"It rains in the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village. " This is a poem about Tomb-Sweeping Day written by Du Mu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. Tomb-Sweeping Day seems to have a history of thousands of years.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a traditional festival in China, but also an important festival for ancestor worship and grave sweeping. In my hometown, Yuexi, Suzhou, Tomb-Sweeping Day has many customs, such as hiking, sweeping graves, eating green jiaozi and so on. When sweeping graves, people will bring food, wine, paper money and other items to their relatives' graves, where they will pay homage to food, then burn paper money, kowtow to worship and express their grief. In previous years, when sweeping graves, everyone would climb to the top of the mountain to pick some azaleas and put them in front of the grave. But this year, perhaps because of the temperature, the azaleas haven't opened yet, so we have to pull out some grass and put it in front of the grave.

When I was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the green jiaozi was a delicacy in my hometown. It is said that it is steamed with the juice of a plant and glutinous rice flour, and can be wrapped with sweet noodle sauce or jujube paste. Sweet and delicious. However, green jiaozi is not easy to digest when eaten too much. Therefore, after eating Green jiaozi, people will engage in various outdoor fitness activities, such as climbing mountains, flying kites and swinging. This has also become a custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In the breezy spring, people worship their ancestors to sweep graves, taste green jiaozi and climb mountains to keep fit. It seems that Tomb-Sweeping Day designed by the ancients is really thoughtful!