The Almanac says, "On the fifteenth day after the spring equinox, the Dou Zhi Ding, for the Sake of Qingming, when all things are clean and clear, when the Qi is clear and clear, all things are revealed, hence the name." "Between the shifts of the stars, the refreshing and clear spring breeze blows on the face, the temperature warms up, the heavens and the earth are thriving, a spring and the image of Jingming, this season pays attention to "spitting out the old and the new".
At this time the mountain city of Chongqing
Autumn leaves and green willows, birds and insects singing babbling streams;
Two rivers and four banks, the chehe river and the sea of flowers are crowded with people;
The willow leaves rise with the wind, and the ginkgo blossoms with new shoots,
The city shows the trend of spring and jingming.
As one of the important traditional festivals in China, there are customs of sweeping tombs to worship ancestors and taking outings around the Qingming Festival. This is not only a festival for people to pay homage to their ancestors and remember the martyrs, but also a bond for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, and more importantly, to remember their ancestors, examine their own shortcomings, correct their words and deeds, and drive and influence future generations.
What are the customs of the Qingming people in Chongqing?
Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. The traditional Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,000 years. After continuous development and evolution, the customs of the Qingming Festival are extremely rich, and tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outings are the basic themes.
Tomb sweeping spring tour, family travel together
Chongqing's unique mountain city topography determines the unique mountaineering feelings of the local people, before and after the Qingming Festival, Chongqing people have the custom of visiting the tomb with their families in the spring: go to the tomb of the ancestors, hang the Qingming paper, offer flowers, remember relatives, and cherish the present.
Tomb sweeping is usually on the mountain, and the family takes advantage of this spring tour. In the past, Chongqing people had the custom of eating cold food during the Qingming Dynasty, and the previous "cold food" was often a pot and helmet sandwiched with brine vegetables and cold dishes. This "Japanese dish" is made of vermicelli, shredded lettuce, shredded pork (or shredded chicken), and cold mixed with tsubaki buds. Nowadays, there are also foods such as cold noodles, sake dishes, candy and biscuits to eat in the suburbs.
Make Qingming Rice Dumplings
Chongqing people have a special love for rice dumplings. Around the time of the Qingming Festival, people pick up the Qingming vegetables (also known as sage grass), chop them, and burn them with flour, glutinous rice noodles or corn flour, plus salt or sugar to make a soup, put it to the nose and smell it, there is a unique fragrance of Qingming cuisine, put it in the mouth and chew, soft and sticky.
Qingming rice is actually not much high-end food in today's rich material life, and Chongqing people are more concerned about the family can get together in such a day of reminiscence of ancestors, easily and comfortably do a traditional and meaningful thing, which is also an extremely precious custom in the modern society of division of labor.
Plant willow trees and fly kites
Qingming and Qing Dynasty, the traditional customs also have the habit of planting willows and planting trees, which is not only related to the legend of the Jin Wen Gong Sacrifice, but also closely related to the life experience that people have summarized for a long time. The willow tree gets the spring before, and every year when winter and spring change, when the four fields are still depressed, it is always the first to spit out new green and bring hope. Therefore, before and after the Qingming Dynasty, people will always plant willow trees during outings or farming, plant hopes, harvest dreams, and pick willow branches and hang them on the door to pray for good luck.
Similarly, Qingming Festival is a very beautiful time of year. The wind and the sun are beautiful, not cold and dry, it is the day when children are happy and playing, so the Qingming Festival also has customs such as taking children to fly kites and swing.
Pear blossoms lag behind Qingming
The most popular poem about Qingming is "During the Qingming Festival, the rain is pouring, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." Asking where the restaurant was, the shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom village. In fact, the poetry of the Qingming Festival has always been integrated into the beautiful spring.
The willows are weeping, the rain is slight, and the blossom season will always give people a continuous poetic feeling. Light rain slowly walks to watch passers-by, and spring is good to help drink. The trail is green and green, touching the past and thinking about the past. In the past, poets would always touch the scenery on the day of the Qingming Festival, or fold the willow to bid farewell and plant willows into the shade. Or reminisce about the past, and the green smoke is gone. Or think deeply, feel the past and sigh the present. Or cherish goodbye, deep friendship. Qingming Festival always gives people the richest gifts emotionally!
Qingming accompanies the family
Qingming is not only a festival, but also a rare family reunion day in modern urban life, and a festival to reminisce about the past and remember the ancestors.
This Qingming holiday, remember to take your family back to your hometown, remember to pay tribute to the deceased ancestors, precipitate a busy and impetuous mood, accompany your family and friends to the countryside, tell about long-term worries and near-term worries, and cherish the good people around you.
Under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, we must also pay due attention to the content of epidemic prevention and eat a light diet. Walking in the countryside to prevent mosquito bites, Tennongtao recommends wearing anti-mosquito repellent sachets (click to buy), which is both beautiful and generous and can repel mosquitoes and refresh, in one fell swoop.
The Hundred Questions of the Age says, "All things grow at this time, all are clean and clear." Therefore, it is called qingming. "Those who care about you must also be silently blessing you: a clear and bright life."
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