Meteorological proverbs about Qingming

"Before and after Qingming Festival, a melon must order beans" and "Planting trees is not as good as Qingming Festival" are proverbs that people often mention. In addition, although some proverbs mention Tomb-Sweeping Day or Cold Food Festival, they are still spoken from the perspective of solar terms and festivals. "Sixty days from spring to cold food and seventy days from basket falling" means sixty days from beginning of spring to Qingming, and wheat can be harvested after 70 days. "The wind blows sixteen lights, and the rain hits Tomb-Sweeping Day's tomb", which means that when it is windy on the 16th of the month, it often rains during the Qingming Festival. Most of these proverbs are related to farming and belong to farming season and season proverbs.

"Cold food is clear in March, and Yan Yan is full of jujube trees." This proverb means "March", because Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Cold Food Festival are usually at the beginning of March in the summer calendar, and sometimes at the end of February in the summer calendar. "Swallow drilling jujube forest" includes the custom that mesons push Mianshan to death and people eat cold food without fire. "Swallow", also known as "cold swallow" and "push swallow" among the people, is made of white flour by skilled women and can be used as cold food when there is no fire.

It is the custom of "Don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, beauty becomes a lion's head" and "Don't insert willow in Qingming Festival, turn yellow dog when you die". According to legend, meson tui was burned to death by a big willow tree, and so was the willow tree. In the second year, Jin Wengong went to Mianshan to pay homage, and saw the willow coming back from the dead and flourishing. So, I dragged a willow branch, woven it into a willow circle, put it on my head, and named the tree "Qingming Willow". Filial piety, people also wear their heads. Inserting willows means that after Tomb-Sweeping Day, some wickers are folded in the wild and inserted in front of their own doors, which means looking forward to spring to ward off evil spirits.

From the above proverbs, we can easily see that Tomb-Sweeping Day is a spring ceremony for hiking, getting close to nature and urging new students to love. This is also a festival to pay homage to and remember our ancestors. The excellent tradition of "cherishing the distance" and "respecting one's parents and respecting one's ancestors" embodied in it is the bond for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to the ancestral home, which embodies a strong feeling of gratitude.