What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

On the 5th, we welcomed Tomb-Sweeping Day. In China, there is a folk custom of inserting willows through willows. There is a saying in the folk proverb that "a beautiful woman is proud when she is clean" and "a clean woman is gouhuang." So, why does Qingming want to insert willows into willows? Folklore experts gave an explanation.

Wang Laihua, a professor at Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, said that the custom of inserting willows in Qingming can be traced back to ancient times, when it was to commemorate Shennong, the ancestor of farming who taught people to grow 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.

In addition to the custom of inserting willows, there is also the custom of wearing willows in Qingming Festival. The so-called wearing willow is to weave willow branches into a circle and wear them on your head or insert tender willow branches directly on your head.

Wang Lai-hua said that the custom of wearing willow among the people is to commemorate meson push. Legend has it that when Jin Wengong and his ministers went hiking to worship Jiexiu, they found that the old willow trees that had been burned in those years had actually come back from the dead. Jin Wengong now named the old willow "Qingming Willow", and broke off a few branches on the spot and put them on his head as a souvenir. His ministers followed suit and became accustomed to each other. Tomb-Sweeping Day's willow crossing has become a symbol to commemorate meson push.

Tomb-Sweeping Day wants to eat eggs.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival, and people in China have the custom of eating eggs. Folklore experts say that this custom expresses people's awe and reverence for life and fertility.

Wang Laihua, a professor at Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, said that the origin of eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day was that there was a custom of prohibiting fire in some areas in the pre-Qin period, and it was forbidden to eat cold food for many days. Hard-boiled eggs are the best food reserves to survive this period.

Saving eggs can be roughly divided into two types, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". The former can be eaten, and I believe that eating this kind of egg will not have a headache for a year; The latter is for enjoyment only.

Wang Lai-China said that exploring the symbolic significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs also contains people's reverence and belief in life and fertility.

In the ancient culture of China, the egg was a symbol of fertility and life. Legend has it that Pangu, who created the world, was pregnant in an egg. "The world is like a chicken, and Pangu was born in it." The ancestor of Shang Dynasty was born in "When a bird lays an egg, Ju Dad takes it and swallows it, because it is pregnant". According to folk custom, after giving birth to a child, a woman should give good news to her neighbors and eight families, and also give eggs.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. There is a folk saying that when sweeping the grave, boiled eggs are broken on the tombstone and eggshells are thrown on the grave, which symbolizes "shelling" and indicates the rebirth of life, hoping that future generations can get ahead.