Tomb-Sweeping Day as Written by Scholars in the Republic of China

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a sad festival to pay homage to ancestors, but it seems relaxed and warm in Zhou Zuoren's eyes.

Zhou Zuoren said in Flowers and Trees on the Hill that in the old days, women were the happiest when they went to the grave, followed by children. As soon as Qingming arrives, women and children go to the grave happily, dressed beautifully, which virtually constitutes a beautiful scenery. "Going to the grave in the boat" describes the custom of sweeping graves in Shaoxing, and describes in detail the eating habits of sweeping graves. Wild vegetables in my hometown mentioned a Qingming food? Yellow-flowered wheat cake; Also mentioned the Qingming wild vegetables? Shepherd's purse and Malantou; Only in his later years did Zhou Zuoren recall his childhood grave-sweeping, and wrote this poem:? Roasted goose has nothing to do, and hundreds of lions are around the grave. ?

Compared with Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun was very cold to Tomb-Sweeping Day, except for briefly recording the weather and? Vacation? Outside, in the novel "Medicine", I wrote the scene of Tomb-Sweeping Day going to the grave:? This year's Qingming is particularly cold; The willows spit out new buds half a grain of rice. Before dawn, Aunt Hua was sitting in front of a new grave on the right, discharging four dishes and a bowl of rice and crying. After paper, sitting on the ground, Lu Xun borrowed the coldness, desolation and gloom of Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave to write the unique sadness and haunting of the cemetery, further exposing the ignorance and unconsciousness of the people.

As brothers, their attitudes towards Tomb-Sweeping Day are quite different, which also reflects their different tastes and life pursuits!

did feng Zikai write on Qingming festival? Everyone's grave? The scene. The process of going to the grave is introduced in detail. Every time you go to a grave, besides a table of sacrifices to your ancestors, there must be a small plaque with small fish, small meat, eggs, wine and incense sticks for the landlord to eat, which is called grave worship land. Among the children, whoever kowtows to the grave land first grabs the egg first. ? What else? Eat grave wine at night? . From this article, we also appreciate the past, where families lived together and families went to the grave to worship their ancestors!

for Tomb-Sweeping Day, the master of literature, Mr. Lao She, found another way. He has a poem Qingming: Qingming is here/everywhere is full of peaches and greens/don't be busy burning paper/the most important thing is not busy planting trees? Burning paper? Busy? Planting trees? It reveals Lao She's life pursuit of worrying about the world and pleading for the people!

Through Tomb-Sweeping Day written by literati, we have learned about different folk customs, and we have a unique taste when reading it.