Qingming is a solar term representing phenology, which means sunny weather and lush vegetation.
3. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in customs, which can be summarized into two festivals and traditions: one is to respect the ancestors and be cautious to the end; The second is outing and getting close to nature.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, also known as Youth Day. It is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals, and it is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves.
Tomb-Sweeping Day mourns the heroes and great men who died for the birth of new China, because we have a happy life now, because of them!
6. Tomb-Sweeping Day, let's send tears of yearning to our deceased relatives and friends and pay high tribute to the revolutionary martyrs!
7. Send you a willow, wear a willow, and wish you peace! Tomb-Sweeping Day, I especially wish my good friends health and happiness!
Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only one of the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional festival with a long history.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important folk festival in Fuzhou. Tomb-Sweeping Day is15th day after the vernal equinox every year. On or around the same day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family went for an outing in the suburbs and went up the mountain to worship their ancestors and sweep their graves. That is, weeding and cultivating the graves of ancestors. Some people will plant an evergreen pine and cypress or other trees next to the graves. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household in Fuzhou had to make spinach buns. Now, the "Mi's" shop on the street also sells a lot of spinach buns.
10, the customs and habits of eating green zongzi in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Jiangnan. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is exquisite sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. Jiaozi cooked it and steamed it in a cage. When they come out, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done.
1 1, Zanzi
Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world.
12, Qingming fruit
Cotton vegetables (also known as sage) picked in the field in southern Zhejiang are called "Foer grass" in Chinese herbal medicine books, which has the function of relieving cough and resolving phlegm. They are mixed with glutinous rice flour to soften, stuffed with sugar bean paste or shredded white radish and bamboo shoots, and steamed into clear fruits, which are blue in color and particularly delicious to eat.
Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household has to make a kind of food called Qingming fruit, which is used to sweep graves and worship ancestors. In my impression, the arrival of Tomb-Sweeping Day means that I can repay the clear fruit with the fragrance of green.