Complex Qingming Festival handwritten newspaper pictures

The Tomb-Sweeping Festival is not the only sacrifice in the year, nor is it the most solemn and rich sacrifice, but the Tomb-Sweeping Festival is definitely the closest sacrifice to the souls of the deceased. Below are the "complex Qingming Festival handwritten newspaper pictures" I compiled for you, for reference only, I hope you like it! Please click to view more details. Complex Qingming Festival handwritten newspaper pictures

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The favorite among teas is "Qingming Tea", which refers specifically to the first crop of new tea. There is such a text in "Longshu Yuwen" of the Qing Dynasty: "From the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Mengding Tribute Tea was promoted to officials every year for more than a thousand years, and tribute was paid every year for the royal family's 'Qingming Festival' to worship heaven and ancestors."

However, the reference to "Qingming Tea" is rarely heard nowadays. I don’t know when, it has transformed into the “Mingqian tea” that everyone is seeking. In fact, "Mingqian tea" still refers to the first tea produced in the New Year, but the picking time is moved before Qingming.

After spring, the temperature is moderate, and the newly picked tea at this time is green in color and soft in texture; after winter dormancy, it is slightly rich in amino acids, vitamins and other nutrients and has a fresh taste; and spring tea generally has no There is no need to apply pesticides due to pests and diseases, and the tea leaves are not contaminated.

In addition, there is another reason why "Mingqian tea" is the most valuable.

You must know that before the Qingming Festival, the temperature is generally low, the number of germination is limited, the growth rate is slow, and the yield that can meet the picking standards is very small. "Things are rare and valuable" is indeed a true portrayal.

Is the tea picked and processed before Qingming Festival called "Mingqian tea"?

It turns out that China has a wide tea-producing area, which can be divided into Southwest Tea Area, South China Tea Area (including Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan, etc.), Jiangnan Tea Area and Jiangbei Tea Area.

The Southwest Tea Area and South China Tea Area are located in southern China, where spring comes earlier. Every Spring Festival, tea picking has already begun in these areas. By Qingming Festival, it has been more than two months since the first tea was picked. This is not the case in Jiangbei Tea Area. Although the Qingming Festival has arrived, it has not yet been actually mined.

Therefore, the only green tea that can truly be called "Mingqian tea" is the first green tea from the Jiangnan tea area. Because green tea (oolong tea) cannot be mined until the fresh leaves are semi-ripe, there is basically no such thing as "Qingming tea". The "old values" of the Qingming Festival

As time goes by, many of the "old values" of the Qingming Festival have been gradually forgotten. Now we are here to retrieve the forgotten things we have lost during the Qingming Festival. "Old style".

Dai Liu

In the past, an important part of tomb sweeping was Dai Liu. "If you don't wear willow during Qingming Festival, you will turn into a yellow dog after death." In the willow culture of the Qingming Dynasty, some people insert willows in graves, some break branches and insert them in front of doors, and some insert willow branches on sedan chairs or children's clothes, because willow trees have strong vitality. Just imagine, if the people who sweep tombs today have the habit of planting willows and planting trees every year during the Qingming Festival, there is no telling how many barren hills will be dyed green.

"Burning the baggage"

The so-called "baggage" refers to the parcel sent by filial piety from the Yang world to the "underworld". I bought the so-called "furoshiki" from Nanzhi Shop, wrote the name of the deceased person who received the money, burned incense and held candles, saluted and then burned it outside the door. Just imagine, if people today can agree with some old customs of paying homage at home according to their own circumstances and time arrangements, it may greatly alleviate the congestion on the tomb-sweeping road every year and save a lot of social resources.

Reciting poems

Drinking wine in the meandering water was once the main activity in Shangsi. The wine cup is the cup. Let the cup float down the water from the upper reaches. When it flows in front of the guests, you can take it and drink it in one gulp, and then recite poems and write poems. In history, Wang Xizhi, Xie An and others once held a famous orchid pavilion to cultivate the misfortune. The "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection" is the preface of Wang Xizhi's poems for this gathering. Just imagine, carrying out relevant cultural activities among the people, especially young people, during the Qingming Festival every year will definitely make them love the national culture even more. Characteristic Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival in the northwestern and southern Shanxi regions brings us a taste of the traditional Chinese Qingming Festival, but it also brings us unique characteristics.

