled eggs are the best food reserves to survive this period. Tomb-Sweeping Day can eat eggs to play on this day, which can be roughly divided into two types, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted eggs can be eaten; And "carving eggs" is just for enjoyment.
Step 6 push steamed bread
"Zi Tuimo", also known as Lao Momo, is similar to the helmet of ancient military commanders and weighs about 250-500 grams. Eggs or red dates are wrapped inside and have a top on them. The top is covered with flowers. Hua Mian is a dough-shaped steamed stuffed bun with the shape of swallow, worm, snake, rabbit or Four Treasures of the Study. The round "push buns" are for men to enjoy. Married women eat long "shuttle buns" and unmarried girls eat "catch buns". Children have flowers such as swallows, snakes, rabbits and tigers. "Big Tiger" is specially for boys, and it is also their favorite.
7.pancakes
There is a saying in Xiamen called "Eating Pancakes on Qingming Festival", which means that Tomb-Sweeping Day's family will get together to make pancakes after sweeping the grave. Today, most parts of southern Fujian still retain such customs and habits. When old Xiamen people roll pancakes, they usually like to put some crispy seaweed, shredded fried eggs or a little spicy sauce in the pancake skin, which is more delicious when it is rolled. Among them, all kinds of vegetables wrapped indicate the prosperity of farmers and six livestock. In some areas, people also believe that eating pancakes wrapped in celery and leeks will make people work harder, live longer (leeks) and prosper their family business.