Tomb-Sweeping Day's folk activities and health preserving principles.

Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China. Because the 24 solar terms objectively reflect the changes of temperature, rainfall and phenology throughout the year, ancient working people used them to arrange agricultural activities. The following are the Tomb-Sweeping Day folk activities and health principles I have compiled for you, hoping to help you.

Folk activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day

1, outing

Going for an outing is also called a spring outing. In ancient times, it was also called exploring spring and seeking spring. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, the sun is shining, everything is reviving, and the earth is full of vitality. It is a good time to go for an outing. The custom of outing has a long history and was formed as early as the pre-Qin period. In the Song Dynasty, the wind of hiking was the most popular and passed down from generation to generation.

Step 2 eat eggs

The custom of eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a history of thousands of years. The ancients cooked eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs and other eggs and painted them in various colors, which were called "colored eggs". They threw these colorful eggs into the river and washed them down the river. People downstream scrambled for them, thinking that they could have children after eating them.

Later, people ate eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day, symbolizing family reunion. There is also a folklore that Tomb-Sweeping Day eats eggs, and he will be healthy all year round, just like eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which are all holiday foods.

Step 3 eat hair cakes

During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people like to eat steamed cakes, which are made by grinding glutinous rice into rice slurry and steaming it. A lot of steamed cakes are delicious or not, but steamed or not, which is used to pin their good wishes of "getting rich" and "rising".

Step 4 eat green balls

Youth League is a snack in the south of the Yangtze River and the most festive food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is a kind of wormwood that only existed before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is a jiaozi made of glutinous rice flour and soup. Because jiaozi is bright green, it is named Youth League.

5. Children and in-laws send numbness to each other

In some places in Zhejiang province, the custom of sending hemp chips to each other by children and relatives is still preserved. In ancient times, after men and women got married, it often took a long time to get married formally, also for the convenience of mutual inspection. After all, getting married is a great event in life. It is a kind of etiquette before marriage that children and parents-in-law send hemp chips to each other. The man usually sends hemp chips to the woman in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, indicating that the next Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming to marry his new wife. After the daughter gets married, the parents of the woman's family will send a snack to the man's family in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which means wishing the young couple a happy life, My Sweetie and happiness.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's principle of health preservation

First, pay attention to "the disease enters from the mouth"

The changeable weather is easy to catch a cold, leading to tonsillitis, bronchitis and pneumonia; At this time, respiratory infectious diseases, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, chickenpox, epidemic meningitis and so on. , is a frequent occurrence. Therefore, we should pay close attention to the weather changes, increase or decrease clothes, go to public places as little as possible, and pay special attention to "illness from the mouth".

Second, don't eat "hair"

This solar term is also a time when many chronic diseases are easy to recur, such as arthritis, asthma and mental illness. Therefore, people with chronic diseases should avoid food that is easy to happen. The so-called "hair" refers to products that dispel wind and produce phlegm, send poison to help fire and help evil spirits, such as sea fish, shrimp, sea crab, pickles, bamboo shoots, mutton, cock and so on. And you can eat some cold food properly.

Suitable foods are japonica rice, sesame, peanut, adzuki bean, glutinous rice, quail, goose, mussel, snail, egg, leek, coriander, lettuce, yam, apple, orange, horseshoe, pear, peach and cherry. Healthy soup should be carrot and bamboo cane water, pork belly stewed with Chili, fish head stewed with Chuanxiong and Angelica dahurica, dog belly fish with leeks, pig's trotters with fresh Smilax glabra, eel with pickles, pork lean with catnip and so on.

Third, feel comfortable and be quiet when moving.

At the same time, this solar term is prone to high blood pressure. To maintain a good mood, choose soft and quiet exercise methods such as Tai Ji Chuan. Avoid participating in competitive activities and avoiding emotional excitement; Avoid doing weight-bearing activities, so as not to hold your breath and cause blood pressure to rise.

Fourth, it is not advisable to change clothes too early.

As the saying goes, "Dressing in disorder in February" refers to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Because the climate is changeable and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, you should prepare a coat that you can put on and take off at will. Wear a trench coat when you go out to work in the morning, and keep warm. When you feel hot at noon, you can take it off and put it on when you get home from work at night, which can effectively prevent colds. The so-called "spring cover" also means this. It's not until Tomb-Sweeping Day that spring clothes can be changed in mid-April. Of course, the process of "spring covering" also varies from person to person, and clothes should be increased or decreased according to their physical fitness. Generally speaking, according to climate change, clothes should be increased or decreased at any time, pay attention to cold and warmth, help the human body to grow hair and resist the invasion of foreign evils, which is helpful to health.

5. Don't be too sad.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important sacrificial festival. Through ancestor worship and grave-sweeping activities, we can remember our ancestors and express our grief. Seeing the tombstones of their loved ones, many people will inevitably think of something and feel extremely sad. This time, everyone will feel this way. However, excessive sadness has a serious impact on health, especially patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease should control their emotions to prevent the recurrence of old diseases. In addition, spring is a period of high incidence of various mental diseases, and sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day can easily make people feel depressed and depressed, and induce mental diseases. Therefore, people should not be too sad before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, but should maintain a stable mood and a comfortable mood.

