The day after tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, Tang Bohu said in the poem: "After the Mid-Autumn Festival moon is unknown, after the Qingming flower is not good." The flowers fall before the moon and sing, and it is urgent to pour a full golden bottle. ”
Qingming can be described as one of the most poetic festivals among the 24 solar terms.
Qingming Festival, also known as Stepping Youth Festival, is Qingming Festival around April 5th of the Gregorian calendar, and among the twenty-four solar terms, only Qingming is both a solar term and a festival.
Qingming Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals of sacrifice, which is a day to worship ancestors and visit tombs. It is not only a festival for people to pay homage to their ancestors and remember their ancestors, but also a link for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, but also a spring ceremony for hiking, getting close to nature, and urging new births.
Although customs vary from place to place, tomb sweeping and ancestral outings are the basic themes.
How much do children know about such an important holiday? Let's get to know the Qingming Festival with Qingqing Rabbit today!
First, the origin of Qingming Festival
Although the Qingming Festival has a long historical origin, it was popular nationwide and the tomb cleaning holiday was held after the Tang and Song Dynasties.
The Qingming Festival has a long history, which has changed with the development of the times, and gradually integrated the customs of the Hanshi Festival and the Shangshi Festival. In ancient times, there were different customs in the north and south of China, and before the Tang Dynasty, tomb cleaning in northern China was mainly in the Cold Food Festival and Cold Clothing Festival, and by the Tang Dynasty, tomb sacrifices on the Qingming Festival had become a custom.
The Tang Dynasty was a period of convergence of tomb festival customs from all parts of northern and southern China, following the Qingming tomb festival customs and expanding to all parts of the country.
In 1935, the government of the Republic of China designated April 5 as a national holiday.
2. The customs of Qingming Festival
1. Tomb sweeping
Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship is one of the important contents of Qingming.
Qingming tomb sweeping, called "respecting the times" of ancestors, is a way to remember ancestors, and its custom has a long history. Qingming Festival has carried rich cultural connotations in historical development, and there are differences in customs and content or details in different regions across the country.
Qingming etiquette culture fully embodies the humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation of respecting ancestors and cautiously pursuing the future.
2. Stepping blue
Stepping on the youth is also called spring swimming. In ancient times, it was called Tanchun, Xunchun and so on. April is clear, spring returns to the earth, and nature is full of vitality, which is a good time for outings.
At this time when spring is warm, parents should actively take their children to the youth. There are many benefits to taking children to the green, don't stay at home with your children, get closer to nature!
Let children enjoy plenty of sunshine and fresh air, receive subtle education in nature, and at the same time, every grass and tree in nature will stimulate children's endless desire to chase and exercise children's bodies.
3. Fly a kite
Kite flying, also known as "paper kite" and "kite", is a popular activity during the Qingming Festival.
It is not only a recreational activity, but also to pray for the letting go of bad luck, eliminating disasters and bringing good luck. Let the children decorate the kite with their own and watch the hand-decorated kite soar over the blue sky, hoping that the kite will take away their troubles and leave good luck.
It is also educational for children and allows them to inherit traditional customs.
Besides, taking your kids outdoors to fly kites has so many benefits. First of all, the interaction between parents and children can enhance the relationship, and secondly, you can keep children away from electronic products, don't keep staring at TV, computers, mobile phones, etc., why not?
3. Taste the taste of spring
When it comes to the food that comes to Qingming's mind, it must be a soft and sticky Qingtuan!
Just like the Lantern Festival to boil tangyuan, the Dragon Boat Festival to wrap rice dumplings, like other traditional festivals in the mainland, the Qingming Festival also has a characteristic "food custom" - Qingtuan.
Fresh wormwood and green wheat are juiced, glutinous rice flour is made into a skin, and then steamed with bean paste filling.
Of course, people will not only be satisfied with the traditional bean paste filling, in recent years, the sweet and salty egg yolk meat floss flavor Qingtuan, but also broke through the traditional bean paste filling has become a hot "Internet celebrity food" everywhere.
Oil green like jade, glutinous and soft, the fragrance of wormwood mixed with the sweetness of the filling, can be said to be the most spring-flavored delicacy, do children want to make their own cute Qingtuan handicrafts? Come with the green rabbit!
Material preparation:
Cardboard baseplate, wrinkled paper, ultra-light mud, foam ball, double-sided tape.
Procedure:
1. Insert the raised part of one end of the jammed paper into the corresponding cut of the other carded paper.
2. Insert the bottom plate into the cut on the jammed paper.
3. Fix it with double-sided adhesive.
4. Wrap the foam balls in thin discs with ultra-light mud.
5. Wrap the finished youth ball in wrinkled paper.
6. Put the wrapped balls in the "steamer".