During the Qingming Festival, the rain is pouring, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.
Where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy refers to the apricot blossom village.
- "Qingming" Tang Du Mu
Today is April 5, 2022,
The year of the tiger is on Friday, The first friday of March
It's another year of green grass, and another year of clarity.
The Almanac has clouds: "Fifteen days after the spring equinox, the douzhi Ding, for the qingming, when all things are clean and clear, when the qi is clear and clear, all things are clear, so it is named." ”
Qingming Festival and Qingming are on the same day, and Chinese festivals, which are both festivals and festivals, only Qingming.
01 Qingming history
The name of the Qingming Festival is related to the characteristics of the weather at this time. Although the Qingming Festival as a festival was only formed in the Tang Dynasty, the Qingming Festival as a sign of timing has long been recognized by the ancients.
In the "Huainanzi Astronomical Training" of the Western Han Dynasty, it is said: "Fifteen days after the spring equinox, if the dou refers to B, the wind will arrive in the qingming."
"Clear wind" is a refreshing and clear wind.
The Hundred Questions of the Age says, "All things grow at this time, all are clean and clear." Therefore, it is called qingming. ”
Qingming is not only due to the clean and pure growth of all things at this time, but also because the sun of this period is also a fresh sun, and the yang that flows between heaven and earth in this period is also a fresh yang.
As soon as the Qingming Arrives, the temperature rises, which is the good season for spring ploughing, so there is a saying that "before and after the Qingming Dynasty, plant melons and beans".
Around the time of the Tang Dynasty, the Qingming Festival integrated the content of the Shangwei Festival, because the Tomb of the Qingming Dynasty had to go to the suburbs, in addition to mourning the ancestors, it was also a way to change the mood by the way in the bright spring light.
Wang Weiyou, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, has a poem: "Teenagers travel every day, and do not need to be clear and clean and shangwei."
The Song Dynasty continued the previous generation of cold food Qingming customs, and the Qingming Festival became a traditional festival that integrated cold food customs with activities such as Shangwei Qingqing.
During the Tang Dynasty, the cold food Qingming holiday was four days, and later continued to seven days. During the Song Dynasty, a seven-day holiday was stipulated. It can be seen that the Qingming Festival has always been valued.
At this point, the Qingming Festival has become a comprehensive festival that integrates "solar terms" and "festival customs", which is not only one of the twenty-four solar terms, but also one of the most important festivals of chinese traditional festivals, ancestor worship and tomb sweeping.
02 Three Marquises of the Qing Dynasty
A waiting for Tong Shihua
At this time, the tung trees begin to bloom. Pure white tung flowers bloom in the wind and blossom for a few years.
The second field mouse turns into a wagtail
The voles hid back in their burrows as the sun grew stronger, and the yang-loving birds began to come out and move.
Voles are the most yin thing, and the wagyu bird is the most yang thing.
The vole turns into a wagtail, which means that the yin qi is hidden and the yang qi is gradually flourishing.
The three rainbows began to see
Rainbow is the qi of yin and yang, pure yin and pure yang are none, if the cloud is thin and leaks the sun, and the sun wears rain shadow, then the rainbow is seen.
03 Qingming customs
sacrifice
Du Mushiyun: During the Qingming Festival, the rain is pouring, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.
On this day, we sweep the graves of our ancestors, which is not only to honor our ancestors and not to forget the great dedication of our predecessors; it is also to pursue the distant and send infinite mourning to future generations.
Step on the spring
The two wheat in the high field are green in the mountains, and the low fields in the water are green and unpulterated. Peach apricots fill the village like spring, and the song is drummed over the Qingming.
During the Qingming Dynasty, in addition to sweeping the tomb. Another major event is spring. Spring returns to the earth in April, and the spring colors everywhere are just right, we must not only remember the ancestors, but also grasp the present.
Cutting willows
Proverb Cloud: "Qingming does not wear willows, and the red face turns white." ”
In the concept of the ancients, take the willow branch to the house, and a hundred ghosts will not enter the house. Therefore, the Qingming planting willow and wearing willow is mainly for the purpose of warding off evil spirits.
Fly a kite
In April, spring blossoms.
People will write their illness and suffering on the kite, and when the kite flies into the blue sky, it will cut the lead and go with the wind.
Therefore, in addition to flying kites as an entertainment activity, it also has the meaning of removing obscurity.
tree planting
"Before and after the Qingming Dynasty, plant melons and beans."
