Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, is a time for Chinese families to honor ancestors as well as a time to embrace the oncoming spring.
People in East China's Jiangsu province follow the tradition to clean the tombs and offer sacrifices to the deceased around China. Due to different cultural origins, people in different part of Jiangsu have different ways of marking the traditional festival.
Suzhou people have a tradition to hang willows on the doors and wear its small branches and leaves in their hair for the Qingming Festival. As willows sprout the first green buds in spring and easy to plant, people regard it as a symbol for new life and use it to dismiss the evil as early as in Spring and Autumn periods (770-476 BC).
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It is a tradition for people in Suzhou to wear willow branches in their hair for the Qingming Festival. [Photo/cma.gov.cn] |
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