It is the Qingming Festival, and it is the Qingming Festival, and all parts of the country and even in various Chinese cultural areas in the world are sweeping tombs, stepping on green, flying kites, and swinging. On the one hand, we remember the ancestors who have passed away, and on the other hand, we use the holiday to travel to the spring. So, do you know what to eat on Qingming Festival? I'm here to tell you about it.
1. Green dumplings
Qingtuanzi used to be a sacrifice for tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival in Jiangnan, with a mixture of japonica skin and a rough filling. According to legend, the green dumplings are made with the juice of the sparrow grass and the glutinous rice, which are combined together to make the glutinous rice soaked in the grass juice into a puree and become emerald. This is used to wrap in bean paste or date paste, and then use reed leaves to pad the bottom into the cage, steamed and ready. Ming Langying's "Seven Revision Drafts" once recorded: "The ancients ate cold food, picked tung poplar leaves, dyed rice blue to sacrifice, and Ziyang Qi also." Now it has become a green and white ball, and it is this righteousness. "There is also a legend related to Dayu. At that time, Dayu Zhishui passed through the house for thirteen years without people, and he used the method of channeling to make the three rivers flow into the sea, the water level of Taihu Lake dropped, and the flood was calmed, creating conditions for planting winter wheat, which was deeply loved by the people of Suzhou.
2、 Ai Ling (bǎn)
Ai Ling is a unique snack of the Qingming season in the Hakka area of Guangdong Province, belongs to Hakka cuisine, "粄" is the Hakka dialect in all kinds of glutinous rice, sticky rice pastries common name, such as radish, xianren, mugwort is one of the Qingming rice, with sticky rice flour, glutinous rice flour, wormwood, etc., because of the addition of wormwood, so it has a certain medicinal health care function.
3. Warm mushroom bun
Warm mushroom bun scientific name sage grass, also known as Fole grass, is a delicious dish made from rice and dried warm mushrooms, which belongs to Fujian cuisine. Growing in the field in early spring, warm and sweet, yellow and white flowers bloom in summer, washed and dried after picking in early spring, fragrant, phlegm and cough, and strong kidney and bone functions.
4. Sǎn
Steamed buns, also known as food buns, twisters, cold utensils, hemp seeds, is a kind of fried food, crispy and exquisite. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the "cold gear" eaten during the cold food festival when the fire was prohibited was the steamed bun. Northern steamed buns are made of wheat noodles, while southern steamed buns are mostly made of rice noodles. The steamed buns are yellow and bright in color, stacked on display, light and beautiful, dry and crispy and delicious, and melt in the mouth after soaking milk or soy milk. The more famous ones are Tengzhou steamed buns, Hengshui steamed buns, Jining steamed buns, Xuzhou steamed buns, Huai'an tea buns, Jinan buns, Langzhong buns and Xining buns.
5. Sub-push steamed bun
Zi Tui Steamed Bun, also known as Lao Steamed Bun, is a traditional food of the Qingming Festival in Shanxi Province. Similar to the helmet of an ancient warrior, it weighs about 250-500 grams. Bread with eggs or dates with a top. Veneer flowers around the top. The noodle flower is a small bun with a face shape, such as swallow, insect, snake, rabbit or four treasures of the study room. The round "sub-push bun" is for men to enjoy. Married women eat strips of "shuttle buns", while unmarried girls eat "buns". Children have swallows, snakes, rabbits, tigers and other flowers. The "Big Tiger" is specially for boys to eat, and it is also the most popular with them. Parents use pear branches or thin twine to string up various small noodle flowers and hang them on the top of the cave or hang them next to the window frame for the children to enjoy slowly. The air-dried noodles can be preserved until the Qingming Festival of the following year.
6. Pancakes
Crepes originated in Tong'an District, Xiamen City, for tong'an five treasures (bowl cake, fried dates, sealed meat, pancakes, horseshoe crisp), is Guangdong Chaozhou, Hailufeng, Fujian Fuzhou, Minnan region of the traditional features, pancakes in the past is the Qingming Festival festival food, every Qingming Festival morning on the mountain to worship the ancestors, after the ancestors return home, people will use the pancakes as lunch, material life diversification, people by the Hong Kong ancestor worship customs, equipped with "roast golden pig", "roast duck", "roast goose", "cake" and other offerings.
7、 Park seed grits (guǒ)
Pu Zi Kueh is a must-have traditional pastry for the Qingming Festival that almost everyone at home and abroad knows, and at the same time, the Qingming Festival is also a traditional food custom of the Chaoshan people, which fully demonstrates the ethnic customs and gastronomic characteristics of Chaoshan Overseas Chinese. During the Tomb Sweeping Festival, chaoshan villagers who are far away and overseas will worship pu seed kon when they return to their hometowns to visit their graves, which is a unique way for Chaoshan to remember its ancestors.
8. Mustard rice
Mustard rice is a famous local snack in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, which belongs to the Zhejiang cuisine family. The dish is tender, sweet and refreshing, with a unique flavor. Eating mustard rice on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is a widely spread custom in Wenzhou folk, and there is a saying that "eating mustard rice does not produce scabies". The "Chronicle of Ruian County" says, "Take mustard greens to cook rice, the clouds can be clear, and the righteousness of the qingjing is covered." Mustard rice is made with shredded meat, shredded shiitake mushrooms and dried shrimp.
9. Date cake
Jujube cake is one of the top ten pastries in the "Manchu Han Whole Table". Jujube cake was originally a royal pastry of the Qing Dynasty court, once known as the first pastry of the court, its taste is far-reaching, the entrance is sweet, containing vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only supplement the spleen and stomach, but also benefit qi and vitality; It also has the effect of protecting the liver, increasing muscle strength, nourishing the face and preventing aging.
10. Qingming rice
Qingming rice is a special sticky rice made of five-color rice, which is a special cuisine of the Zhuang people and is composed of five colors. Five-color rice is specially used to eat on the third day of March and Qingming Festival, just like eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, it is also a symbol of a festival. Its taste is not much different from glutinous rice, but because of its different meanings, it will certainly feel different when eaten. Of course, during the Qingming Festival, five-colored rice is made, partly for sacrifices, and some of which is used for family Qingming rice, indicating auspiciousness.
11. Green onions and quiches
During the Tomb Sweeping Festival, many families in Qingdao eat scallions and egg cakes, which means cleverness and cleverness, and this custom continues to this day. In addition, in the old days, some people in qingdao also had to pinch noodle flowers, called "steamed swallows", and eat white-noodle chickens and eggs. It means that the little swallow has come, and the real spring has arrived. On this morning, the whole family must eat eggs and white-faced chickens, and their hearts are bright and not sick, and many students must bring eggs to the teacher to show their respect.
12. Eggs
Folk customs believe that eating an egg on the Qingming Festival has a good body throughout the year. The origin of eating eggs during the Qingming Festival is that in some areas of the pre-Qin era, there was a custom of forbidding fire, and the cold food was forbidden for many days, and the boiled eggs were the best food reserves to spend this period. On this day of the Qingming Festival, in addition to eating, eggs can also be played, which is roughly divided into two types, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted colorful eggs can be eaten; The "carved egg" is only for fun.
Conclusion: In addition to the above more common Qingming Festival traditional foods in the north and south, what other rare but customary foods of the Qingming Festival do you know? Welcome to leave a message to discuss!