During the Qingming Festival, people like to plant pine and cypress trees in front of the tomb to send their thoughts, so that the deceased relatives have a home, and the living people have the sustenance of their thoughts.
04 Qingming food
Youth League
During the Qingming Dynasty, Jiangnan has the custom of eating green dumplings.
The green dough, with wormwood juice or the juice of pulp wheatgrass, mixed into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped in bean paste filling, is not sweet or greasy, with a light but long grass aroma.
Qingming fruit
Anhui, Jiangxi and other southern provinces of the mainland mostly eat Qingming fruit during the Qingming Festival.
Qingming fruit and Qingtuan are similar, but slightly different. First, qingming fruit is mostly dumpling-type. Second, the filling in the Qingming fruit is mostly spiced dried bamboo shoots, etc., which are salty; the green dough is mainly filled with bean paste and sweet filling. Third, Qingming fruit usually uses rat grass, while Qingtuan likes to use wormwood.
Ai (bǎn)
There is an old Saying in The Hakka, which is called "Eat Mugwort before and after the Qingming Dynasty, and don't get sick all year round."
Ai Ling is a must-have traditional snack for Hakka families during the Qingming Festival. Like the raw materials of the green dough, glutinous rice and wormwood juice are also used. The shape is slightly different, and most of them will be pressed into a flat circle.
Sub push steamed cake
Commonly known as steamed cake, it is a traditional food in Shanxi and is said to have a history of more than 2,500 years.
Zi Tui steamed cake, according to legend, is a kind of cooked food handed down from the Cold Food Festival, people in order to commemorate the loyal and honest meson Tui, on the day of his death, do not hold fireworks, nor eat hot food, so this day is called the Cold Food Festival.
Snails
Before and after the Qingming Dynasty, the snails were fat. As the saying goes: "Qingming snail, race goose." "Farmers have the habit of eating snails in the Qingming Dynasty, and on this day they use needles to pick out the snail meat for cooking, called "picking green".
Rice dumplings
When you see Zongzi, can't help but wonder if you ran the wrong field?
However, it is not, you know, the first time to eat zongzi is not the Dragon Boat Festival, but the cold food of the day before the Qingming Dynasty.
At present, the custom of eating rice dumplings in Tangqi, Changxing and Wujiang is still prevalent. As the saying goes, "Qingming Zongzi is stable and firm", "Zongzi" is the harmonic sound of "all the sons", which means that people are prosperous.
Peach blossom porridge
In addition to the above few traditional dishes of the Qingming Dynasty, the ancients would also cook porridge with fresh peach petals during the Qingming Festival and boil it into a bowl of peach blossom porridge.
Tang Fengzhen's "Miscellaneous Records of Yunxian" poem Yun: "Luoyang people," cold food is packed with thousands of flowers, and peach blossom porridge is boiled." ”
05 Qingming, the heavens on earth are all healthy
Zeng Ziyi said: "Cautiously pursue the distance in the end, and the people's morality returns to the thick." "Qingming sacrifice sweeping is the most important custom in Chinese.
In the life of Chinese, worship the ancestors is to remember. Remember your last name, remember your first name. Remember where you came from and why you started. Only by remembering the past can we see where tomorrow is going.
We weeded and swept in front of the graves of our ancestors, put offerings, burned paper money and gold ingots, or simply offered a bouquet of flowers and whispered our thoughts about our loved ones.
Chinese ancestor worship, perhaps believing not in the souls of ghosts and gods, but in the love of our relatives for us, which will not disappear, they just change places and live in our hearts.
The real meaning of the Qingming Festival, in addition to not forgetting, is also cherished.
Cherish the good time of the moment, cherish the relatives and friends in front of you, and cherish everything you have.
Living well and living well is the best tribute to the deceased.
Turn thoughts into motivation and move forward more easily; take worry as the foundation and turn into encouragement; let separation become the past, and let the future become promising.
Life must go on, after mourning, and sing and walk, greet the spring, and continue your life journey.
Do what you want to do and leave fewer regrets to make sense.
Drizzle, weeping willows, and broken souls of pedestrians are the remembrance of the deceased;
The growth of all things, the gentle wind and the smoothness, the clear sky and the earth, is a blessing to the living;
All things have spirits, and a few branches are sent in the spring, but may the heavens on earth be safe and healthy.
Let's live up to the spring
Cherish every one today
Let us be grateful
Moving forward with your head held high
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Part of the source of the picture: Sichuan Education Release Editor: Gou Yafan
Review: Huang Hao