Tomb-Sweeping Day as Written by Scholars in the Republic of China

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a sad festival to pay homage to ancestors, but it is relaxed and warm in Zhou Zuoren's eyes.

Zhou Zuoren said in Flowers and Trees on the Mountain that in the old society, women were the happiest when they went to the grave, followed by children. As soon as Qingming arrives, women and children go to the grave happily, dressed beautifully, which virtually constitutes a beautiful scenery. "Going to the grave in the boat" describes the custom of sweeping graves in Shaoxing, and describes the eating habits of sweeping graves in detail. Hometown potherb mentioned a Qingming food? Yellow wheat cake; Also mentioned Qingming wild vegetables? Shepherd's purse and Malantou; Zhou Zuoren remembered his childhood grave-sweeping in his later years and wrote this poem:? There is nothing to roast goose, and a hundred lions surround the grave. ?

Compared with Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun was cold to Tomb-Sweeping Day, except for the weather and? Vacation? Outside, in the novel Medicine, Tomb-Sweeping Day went to the grave. Qingming is particularly cold this year; The willows spit out half a grain of rice. Before dawn, Aunt Hua sat in front of a new grave on the right, unloaded four dishes and a bowl of rice, and cried. After "On Paper", Lu Xun took advantage of the coldness, desolation and gloom of Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping to write the unique sadness and haunting of the cemetery, further exposing the ignorance and unconsciousness of the people.

As brothers, their attitudes towards Tomb-Sweeping Day are totally different, which also reflects their different tastes and life pursuits!

Feng Zikai wrote in the article Qingming? Everyone's grave? The scene. The process of going to the grave is introduced in detail. Every time you go to the grave, in addition to a table for ancestor worship, there is also a small plaque with small fish, eggs, wine and incense for the landlord to eat. This is the so-called grave sacrifice site. Among the children, whoever kowtows to the graveyard first will grab the eggs first. ? What else is there? Eat grave wine at night? . From this article, we also appreciate the past, when a family lived together and went to the grave to worship their ancestors together!

For Tomb-Sweeping Day, Lao She, a literary master, found another way. He has a poem "Qingming Festival": Qingming Festival is here/peaches are everywhere/don't be busy burning paper/the most important thing is not to be busy planting trees? Burning paper? Busy? Planting trees? Reveals Lao She's life pursuit of worrying about the country and the people!

Through Tomb-Sweeping Day, a scholar, we learned about different folk customs, which made us have a different taste.