1. In places such as Hequ in northwest Shanxi, it is an old custom to bring wine and food to the graves. After worshiping the ancestors, they will eat and drink in the graveyard, which means drinking and eating with the ancestors. In places such as Wenxi in southern Shanxi, people use date cakes to roll around on the grave when visiting the grave. Legend has it that it is to scratch the itch of the dead old man. In Jiexiu and other places in the middle of Jin Dynasty, when visiting graves, offerings are flour cakes shaped like coiled snakes. After returning home, put the flour cake in the yard and let it dry in the sun before eating. The old people pay attention to curable diseases, which stems from the prohibition of cold food and fire.

2. After visiting the grave in southern Shanxi, people should pull up some wheat seedlings when they return home and insert pine branches, cypress leaves or willow sticks on the door to ward off evil spirits. In northern Shanxi, wicker is often planted. In other places, some willow sticks are also inserted on the graves.

3. During the Tomb-Sweeping Day, people in southern Shanxi make steamed steamed buns stuffed with walnuts, red dates, beans, etc., which are called Zifu. It means that your descendants will be blessed, all thanks to the blessings of your ancestors. Every family also makes black bean jelly, cuts it into thin pieces and pours it into soup. Shoveling withered grass and rubbing it on the kang mat is called driving away scorpions.

4. In the southeastern part of Shanxi, everyone wears willow branches and dead leaves on their heads. Women should use gold-painted Caisheng (headgear) on their temples.

5. In the northern Shanxi region, it is customary to raw black bean sprouts and eat them with cornbread and black bean sprout stuffing. In the northwest of Shanxi, people pay attention to grinding millet flour to make cakes, which is commonly known as "tanhuang'er". In Luliang area, on the day after the Qingming Festival, people have to pick up their daughters and invite their sons-in-law, which is commonly known as "fresh fire".

6. On Qingming Festival, people are prohibited from using needles or washing clothes, and women in most areas are prohibited from walking. Before evening, a gray line should be sprinkled in front of the door. It is said that it can prevent ghosts from entering the house. The meaning of cold food

On the traditional Qingming Festival, every household will eat cold food on this day. But what is the significance of Cold Food Tour?

The origin of cold food is Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu, Shanxi Province, which has a history of 2,640 years. It has a history of more than 2,600 years since the Spring and Autumn Period (358 years earlier than the Dragon Boat Festival). Year). It has continued through various dynasties to this day without interruption. Although it was banned many times by Zhou Ju of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms, Shile of the Later Zhao Dynasty, and Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it has been banned and revived repeatedly, spreading throughout the country and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty complied with public opinion and issued an edict to incorporate the Cold Food Festival tomb sweeping into the "Kaiyuan Rites" and designated it as a national statutory holiday.

The political ambitions contained in the cold food are concerned about the country and the people, loyal to the king and patriotism, clean and honest, and the spirit of dedication of "rewarding without repaying one's merits" and retiring after one's achievements are the ethical principles of ancient Chinese society. The bond of social stability and national unity. The political clarity pursued by Jie Zitui has been the unanimous wish of the people for thousands of years and still has practical significance today.

The connotation of cold food culture with loyalty and filial piety as its core and the integrity extended from loyalty and filial piety are the essence of the Meson spirit, the core of the traditional morality of the Chinese nation, the basis of the national ancestral culture, and the maintenance of the nation and family. The moral power of unity. Today, it is an important activity method and spiritual concept to gather the hearts of the people, condense the soul of the country, and build a harmonious society.

At the same time, after more than 2,640 years of evolution, cold food is a reflection of the ideologies of multiple classes in ancient Chinese society, and is one of the important clues for contemporary research on ancient Chinese sociology.

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