Tomb-Sweeping Day is the season for swallows to move back, and Shandong and other regions have the custom of pinching "face swallows" in Qingming. "Mianyan" is a kind of food pigment mixed with wheat flour, which is shaped into a swallow shape by hand kneading, shaping, cutting and pressing wings, and finally steamed in a pot to express people's joy at the coming of spring and look forward to a bumper harvest in agricultural production in the new year.
Folk call it a pimple swallow, but it's actually a big pimple. Twist it into a long strip, with a thick head and a tail around the head and then rush out from the starting point, so that the most traditional swallow is ready. Cut little wings as a feather around the swallow face, and a light, lively and lovely swallow will be made.
Tradition in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancestors' beliefs and spring sacrificial customs of early human beings. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors.
According to archaeological excavations, a 10,000-year-old tomb was found at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is the earliest tomb in China, indicating that ancient ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs thousands of years ago. The custom of "grave-sweeping sacrifice" has a long history, and Qingming "grave-sweeping sacrifice" is the synthesis and sublimation of traditional spring customs.