Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China. Naturally, there are customs and activities handed down from ancient times. However, different regions in the South have different customs. However, the most important custom of Qingming Festival is to offer sacrifices to ancestors and sweep tombs, no matter in the South or the north. If you want to further understand the customs of Qingming Festival, let's take a look at the complete collection of traditional customs of Qingming Festival brought by Xiaobian.
The traditional customs of Qingming Festival
Tomb Sweeping: Tomb Sweeping custom has a long history. Every year during the Qingming Festival, people have to clean up the weeds, add loose soil, and make the cemetery clean. At the same time, they pray that the ancestors can protect the future generations.
Outing: Qingming Festival is spring, the weather is clear, it is the most suitable day for traveling, so every spring, people will go out for outing on Qingming Day, feeling the vigorous scene of spring. The traditional customs of Qingming Festival
Tree planting: Although China's tree planting day is on March 12 every year, at the beginning, the time of tree planting day was set at Qingming Festival, so Qingming Festival is also a very suitable time for tree planting. Planting trees is an important activity of greening the environment. I hope all the people can participate in it.
Swing: This is the most popular Qingming Festival custom in ancient times, and it is also very popular today. Swing can improve people's health, but also can cultivate children's courage.
Kite flying: during the Qingming Festival, people from all over the world will fly kites in a wide and windy place. This is not only a way of amusement, but also a way to eliminate diseases and eliminate disasters. That is to say, after flying the kites, cut the strings and let the kites go with the wind, which means that diseases fly with the wind. The traditional customs of Qingming Festival
Cuju: it's also a kind of ball game. It's the favorite sport of Qingming Festival in ancient times, which is equivalent to football now.
The difference of Qingming Festival customs between the South and the north is mainly reflected in their eating habits. Let's go to see the food customs of the South and the north.
North: Sanzi in the north is mainly made of wheat flour, and likes to eat zitoumo, Zifu, haozibaba, zaogao, Mianhua, qingmingguo, scallion and egg cake.
Southern: Southern Sanzi is exquisite and meticulous, mainly made of rice flour. Like to eat pancakes, steamed Puzi, Aibo, qingtuanzi, mustard rice, runbiancai and Wuren rice.