Qingming, qi qing jingming, all things are visible, is the fifth solar term of the twenty-four solar terms, hence the name. Qingming Festival, also known as The Qingqing Festival, the Xingqing Festival, the March Festival, the Ancestor Worship Festival, etc., is held at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the ancestral beliefs and spring festival customs of the ancient times, and has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is both a natural festival point and a traditional festival. Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outingings are the two major themes of the Qingming Festival, and these two traditional ritual themes have been passed down in China since ancient times and have not stopped.
Qingming Festival traditional customs
Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, a solemn festival of sweeping tombs and worshiping ancestors, that is, "tomb sacrifice", which is called "respect for the time" for ancestors. Qingming Festival has a long history, originating from the ancestral beliefs and spring festival customs of ancient times.
Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has had the custom of walking in the Green Age. In ancient times, it was called exploring spring, seeking spring, etc., that is, spring outing, also known as "stepping spring". It generally refers to going for a walk in the countryside in early spring. This kind of seasonal folk activity has a long history in the mainland, and its source is the ancient custom of spring festivals, which has a profound impact on future generations.
Qingming grass and trees grow
Qingming is a solar term that reflects the phenological changes in nature, this season is sunny, the grass and trees are budding, the flowers are blooming, the atmosphere is clear, everything is displayed, and the natural world presents a vibrant scene. At this time in the southern part of the mainland, the climate is already refreshing and warm, and the earth is showing the image of spring and jingming. Snow also began to break in the northern region, gradually entering the sunny spring; the northern region at this time the temperature rises quickly, precipitation is scarce, dry and windy, is the time of year when the sand and dust weather is abundant.
Qingming · Three Marquises
1
A waiting for Tong Shihua
●Tong refers to the white tung flower. It means that Qingming has come, white tung flowers bloom, and Qingfen is pleasant. In the spring, everything recovers, and by the time of the Qingming Dynasty, the yang qi is more abundant, and all kinds of flowers are competing to bloom.
2
The second field mouse turns into a quail
● Quail refers to a bird of the quail class. The voles hid back in their burrows as the sun grew stronger, and the birds that loved the sun began to move.
3
The three rainbows began to see
● The rainbow is the rainbow in the sky, indicating that there is a lot of rain during the Qingming Season, so the rainbow appears.
Qingming Festival traditional diet
【Sub-pushing bun】
In Shanxi, every Qingming Festival, people eat steamed buns. The sub-tui steamed bun is named in honor of the meson push. The sub-tui steamed bun is a white noodle to pinch out various shapes such as swallows, snakes, and white rabbits, plus food color embellishment. For thousands of years, people have expressed their admiration and nostalgia for their ancestors with zi pushing and shoving.
【Qingjing Rice】
Green rice, also known as black rice. Qingjing rice existed before the Ming Dynasty. According to Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica", Qingjing rice is made by soaking glutinous rice in the soup juice from the leaves of the black rice tree. Freshly baked green rice is sweet and delicious, the color is dark green, and the sticky rice in the rice exudes the freshness of nature.
【Run Cake】
In the southern Fujian region, people will eat run cakes every Qingming Festival. Run cake, also known as "spring cake", consists of a thin layer of dough skin wrapped in spring shoots, carrot shreds, cabbage shreds, leeks, crisp seaweed, pork legs, shrimp, egg skin shreds and other fillings, not only nutritious, but also tender and sweet. Although the process of making the cake is cumbersome, the family making the cake together is the collision of family affection and folklore.
【Steamed Buns】
In Anhui, Jiangsu and other places, a Qingming food called "steamed bread" is very popular. It is a ring-shaped pasta with yellow color, light and beautiful, dry and crisp and delicious, and melted in the mouth after soaking milk. It was also first born as a cold food for the Cold Food Festival.
【Youth League】
Qingtuan is a traditional dim sum eaten by Jiangnan people in the Qingming Festival, according to the research of the Qingtuan said to have begun about the Tang Dynasty, has a history of more than 1,000 years, every Time the Qingming almost to steam qingtuan, in ancient times people do the qingtuan mainly used as a sacrifice, although the qingtuan has been passed down for thousands of years, the appearance has not changed, but its function as a sacrifice has been increasingly diluted, but has become a very seasonal snack.
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