It drizzles endless during the rainy season in spring,

Travelers along the road look gloomy and miserable.

When I ask a shepherd boy where I can find a tavern,

He points at a distant hamlet nestling amidst apricot blossoms.

                                               —— 清明时节

The origin of Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important holiday of sacrifice. It usually

falls on April 4 or 5.Tomb-sweeping day is the day of ancestor worship and the grave, has a history of more than

two thousand five hundred years ago.Qingming is also called Taqing Festival. Tomb-sweeping day, everyone will

go out and enjoy the spring blossoms., feel everything recovery.

How Do Chinese Celebrate the Qingming Festival?

• Spring Outing

Qingming is also called Taqing Festival. Tomb-sweeping day, everyone will go out and enjoy the spring blossoms,

feel everything recovery.

• Tomb Sweeping — the Most Important Custom of Qingming Festival

People commemorate and show respect to their ancestors by visiting their graves, and offering food, tea, wine, incense,

joss paper (representing money), etc. They sweep the tombs, removing weeds, and adding fresh soil to the graves, stick

willow branches on the tomb, and burn incense and 'paper money'.

• Putting Willow Branches on Gates

During Qingming Festival, people wear soft willow branches and place the branches on gates and front doors. People

believe that this custom will ward off wandering evil spirits during Qingming.

Foods for Qingming Festival

Qingming festival is just a solar term first name，it becomes the ancestors of the festival is concerned with the cold food

festival. Sweet Green Rice Balls are a popular Qingming food, which are made of a mixture of glutinous rice powder and

green vegetable juice, and stuffed with sweetened bean paste. Qingming cakes are called sazi or hanju . They are a crispy

fried food, made of wheat flour or glutinous rice flour, eggs, sesame, onion, salt, and other ingredients. Park seed cake is

light green, taste very sweet. It is said that eating the seed cake can also Park solution heat accumulation, in addition to disease.