What are the traditional dietary customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

The first food in Qingming Festival is "Green jiaozi". In the southern region, green jiaozi can be seen almost everywhere during the Qingming Festival, all over the street. jiaozi stuffed with bean paste or sesame seeds is delicious, really soft, slippery, sweet and delicious.

2. Boiled eggs

In some places, people will eat a boiled egg in the morning. According to local folklore, eating an egg in Tomb-Sweeping Day is good for the whole year. Eating eggs during Qingming period means wishing good health.

3. Warm mushroom bag

In Taining area, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a good time to pick fresh warm mushroom grass. Picked locally and made into steamed stuffed bun-shaped or jiaozi-shaped warm mushroom packages. Fresh and refreshing.

Step 4 insert willow/pierce willow

It is said that the custom of inserting willows is also to commemorate Shennong, the ancestor of farming, who taught the people to cultivate crops. In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to forecast the weather. There is an old saying that "the willow branches are green and the rain is raining;" The saying that there is another village. During the period of Huang Chao, it was stipulated that "Qingming lasts for a period, and Liu Dai is the number".

After the failure of the uprising, the custom of wearing willow was gradually eliminated, and only willow was popular. Willow has a strong vitality, as the saying goes: "intentional planting of flowers, unintentional planting of willows." Wicker lives when inserted in the soil, lives where it is inserted, and goes down year after year, and it becomes gloomy everywhere.

Cultural connotation

"Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It is not only a festival for people to pay homage to their ancestors, but also a link for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors. It is also a spring ceremony to hike, get close to nature and spur new students. " Shi Aidong, a doctor of folklore at China Academy of Social Sciences, said.

As an important festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the customs such as offering sacrifices and hiking mainly come from the Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival. The Cold Food Festival is related to the ancient people's understanding of nature.

In China, the rebirth of a new fire after a cold meal is a transitional ceremony to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. It reveals the information of seasonal alternation and symbolizes the beginning of a new season, a new hope, a new life and a new cycle. Later, there was a sense of gratitude, and more emphasis was placed on nostalgia and gratitude for the past.