What are the customs of Qingming Festival and what traditional food to eat
The customs of Qingming Festival include sweeping tombs, outings, Plant trees, play swings, fly kites.Tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival, which is called respecting the ancestors, has a long history.Outing is also known as spring outing.In ancient times, it was called exploring spring, seeking spring, etc.In April, when it is clear and bright, spring returns to the earth, and the natural world presents a vibrant scene everywhere.
Traditional customs of Qingming Festival
1.Tomb-sweeping
Tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival is called "respecting the time" to ancestors, and its custom has a long history.
The Qingming Festival is an "ancestor worship festival" and is an important festival to express filial piety.According to the different places of worship, it can also be divided into tomb offerings and ancestral hall offerings.Tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival is usually carried out in the morning, with wine, food and fruit, and paper money burned in front of the tomb.Build new soil for the tomb, and kowtow to worship.
2.Outing
It is also called spring outing.Great time for an outing.Therefore, Chinese folk have long maintained the habit of outing during the Qingming Festival.
3.Planting trees
Before and after Tomb-sweeping Day, the spring sun is shining and the spring rain is blowing.Planting saplings has a high survival rate and rapid growth.Therefore, since ancient times, China has had the habit of planting trees during the Qingming Festival.Some people also call the Qingming Festival "Arbor Day", and the custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day.
4.Swinging
The swing is a kind of sport created by the northern ethnic minorities in ancient China.Introduced into the Central Plains during the Spring and Autumn Period, after the Han Dynasty, the swing gradually became a folk custom in Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival and other festivals and has been passed down to this day.
Traditional festival food of Qingming Festival
1.Green dumplings
During the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in the south of the Yangtze River.Green dumplings are made by smashing a wild plant called "wheatgrass" and squeezing out the juice.Then, the juice is mixed with the dried water-milled glutinous rice flour and kneaded, and then the dumplings are made.The filling of the dumplings is made of fine sugar bean paste.When filling, a small piece of sugar lard is added.After the dumplings are made, steam them in the cage, and use a brush to brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of the dumplings, and you’re done.
2.Ai Bun (bǎn)
There is an old Hakka saying, "Eat Ai Bun before and after Qingming, and you will not get sick all year round".Ai Bun is a traditional snack that Hakka people must have during the Qingming Festival.The first is to wash the fresh and tender wormwood that has been picked, put it in a pot and cook it, then pick it up, drain the water, and keep the water for cooking the wormwood for later use.Then chop the cooked wormwood into grass puree, the finer and rotten the grass puree, the better.After the mugwort mud is chopped, use the water that boiled the mugwort, add the glutinous rice flour and mix it into a ball.Then wrap the prepared sesame, eyebrow bean, peanut and other fillings into the dough, then seal it and shape it into a round, long shape, etc., put it in the pot and steam it for 15-20 minutes before it comes out of the oven.
3.Warm mushroom buns
Warm mushroom buns are traditional snacks in Taining.The scientific name of the raw material of warm mushroom is rat song grass, also known as Buddha’s ear grass, and the local people call it warm mushroom grass.Every year on the eve of Qingming Festival, the fields are covered with rat grass, which is fluffy and tender, which is a good season for picking and making warm mushroom buns.In Taining, there are some differences between the north and south slices of warm mushroom buns.The southern slices are made with freshly picked raw materials of warm mushroom grass, which are shaped like a full moon and similar to steamed buns; the northern slices are made with warm mushroom powder, which is shaped like a crescent moon and more like dumplings.Southern slices are usually eaten on the eve of Qingming Festival.The pictures are of fresh taste and do not follow too many rules.
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