A short story about Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Why don't Manchu people set off fireworks at the Cold Food Festival? In memory of Mrs. Mao Mu who saved her ancestor Wang Han. People in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Hua Meng City, Tomb-Sweeping Day planted willows to thank Liu Qing, a native of Hua Meng, for saving people in from the mire under the poison of officers and men. Tomb-Sweeping Day, a Yao woman in Jinping County, Yunnan Province, put flowers on her head to thank the snake that fought with the thief, saved her master and died heroically.

Tomb-Sweeping Day in Suzhou and Changshu, Jiangsu, likes to eat fermented cakes before and after, which originated from Zhang Shicheng, the rebel leader in Jiangsu and Zhejiang at the end of Yuan Dynasty, to thank the old man who saved his mother with bread when her mother was in danger. During the Qingming Festival, farmers in Zhujiage, Tongxiang, Zhejiang, not only set up tables of food and wine in the hall to worship their ancestors, but also set up a table of food and wine and 18 pairs of chopsticks in the corridor outside the hall to worship 18 "ancestors outside the hall".

It is to commemorate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 18 Warriors who brought benefits to Zhujia Pavilion.

Tomb-Sweeping Day Fusion Cold Food Festival

In the Tang Dynasty, both literati and civilians regarded sweeping graves at the Cold Food Festival as a ritual festival to trace the roots. Because Tomb-Sweeping Day is close to the Cold Food Festival, people often extend the grave sweeping to Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Tomb-Sweeping Day gradually rose from being attached to the Cold Food Festival to replacing it. Not only were grave-sweeping and grave-sweeping ceremonies held in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but the original customs and activities of the Cold Food Festival, such as cold food, cuju and swinging, were also taken over by Tomb-Sweeping Day.