You can take a shower and wash your hair during Qingming Festival, but it is best not to do laundry. During the Qingming Festival, folk are forbidden to use needles or wash clothes, and women in most areas are forbidden to walk. Before evening, a gray line should be sprinkled in front of the door. It is said that it can prevent ghosts from entering the house. Therefore, in this festival, there are not only the sad and sad tears of paying respects to new graves, but also the laughter of outings. It is a unique festival. The custom of stopping needlework during the Qingming Festival has been popular in the Tang Dynasty. Zhang Ji wrote in "Wu Chu Lyrics": "In front of the court, spring birds peck at the forest, and the red stitches are not yet completed. Today, I stop my needlework and start walking down to the red cherry tree." Taiyuan Rural women in Gujiao, Loufan and other places do not wash clothes during the Qingming Festival, thinking that this is to prevent the spirits of their ancestors from drinking dirty water. Before the evening of Qingming Festival, in many places, a gray line is cast outside the door. It is believed that this can prevent ghosts from entering the house. Nowadays, many of these customs have disappeared. In our place, washing is generally not allowed on the Qingming Festival. In some places, washing is not allowed the day before, and even three days after the festival. 1. The trademarks on underwear should be cut off. 2. It is not advisable to use laundry detergent to wash underwear. 3. Pay attention to the drying method of underwear.

Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the fifth solar term in spring. It indicates the official start of the spring season, usually ranging from April 4th to 6th in the Gregorian calendar. Douzhiyi, when the sun reaches 15° of ecliptic longitude, it is Qingming. It is named because during the festival, "the air is clear and the scenery is bright, and everything appears."

Qingming Festival is both a solar term and a festival. The Qingming Festival provides important conditions for the formation of Qingming Festival customs in terms of time and weather and phenological characteristics.

Qingming is a solar term that reflects the phenological changes in nature. At this time, the sun is shining brightly, vegetation is budding, flowers are blooming, and nature presents a vibrant scene. In the southern part of China, the air is clear and the scenery is bright at this time; in the northern part of the country, snow is beginning to break, the temperature is rising, and spring is coming. By Qingming Festival, rainfall in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China has increased significantly. Except for the eastern coast, the average rainfall in April in most areas south of the Yangtze River is more than 100 mm.

The Qingming solar term is related to the phenological climate of the year, and is often used to guide farming, meaning that the sky is clear and the weather is good for spring plowing; the Qingming Festival is a day for people to visit their tombs, pay respects to their ancestors, and be cautious about the past; because the two are integrated. , giving Qingming both natural and humanistic connotations. The three periods of the Qingming Festival are when the tongs begin to bloom, the field mice turn into quails, and the rainbow begins to appear. On the Qingming day, there are usually customary activities such as fire bans, tomb sweeping, outing, Cuju, and willow planting. It is customary to eat customary foods such as wormwood cakes, green dumplings, and steamed buns.

The Tang Dynasty writer Du Mu's work "Qingming" is a well-known poem about the Qingming solar term: During the Qingming season, it rains heavily, and pedestrians on the road want to die. May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance.