The main customs and traditional food of Qingming Festival
Qingming Festival is One of the four traditional festivals in our country, we have a statutory holiday every time.Among the folks, there are the main customs of sweeping graves, outings, planting trees, and flying kites on Qingming Festival.In addition, some people will eat green balls, eggs, and sorghum rice on this day.
Introduction to Qingming Festival
Qingming Festival, also known as Outing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Worship Festival, etc., falls between mid-spring and late spring.The Qingming Festival originated from the ancestral beliefs and spring ritual customs in ancient times.It has both natural and humanistic connotations.It is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival.Tomb-sweeping, ancestor worship and green outing are the two major ritual themes of Qingming Festival.These two traditional ritual themes have been passed down in China since ancient times and have not ceased to this day.Douzhi B (or the Yellow Longitude of the Sun up to 15°) is the Qingming solar term, and the festival time is around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar.
Diet customs on Qingming Festival
Because the cold food custom of Hanshi Festival was transplanted to Qingming Festival, some parts of northern my country still retain the habit of eating cold food on Qingming Festival.In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cold pastry, and Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, and Changdao eat eggs and cold sorghum rice.It is said that if this is not the case, there will be hail.Tai’an eats cold pancake rolls with raw bitter vegetables, and is said to have bright eyes after eating.Jinzhong area still retains the custom of banning fire on the day before Qingming Festival.In many places, the sacrificial food is divided and eaten after the sacrificial ceremony is completed.During the Qingming Festival, people in southern Jin Dynasty used to steam big steamed buns with white noodles, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle.
There is a custom of eating Qingming Festival during the Qingming Festival in some areas of southern my country.Qingtuan is also known as Qingming cake, cotton cabbage steamed glutinous rice cake, cinnamon cake, Qingming cake, mugwort cake, mugwort cake, Qingming fruit, spinach Pineapple cake, Qingming cake, mugwort cake, mugwort cake, wormwood cake, Qingming dumpling, warm mushroom bag, mugwort green ball and so on.In the hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian, every Qingming Festival must make some cakes, kueh and rice brown, and let the family eat before and after the Qingming Festival.
Folk activities on the Qingming Festival
The Qingming Festival carries rich cultural connotations in its historical development.There are differences in customs content or details due to different regions in the country.Although the festival activities are different in different places, tomb-sweeping ancestors, outings and outings are common basic etiquette themes.During the Qingming Festival, no matter where they are, people will go back to their hometowns to participate in ancestor worship activities to remember their ancestors.The ritual and customs culture of Qingming fully embodies the humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation to respect ancestors and pursue the distant future with caution.Careful pursuit of the end in the ancestor sacrifice ceremony, and enjoying the spring fun in the outing, cultural inheritance and physical and mental adjustment are important functions of the Qingming etiquette culture.
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