What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day in your hometown?

More traditional, but also superstitious, rich in diet and spiritual culture.

What are our traditional customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

1. Eat

Throughout the ages, on the eve of cold food every year, chaozhou people called for selling cold snacks in the streets and lanes, which was favored by hipsters. The tide poem "Qingming Sugar Onions" has the following words: "Peach blossoms are red, cloudy for five days, and windy for one day. I have no choice but to stay in spring and sell sugar onions in deep alleys. " And "Piao Ye Qingqing whores Qing Xiang". There are scenes describing cold food in the poem.

Chenghai County Records records that in Tomb-Sweeping Day, hipsters eat "pancakes" and "simple sweet cakes" according to the custom, which not only has the significance of commemorating the ancient custom of meson pushing cold food, but also is a unique seasonal food in Chaozhou.

Sugar onion pancake: It is more delicious and healthier than Shandong pancake.

Pancakes are divided into skin and stuffing. Skin is made by mixing refined flour with proper amount of warm water, fully stirring and kneading into dough, putting it on a frying pan (flat-bottomed iron pan) on the fire, and branding it into round cooked noodles as thin as paper. There are two kinds of fillings, salty and sweet, which are made of clinker such as eggs, meat, liver bacon, mushrooms, bean sprouts and leeks. Sugar and maltose are specially processed into "sugar onions" for sweet stuffing. When eating, roll the pancake skin into a cylinder to eat.

Park Ji-kui: Those who like matcha food can try it, or they can eliminate phlegm and damp.

Picking leaves and fruits (commonly known as Puqi), mashing, pulverizing with rice poison, and sieving to obtain fine powder. Puzishu is a deciduous tree with oval or rectangular leaves and round fruit, which is bigger than mung bean. It is sweet and nontoxic, and has the effect of resolving phlegm and regulating qi. During processing, sugar and baking powder are added to the rice flour. Add a proper amount of water, stir well, ferment fully, and then put it in a ceramic peach-shaped tree seal or plum-shaped tree seal. Put it in a steamer (pot) for steaming. The naked product sprayed with fragrance is light green, which becomes a tree with good quality, delicious taste and beautiful color.

Maiguo: Chaozhou pancake

Grinding wheat into wheat flour, fully stirring with white sugar or brown sugar, kneading into bags (called wheat buns) or sheets, respectively steaming in a steamer or frying with peanuts on an iron frame. Wheat is sweet, which can stop polydipsia, moisten throat, induce diuresis, stop sweating, nourish liver qi and heart qi.

These three kinds of snacks are mainly used in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the usual red/rat shell snacks are also made on holidays.

Step 2 sacrifice

Chaozhou is mountainous, and most people in the past were buried in the soil. There is no special cemetery, but Mr. Feng Shui was invited to see Feng Shui and choose a place to build a tomb. Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is a day for the family to go up the mountain to worship their ancestors. Chaoshan is commonly known as "hanging paper"

Bai Juyi's poem "Cold Food and Wild Hope" in Tang Dynasty said: "The wind blows paper money in the wilderness, and the ancient tombs are full of spring grass." Tomb-Sweeping Day, a poem written by Koguryo in the Southern Song Dynasty, also wrote: "There are many tombs in the north and south hills, and Tomb-Sweeping Day's sacrifice is different from that of sweeping ..." Because the prohibition of cold food and fire is closely related to the order in Tomb-Sweeping Day, hipsters have the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day going up the mountain to sweep the graves to worship their ancestors. Since ancient times, people have often called cold food and Tomb-Sweeping Day, and people who sweep graves are generally called "paper biography" (there are "spring paper" and "winter paper" in the tide customs). ) In ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day, hipsters went up mountains to sweep graves. Because cold food forbids fire, they hang paper on graves and tombstones instead of burning paper money to prevent paper money from flying all over the sky, so they are called "hanging paper".

To sweep the grave, the cemetery should be renovated, and the lettering on the tombstone (commonly known as the "makeup grave monument") should be carefully filled with silver beads and sand green (red and green paint). It is also necessary to use "mud" to press yellow and white paper. These are the remains of ancient customs.

It is worth mentioning that the ancient customs of "no fire" and "hanging paper" are more consistent with today's vigorous promotion of civilized grave sweeping and forest fire prevention.

But taking pictures is generally not allowed.

go on an outing

Because it is spring, it is also the time when spring blooms. Chaozhou people will also go for an outing in parks and mountains.

The scenery of Phoenix Mountain in Chaozhou is very beautiful.

West Lake is as blue as water.

Xiangzi Bridge in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In fact, Chaozhou also has beautiful scenery and delicious food. Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only to commemorate our ancestors, but also a day for us to work hard and enjoy our present life. Chaozhou is clear, and sometimes there are mountain fires to sweep graves. Nowadays, going out for an outing and sending a bunch of flowers has increasingly replaced the previous custom of giving paper money to chickens, ducks and geese.