What do you mean by adding soil and inserting willows?

It is a custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day to add soil to insert willows. Qingming is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. In rural areas, special emphasis is placed on repairing the collapse of graves and adding some new soil, which means "building a house to make up the house", so as to prevent the graves from being thin and the ancestors from getting cold in the rain, and at the same time increase the blessings for the younger generation. This is "adding soil".

The reason is that according to the rural people, Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the four GREAT GHOST solar terms in a year. Influenced by Buddhism, people think that wicker can exorcise ghosts, so it is called "ghost haunting wood". For the safety of the whole family and to prevent the harassment and persecution of ghosts, people began to insert willows and wear willows. The book says, "Put a willow branch on the door, and a hundred ghosts won't get in."

In other places, people put willow branches under eaves or above doorframes to predict 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.