Six, to prevent the recurrence of hypertension

Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, people's mood fluctuated greatly, especially in the middle-aged and elderly people with hypertension. Because I miss my loved ones too much, I can't sleep well, which easily leads to an increase in blood pressure. Therefore, patients with hypertension should reduce and eliminate abnormal emotional reactions as soon as possible to maintain emotional stability. You can choose the soft and quiet Tai Ji Chuan movement to divert your thoughts. You should also avoid weight-bearing activities to avoid holding your breath and raising your blood pressure.

Seven, health care focuses on nourishing the liver.

The traditional health preserving theory holds that "spring corresponds to liver", which means that the climate characteristics of spring are closely related to human liver. Therefore, the method of keeping in good health in spring should focus on nourishing the liver. If the liver function is normal, people's qi will be smooth, qi and blood will be harmonious, and the functions of various zang-fu organs will remain normal. Therefore, Qingming health care focuses on nourishing the liver. Nursing liver can be divided into "nourishing liver" and "clearing liver". There are many specific methods, such as nourishing liver with liver, nourishing liver with taste, nourishing liver with blood, nourishing liver with vegetables and so on.

Eight, dietary supplements.

Qingming, cold air and warm air alternate, getting warmer every day, so the weather is sunny for a while, rainy for a while, and the human body often becomes quadriplegic. In the conditioning of soup, besides diuresis and dampness, it also needs proper tonic, so nourishing blood and relaxing tendons is the most important. It is suggested that the white dove (20 g of mulberry, 30 g of coix seed and white dove) be stewed with mulberry and coix seed. Diet should be light, regular and quantitative, salt restriction, potassium supplement, mainly tonic, eat more fruits and vegetables to prevent getting angry. You can eat more foods that soften the liver and moisten the lungs, such as shepherd's purse benefiting the liver and harmonizing the middle; Spinach benefits five internal organs and blood vessels; Yam strengthens the spleen and benefits the lungs.

What are the forms of Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Qingming sacrifice

From the spatial form of sacrifice, sacrifice can be divided into temple fair sacrifice, altar sacrifice, shrine sacrifice, family sacrifice, hope sacrifice and grave sacrifice. The most important way of offering sacrifices in Tomb-Sweeping Day is to sweep graves, that is, to offer sacrifices to graves where the remains or ashes of relatives or ancestors are buried.

In traditional farming society, the Spring Festival, as the first day of the year, is of great significance. In many areas with strong clan concept, grave-sweeping is started from February vernal equinox to worship ancestors, and it ends at Qingming at the latest; Before sweeping the grave, adult men all over the country should hold ancestor worship ceremony in the ancestral temple; After the ancestor worship, they will also sweep graves according to family branches and houses. Sacrifice in ancestral temple is often a large-scale ritual of sweeping, and moving steel is dispatched by the whole family or even the whole lining. Traditionally, the main contents of ancestor worship include people burning incense, kowtowing and offering sacrifices, as well as the format and fixed content of the blessing words read by priests in public. Moreover, according to the ancient tradition recorded in Li Zhouguan Chunzongbo: "Brothers are related by food." Dongtang Festival usually ends with family dinner or sharing pork, or "eating Qingming".

Family ceremony (in memory of ancestors)

Family sacrifices, also called sleeping sacrifices, are sacrifices made by God at home. The main object of family sacrifice is ancestors who died within two generations, such as grandparents or parents. Family festivals are often held because the family structure is relatively simple or too far away from the ancestral graves. There is a cloud in the third volume of Ting Anne Lu: "People, rich or poor, are sacrificed first, and customs call festivals, which are natural. Covered with beautiful soil, family festivals take Qingming, July 30th and October 1st as ghost festivals.

Wangjiashan Festival

One climbed up the mountain, looked at the direction of the ancestral grave and withdrew the paper money into the air. Song Yu's "Chicken Ribs" volume: "Cold food is buried, and there is no fragrance. Paper money hangs on the tree. People who go to the countryside climb mountains to watch sacrifices. Breaking in the air is called breaking money. However, due to the four directions of Shi Jing, a wine bowl (turn, rice) was set up, and the family took a spring outing. "

Second, offering sacrifices by the water: worshippers set sacrifices in the direction where the ancestral graves are located, hoping to send their thoughts to the ancestral graves in their hometown along the waterway. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian described the so-called "cold food trip" as "a far-away man who had no grave to worship the heavens and led his wife back to his hometown".

"Watching sacrifices", which is not limited by geographical space, has more special significance in modern society. With the spread of Chinese in the world, overseas Chinese worship at home has become a method of clan identification. For example, China people who live in Huonu Lu Lu badminton often burn paper sacrifices at the seaside of their ancestors' hometown.