What are Ching Ming Festival's customs?

Qingming Festival is the fifth solar term in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, indicating the official beginning of the spring season. Qingming Solar terms are handed over when the sun reaches 15 degrees longitude. Chinese tradition divides the Qingming Festival into three pentads every 5 days from Qingming Festival. Tong Shihua, voles, voles and rainbows are first seen at this time, meaning that the white tung flowers bloom first, and then the overcast voles disappear and all return to the underground cave. Then the rainbow can be seen in the sky after the rain.

Outing

Outing is also called exploring spring, seeking spring and outing, which means stepping on the grass, playing in the countryside and watching the spring. With the Qingming Festival in April and the return of spring, nature is full of vitality, which is a good time for outing. The folk of our country have maintained the habit of Qingming Festival outing for a long time. It is a good time for outing before and after the Qingming Festival, so it has become an important part of Ching Ming Festival's custom.

Cuju

Ju is a kind of leather ball, the ball is made of leather, the inside of the ball is stuffed with hair, the ball is inflated in the Tang Dynasty, Cuju is to play football with feet, this is a favorite game of ancient Ching Ming Festival, it is said to be invented by the Yellow Emperor, the original purpose is to train samurai, so far we call football.

Swing

Playing on the swing is the custom of Ching Ming Festival in ancient China, the swing means to move by the leather rope, the history is very old, the earliest called Qianqiu, and then changed to swing in order to avoid taboo. In ancient times, swings were often made of branches and ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Playing on the swing can not only improve health, but also cultivate bravery, which has been loved by people, especially children.

Fly a kite

Flying kites is also a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. During the Qingming Festival, people put it not only during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of colored lanterns are hung under the kite or on the wind-steady cable, like twinkling stars, which are called "magic lanterns". In the past, after some people flew kites into the blue sky, they cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to themselves.

Planting trees

Qingming Festival is the day after the cold food, which belongs to the season of clear air and clear scenery, everything showing, vegetation spitting green. After mourning, when you look up into the future, spring comes after winter. During the cold food, people offer sacrifices to mourn, and after the cold food, they go out for an outing, fly kites, play on the swings, and insert a few willows to see it become shady in the future. And in the cold food, occasionally accidentally burn the vegetation on the mountain, cold food in the past, Qingming Festival comes, it is time to plant more trees to make up. The spirit of our ancestors, like the trees on the mountain, is evergreen, and human life should also be like the newly planted trees, growing and upward in this spring breeze. Therefore, Qingming Festival is also China's traditional Arbor Day. Qingming Festival has numerous business opportunities.

Touch eggs

Every Qingming Festival, there are always several children who are willing to touch eggs. To touch eggs is to put two eggs together and pinch each other to see who can crush each other's eggs. Because you can't eat hot food, this game has become a favorite of children.

Cold Food Festival

The Winter Solstice after 105 days is called cold food, before this day no fire, eat cold food, so it is also known as "cold festival", "no smoking festival". According to folklore, cold food commemorates that Jie Zitui was burned in Mianshan in the Spring and Autumn period, and the Duke of Wen in Jin ordered a fire ban. Jie Zitui is from Shanxi, so the cold food custom is first popular in Shanxi. The old cold food cut off the fire, and the next day there was a ceremony of drilling wood for new fire in the palace, and the folk often begged each other for new fire with wicker.