Fortune Telling Collection - Comprehensive fortune-telling - What's so particular about boiled eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

What's so particular about boiled eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day eats boiled eggs mainly because he is full and healthy.

There is also a saying that people could not make a fire before the Cold Food Festival in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. Moreover, at that time, the material living standard was low and there was not enough food. You can only eat cold food to satisfy your hunger, while boiled eggs are easy to keep. In ancient society, when I was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people would cook a lot of eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs, paint them in various colors and throw them into the river for others to catch. The woman who caught the egg ate the egg, which means that she can get pregnant. It is a custom to boil eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day every year now. Generally, the elders cook eggs for their children and let them eat them, which means that this year is safe and healthy.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a distinctive festival, with sad tears in memory of relatives and laughter for an outing. During this period, there are many custom activities, such as sweeping graves, hiking, swinging, flying kites and playing cuju. Many places also have the custom of eating boiled eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. When I was a child, my mother would hand you a few eggs dyed red with pigment or paper, carefully hold them in her hand, show them off with friends, and then collide with each other and peel them. The happiness of childhood is so simple and clear.