Fireworks in March, Jiangnan people eat green dough for the first time in spring, calling it "tasting spring".
The green dough made of fresh wormwood, only for spring, blooms around the Qingming Festival, and the taste of biting a grass long warbler flies overflows the mouth, soft and sweet, all happiness.
One side of the water and soil to raise one side of the people, in the south is the most common Qingtuan, the Qingming Festival must eat seasonal food, in the memory of most northerners, but never appeared.
When the difference between the north and the south diet was the greatest, I did not expect it to appear during the Qingming Festival.
Whether it is eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, or eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, or drinking tofu brain for breakfast, eating tangyuan or Lantern, the difference between the north and south diets is only sweet and salty, five kernels and egg yolks and other taste differences, and the overall lack of the food concept of Qingtuan is really uncommon.
The first time I knew about Qingtuan, it was after reading Bai Juyi's poem "Cold Food Qingtuan Shop, Spring Low Willow Branches", and only then did I have a first impression, and the first time I ate Qingtuan, it was already a year of standing, and when I traveled, I tasted it in a small shop by the West Lake in Hangzhou, soft and sticky, with the unique smell of wormwood, and the degree of recognition was extremely high carved into my taste buds that was difficult to forget.
Why don't northerners eat green dough? It is probably related to glutinous rice and wormwood.
Although good rice is produced in the north, most of the northern regions are still mainly pasta, and the pastries made with glutinous rice flour are not many, nor are they good at it, and the benefits are not widespread, so it is naturally difficult to become popular.
The biggest problem is still in the wormwood, in the north, wormwood is not a kind of food, the biggest use is to insert the Dragon Boat Festival on the door to avoid mosquitoes, or as a medicinal herb to eat, dried into wormwood used to smoke mosquitoes, smoke the parts of the body that are uncomfortable, as for food, I have not thought about it, northerners like to eat wild vegetables, from the elm money on the tree, willow buds to eat the ground of the herb, purslane, but only to exclude the wormwood, perhaps, it is that it tastes too strong.
What do northerners eat on Qingming Festival? I asked my mother the other day, moaned for a while, and answered: "Why don't you eat dumplings?"
In the northern festival food - universal dumplings are indeed worthy of the name, the New Year sacrifice ancestors with dumplings, Qingming Festival also eat dumplings, no problem.
In fact, northerners also have special foods during the Qingming Festival, but the scope of circulation is not too wide, and it is also relatively messy.
Some places in the north still retain the habit of eating cold food during the Qingming Festival, after all, the Qingming Festival is the evolution of the Cold Food Festival.
Some places in Shandong have the custom of eating cold dumplings, cold sorghum rice, and boiled eggs.
During the Qingming Festival in the jinnan area of Shanxi, there is a custom of steaming steamed buns with walnuts and jujubes.
The Qingming Festival near Henan will eat some sprinkles, sugar and oil cakes and other customs.
——Lao Jing said——
In short, on the day of the Qingming Festival, there is actually no unified festival food in the north, and folk activities such as worship are not as rich as in the south, but the rapid development of the Internet age, the integration of culture and food in the north and south is also accelerating, and the Youth League is also well known to more and more northerners, perhaps the ancient custom of eating the Green Tuan on the Qingming Festival will eventually be accepted by everyone.
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