As folk-say that “Ancestors expect ChingMing and Mid-Month Festivals”, ChingMing Festival is the first ancestor worship day in a year, as well as one of important feasts in agricultural era.  During ChimgMing Feast when spring comes, fields appear prosperous, and birds back migrate, it is a high time to go fields for ancestor worship.  Eating spring rolls is a custom in ChingMing, with origin from “Cool Meal Day” to memorize Jie, JhihTuei royal to Duke Wun of Jin State in his hard times during ChunChiou Period.  Spring rolls are made by scalded skin, fills of fried cabbage, carrot, shrimp, bean sprout, and egg slices, and spreads with milled peanut and sugar, similar to Crepe Eiffel of French on appearance.

According to customs, the period within ten days before or after ChingMing is allowable for worship in past family’s tombs, that is folk-said “Ten after and before ChingMing” .  Paying respects in ancestors’ tombs is so called “Discipline in front of Tomb”, in which older family will lead his children and grandchildren to clean and weed around tombs by the order from far to near, from male to female ancestors; to press colorful paper on the tomb by stones; to set three kinds of fowls, five meals or seven vegetable meals, paper money, fruits, and cookies; and to ignite candles and incenses.      Once dedication completion, all members eat clams together and abandon shells on the tomb, symbolizing ancestor respect and memory.

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