Original: Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, men and women in the city rushed out of the suburbs, carrying boxes and wheels facing each other. Everyone takes a kite spool, and after the sacrifice, it is best to throw it in front of the grave. Beijing-made paper kites are highly skilled and valuable, and Liulichang is easy to market. As the saying goes, "There is no willow in Qingming Festival, and the dog will be yellow in the afterlife." And put the wicker through a sacrificial ceremony to fry it in summer and give it to children, which means there is no summer.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a national folk ceremony.
In the Qing Dynasty, Beijingers "swept the graves on Qingming Day, and men and women in the whole city flocked out from the suburbs, carrying boxes and confronting each other at the hub. Everyone brings a kite spool, and it will be better to put it in front of the grave after the sacrifice. "
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Kaifeng people in Zhengzhou, Henan Province were "Qingming". They go to the grave, add new soil and bring sacrifices to sweep the grave, which is called "sacrificial sweeping". During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, people in Jiexiu County, Jinzhong, Shanxi Province were "Qingming", and rich families set up sacrificial villages to advocate the tombs of provincial relatives; Poor people also make bread like snakes. When they go home, they will expose their bread to hedges and thorns. Once it is dry, eat it, otherwise it is like a dragon snake, which is also a legacy of cold food. "
During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, people in Huashan County, Changsha County, Hunan Province went to the tomb for "cold food" and "Qingming Festival", cut out bamboo branches with natural paper and put them on the tomb to worship. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, people in Wenchang County, Hainan Province were "Qingming", offering sacrifices to their ancestors to sweep graves and cut thorns.