What are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Eat five-color glutinous rice and sweep the grave.

Zhuang people like colored glutinous rice very much and regard it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest. On the third day of the third lunar month or the big day in Tomb-Sweeping Day every year, Zhuang families usually make colorful glutinous rice to worship their ancestors and entertain relatives and friends. Children's full moon, the joy of housewarming, will also cook five-color glutinous rice and distribute it to neighbors to show their respect. People hang branches of maple leaves on lintels and around houses, set up a cloth shed at the end of the village, and put colorful rice and other offerings under the cloth shed. Men, women and children sang and chased songs around the tent. The old man also put the dyed boiled eggs in a small net bag and hung them on the child's chest. Young men and women should also "touch eggs" when catching up with songs.

Zhuang families often judge whether the hostess is a really smart woman by whether the glutinous rice is bright in color and sweet in taste. Every third day of March or Tomb-Sweeping Day, every housewife gets up before dawn, puts the soaked five-color glutinous rice into a steamer and cooks it with slow fire. Guangxi people's clan concept is relatively heavy and traditional. Guangxi people regard "mountain worship" as a very important festival in a year, and preparing mountain worship supplies is as cautious as preparing new year's goods during the Spring Festival.

Today, in many places in Guangxi, especially in rural areas, many families have to carry pigs and take geese to worship mountains when they worship them. The procedure of worshipping mountains in Guangxi is not special. Usually in the morning, the family set out in a mighty way and finished the sacrifice before lunch. When you go up the mountain, you should break a willow branch and hold it in your hand, because there is a saying that "the willow is yellow in the afterlife." Afraid of this legend, people in some places simply break willow branches, put them on their heads, and then go to sweep.