Apr 04, 2022
Tomb-Sweeping Day
Qingming Festival, also known as taqingjie, falls on the 104th day after the winter Solstice. It is one of the traditional Chinese festivals and one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is a time for ancestor worship and tomb sweeping. The traditional Tomb-sweeping Day of The Han nationality in China began about the Zhou Dynasty, which has a history of more than 2,500 years ago. Influenced by the Han culture, China's Manchu, Hezhen, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing, Qiang and other 24 ethnic minorities also have the custom of Qingming Festival. Toner bottle Although customs vary from place to place, tomb sweeping, ancestor worship, outing is the basic theme. In some areas of southern China, it is the custom to eat green dumplings at Tomb Sweeping Day. Green dumplings are also called The Dumplings of Qingming Festival cake, cotton steamed dumplings, tzi-shell cakes, Qingming Cake, Mugwormwood leaves baba, Aiming Dumplings, Fruit of Qingming Festival, Pineapple cake, Qingming Festival cake, wormwood leaves glutinous rice cake, Rice dumplings, Wormwood cake, and so on. In the hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian, every Qingming Festival must make some cakes, kuiji and rice brown, before and after the qingming Festival for the family to eat. According to an old Shanghai custom, people can prepare steamed cakes for sacrifice on lixia day by hanging them on wicker sticks. On lixia day, they can fry them in oil and give them to children. It is said that eating them can prevent them from getting summer disease. In Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, every family wraps zongzi on Tomb-sweeping Day, which can be used as a sacrifice to go to the grave or as dry food for spring outing. As the saying goes :" Qingming Zongzi firmly." Around qingming festival, snails are fat and strong. Eating lotus root is to wish the silk of silkworm baby is long and good. Eating faye beans is to win the word "rich". When eating fresh vegetables such as malan, the word "green" is taken to match the "green" of "Qingming festival". More info at www.qiaonengpackaging.com
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