In my hometown, Qingming, there are only pure grave sweeping and paper burning, and there are no other activities.
It should be the north, it is the busy season of agriculture, and there is no more free time!
However, there are still many things to pay attention to when going to sweep graves on Qingming Day.
The first is the time to go to the grave. It must be 3-5 days before Qingming. Therefore, Qingming is the peak season for us to go to the grave!
For married daughters who are going to their parents' graves, the time for entering school is hasty, especially when they are far away!
I remember when I was a child, my mother once took me to burn paper for my grandfather and pulled me out of the hot bed before dawn in the morning. I don't want to get dressed. She grabbed a quilt at random, stuffed me into the donkey cart, and shouted all the way to let the donkey run faster!
I didn't know until now that it was the third day before Qingming Festival and the last day of burning paper. Our custom there is that Qingming paper burning must be before it really rises, usually before 1 1. In fact, shortly after the sun rose when burning paper, my mother kept nagging: I am too lazy to get up on the kang for a long time. ...
Why should we pay attention to burning paper when the sun rises? It is said that after this, we will burn paper again. Later generations are lazy and life is not as good as others'!
Hey, my baby daughter always likes to stay in bed. Did she get up in the middle of the night to go to the grave? !
Another traditional and special custom is that the sacrifice of burning paper must be beans (that is, green beans that everyone can buy in Chaogao or food stores) buns. Therefore, in the era of relatively backward production technology, growing beans is a major event. If the bean harvest is not good, our ancestors will "starve to death"! This is still a trivial matter, and those who are ridiculed as "starving ancestors" are even more embarrassed and ashamed of their ancestors!
Steamed buns are about the same size as steamed buns, and the pulp generally accounts for more than half of steamed buns. )
The number of steamed buns is also very particular, and it must be sixteen. Fifteen, burn paper. I still don't understand the other one.
At that time, I was greedy, and the other fifteen had to burn paper to eat, so I kept looking for where to put that one, but I couldn't grow it anyway. I asked my mother, but she never told me. At first I thought it was my mother or elder sister!
Later, I learned that my mother threw it on the roof! So I have always hated my mother, why not give it to me and throw it on the roof! It wasn't until one year that Cha County Records learned that it was eaten by the old lady Hawkfinch (we read wa here). She threw it on the roof to thank them for eating insects, mice and other pests, which protected the good harvest of the bookmakers. I hope they will continue to eat more insects in the future!
There is also a custom that pays attention to, that is, you can't cry when you go to the grave on Qingming!
According to others, there are also some years in the county annals. The reason for speculation is that life was hard at that time and there was little food. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, there is basically nothing to eat! If you cry in front of your ancestors, you are complaining that you have no food! This is a sign that you can't live! Or let the ancestors enjoy a big meal clearly and quietly, so as to spend the days of eating less and not meeting the future! After Tomb-Sweeping Day, I will go to the grave until July 30. What a long day! )
Another way to make bean curd is to point four red dots on the top, or point a dot with your finger. In my hometown, Si and Yi are basically sacrificial figures, but the specific difference between them may never be known. This kind of steamed stuffed bun is not used to go to the grave, but to sacrifice at home, which is the real sacrifice!
Sacrifice at home is usually in the building, that is, the room facing the street. All families in this room will put a table at the main entrance, which is dedicated to sacrifice.
Putting fifteen steamed buns on the table is an art, a technology and a math!
Steamed buns should be placed layer by layer to look good, and the number of layers and each layer should be fixed! Anyway, I have studied it and I can't let it go!
However, when I was a child, every time I ordered it, the biggest temptation for me was of course when I could eat it!
The red dots on the offerings in my hometown are very particular, and only the elders can eat them, so it seems a bit precious! (However, it seems that in most cases they are cut off and sacrificed. ). Hey, I tasted it secretly. Bitter, not delicious at all! The reason is that those colors are made of flowers of plants, which smell faint and not so delicious!
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There is also a folk saying about the red dot on the offering: You think the red dot on my mother's offering is free!
Uh huh! The only thing I can guess is the old driver!