Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms of traditional festivals in China, which falls on April 5th every year. The arrival of Qingming also indicates that the cold winter has passed and spring is coming quietly. Similarly, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Cold Food Festival, Walking Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day Festival, March Festival and ancestor worship Festival, which is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring.
Qingming custom-painting eggs Legend has it that the ancient Xiaogan area is a part of Yunmengze, a water town, and people make a living by fishing. Because people blow the lake breeze in the lake every day, they have headaches. One day, Shennong, who had tasted all kinds of herbs, passed Yunmengze and saw someone rolling on the lake beach because of a headache.
Shennong sympathized with them and looked for herbs everywhere to treat their headaches. But nothing works. On the third day of March, Shennong picked up some wild eggs from the mountain, dug a handful of vegetables and brought them to the boat to cook for people to satisfy their hunger. People will suddenly feel headache after eating rice and scrambled eggs.
Later, it became a custom to eat vegetables and boil eggs on the third day of March, which has continued to this day. Tomb-Sweeping Day eggs can be roughly divided into two types, one is "painting eggs", which are actually dyed with various colors on the eggshells, similar to our "red eggs" today, but with different colors; The other is "egg carving", in which paintings are carved on eggshells.