How to make Tomb-Sweeping Day lanterns?

Tomb-Sweeping Day lanterns are made as follows:

1. First, prepare a rectangular colored paper.

2. Draw a center line on the colored paper with a ruler.

3. Draw some equal points on the line.

Draw a straight line along these points with a ruler.

5. Cut the paper along the drawn center line with a knife.

6. Cut out another long strip.

7. Continue to cut along the straight line of the painting, and be careful not to draw at both ends.

8. Stick the double-sided adhesive tape to both sides of the remaining colored paper.

9. Stick the two sides of two pieces of colored paper together.

10. Stick the redundant part of the bottom colored paper with double-sided tape.

1 1, and glue the two ends together.

12, the shape of the lantern comes out.

13. Put a note on the top of the lantern.

14, beautiful handmade lanterns are made!

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, which originated from ancestors' beliefs and spring worship customs.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. Grave-sweeping and ancestor-worship outing are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which have been passed down since ancient times in China.

Seasonal food

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, some areas in the south of China have the custom of eating the Youth League, which is also called Qingming Cake, Flour Cake, Cike Cake, Qingming Baba, mugwort Baba, mugwort, Qingming Fruit, Bobo Cake, Qingming Cake and mugwort Cake. In the hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian, every time we go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, we will make some cakes, cakes and rice noodles for our families to eat before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day.

According to the old custom in Shanghai, steamed cakes for sacrifice should be put on wicker and dried and stored. When they come in the long summer, they will be fried and given to the children. It is said that eating it in summer won't make you sick. In Huzhou, Zhejiang, every family in Tomb-Sweeping Day makes zongzi, which can be used as a grave-sweeping sacrifice or as dry food for hiking. As the saying goes: "Qingming Zongzi is real." Before and after Qingming, snails were fat and strong.