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origin
Ancestor worship has been practiced for thousands of years and is an ancient festival of profound significance. According to historical records, during the Three Kingdoms period, tomb sacrifices have become an indispensable ritual activity, and the "Hanshu YanyanNian Biography" records that even if the Yan clan was thousands of miles away from Beijing, they had to "return to the East China Sea to sweep the tomb" in the Qingming Dynasty.
With the increasing strengthening of ancestor worship and kinship awareness, tomb sacrifices that were not included in the norms in ancient times were also included in the "five rites", and the respect of the imperial court later made tomb sacrifice activities more popular.
significance
Chinese sacrifice to the ancestors is a moral belief, a poetic act of expressing emotions, and a gratitude and remembrance from individual emotions. Feng Youlan once said, "The ritual is not because the ghosts and gods really exist, but the people who worship the ancestors are out of filial piety to the ancestors, so the meaning of the ceremony is poetic, not religious."
Everyone knows that the wine of the sacrifice is "a drop of he has reached the nine springs", but we believe that our relatives and ancestors can receive our affection and sacrifice, and this solemn ceremony is an emotional, poetic, and moral truth.
"People, poetically inhabiting the earth", facing the photos or tombstones of ancestors, expressing strong thoughts and sincere respects, is the happiness and motivation for us to live in this ancient land.
Diet /QingMing
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Youth League
Qingtuan is the most representative food in the Qingming Season, green and green, sticky and soft, not sweet and not greasy, with a light but long grass aroma, eating in the mouth is even more fragrant and smooth. This custom can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago, because the cold food festival can not make a fire, so people will prepare a lot of pastries in advance to fill their hunger. The green dough is made of green wormwood and glutinous rice flour and then stuffed with bean paste, which can be preserved for 3 to 5 days, so as to meet the needs of people to sacrifice and eat without cooking. The Youth League has been developing until now, and its function as a sacrifice is increasingly diluted, and it is more to bring people an early experience.
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Steamed buns
Eating steamed buns during the Qingming Festival is a traditional custom. Fried buns are fried noodles made by deep-frying noodles, which are made by rolling rice noodles into thin strips and frying them in oil. Different shapes, or twist flowers, or grid-shaped, yellow and bright color, crispy to eat, the more chewy the more fragrant. From the cold food festival to ban the fire, at that time many places will prepare to sprinkle, so that there is something to eat when the fire is prohibited, the cost of sprinkling is relatively low, and easy to preserve, the taste is crisp and crispy, very popular with the people, so it has been passed down to the present.
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Egg
When it comes to the Qingming Festival, the old people in the family will prepare some eggs, which has a very auspicious meaning, eating eggs on the Qingming Festival means that the new year can be healthy, and the people in the family will not get sick. Eating eggs in the Qingming Dynasty is called eating "knot eggs", and there are two kinds of knotted eggs, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". The colorful eggs painted can be eaten, while the "carved eggs" are only for fun. Hard-boiled eggs, good at preservation, simple collocation, you can live a full of hunger, is the first choice for people to spend the cold food festival!
Customs / QingMing
Sweep the grave to worship the ancestors
Tomb sweeping, originally the custom of cold food on the day before the Qingming Dynasty (or three days before), has gradually merged into the Qingming Dynasty since the Tang Dynasty, and has become the custom of the Qingming Festival. It is called the "respect for the time" of the ancestors.
Fly a kite
Flying kites during the Qingming Dynasty is a popular custom. For the ancients, kite flying was not only a recreational activity, but also an act of witchcraft: they believed that flying a kite could free themselves of their filth.
Outing
During the Qingming Dynasty, spring returns to the earth, and everywhere is a vibrant scene, which is a good time for spring travel. Mainland folk have long maintained the habit of walking in the Qing Dynasty.
Although Qingming is suitable for stepping on the green, but now is a special period of the epidemic, the little mushrooms still try not to go out!
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