What does Tomb-Sweeping Day mean by folding willows and wearing flowers?

It is a folk custom to insert willow, wear willow and plant willow in Tomb-Sweeping Day. This custom comes from commemorating meson push, and inserting willows is to summon souls for meson push mother and son; Dai Liu pushes Dai Xiao for mesons; Planting willow is to commemorate the big willow tree that was burned to death. It was quite popular to insert willows on Qingming Festival in the Tang Dynasty. According to "The Year of Yanjing", Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty held a sacrificial ceremony on the third day of March in the lunar calendar, giving princes willow rings, saying that wearing them could avoid stinging poison. According to the Book of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Zhongzong gave his ministers wicker and woven wicker rings during the Qingming Festival to avoid insect pests. By the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the habit of inserting willows was very popular. In Song Dynasty, Zhang Zerui's Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts the scene of people going out to visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tokyo at that time.

Yancheng, known as the hometown of etiquette, is a city where people stick to traditional customs. Shui Xin, the rural sage of Yancheng, published two volumes, Local Geography of Yancheng and Local History of Yancheng, in September, 28 in Shanghai Commercial Press, which talked about the "folk custom" of Qingming in Yancheng. After a hundred years, this "folk custom" is still fragrant. The book says, "Choose a day to visit the grave before Qingming Festival. Hanging red and yellow paper money is the tomb mark, which is called ancestor worship. After Qingming, women wear more flowers in front of every family. " You see, most people in Yancheng sweep graves before Qingming Festival, and yellow paper money is hung on the tombs as a tomb marker, which is also a declaration to the neighbors that we have worshipped our ancestors and we have not forgotten our roots. It's clear and windy, and on the fields, yellow paper money flutters and rustles at the graves of every family, which is a grand view. After the Qingming Festival, every family will put willows in front of the door. Most women wear flowers on their heads, and spring scenery comes to my house, attracting attention from passers-by. After a hundred years, what should Yancheng people do before and after Qingming, and the division of labor is very clear.