Is Tomb-Sweeping Day closed?
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestor belief of early human beings, is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and hiking are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs handed down from ancient times in China.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day's integration of natural solar terms and humanistic customs is a combination of humanistic and natural conditions, which fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' pursuit of harmony between heaven, earth and people, pays attention to conforming to the right time, place and people, and follows the laws of nature.
Seasonal food in Tomb-Sweeping Day:
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, some areas in the south of China have the custom of eating the Youth League, which is also called Qingming Cake, Flour Cake, Cike Cake, Qingming Baba, mugwort Baba, mugwort, Qingming Fruit, Bobo Cake, Qingming Cake and mugwort Cake. In the hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian, every time we go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, we will make some cakes, jiaozi and zongzi for our families to eat before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day.
According to the old custom in Shanghai, steamed cakes for sacrifice should be put on wicker and dried and stored. When they come in the long summer, they will be fried and given to the children. It is said that eating it in summer won't make you sick. In Huzhou, Zhejiang, Tomb-Sweeping Day's family wrapped zongzi, which can be buried as a sacrifice or as dry food for hiking.
As the saying goes: "Qingming Zongzi is real." Before and after Qingming, snails were fat and strong. Eating lotus root is to wish the silkworm baby a long and good spin. Eating sprouted beans is a lottery to win "money". Eating fresh vegetables like Malantou means taking the word "green" to match the "green" of "Qingming".