Tomb-Sweeping Day's delicious food
1, Youth League
Youth League is a traditional special food popular in the south of the Yangtze River, which originated in the Tang Dynasty. From then on, every household in the south of the Yangtze River steamed a lot of green balls before the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, some of which were mainly used for ancestor worship, and the rest were stored as cold food, and they would be full in those days when smoking was banned.
2, Qingming egg
Eating eggs is the custom of many traditional festivals, and Tomb-Sweeping Day is no exception. People call eggs "Qingming eggs". In addition to the Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day has also integrated into an earlier festival-Shangsi Festival.
On Shangsi Festival, people often pray for a happy marriage and the early birth of children, and eggs represent the birth of life in our traditional culture. People will cook eggs in Shangsi Festival, and women will peel them and eat them, hoping to have a smooth delivery.
The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day:
Tomb-Sweeping Day, with both natural and humanistic connotations, is not only one of the "24 solar terms", but also a traditional festival for ancestor worship. "Twenty-four solar terms" is the product of ancient farming civilization, which is related to the time of gossip and has a long history. "Twenty-four solar terms" not only play a guiding role in agricultural production, but also affect the basic necessities of life and even cultural concepts of ancient people.
In the early days of observing images and timing, bucket handle made a clockwise rotation according to the movement of stars, which was called one year old. Tian Yuan began in Yin, such as "Xun in Huainan", which says: "Emperor, transport troops to fight, move to his place once a month, the first month refers to Yin, December is ugly, turn around at the age of one, and start all over again".