Cold Food Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is celebrated 105 days after the winter solstice in the summer calendar and one or two days before the Qingming Festival. At the beginning of the day, when the festival is held, no fire is smoked and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, stepping on the green, swing, bowing, pulling, cockfighting and so on were gradually added, and the cold food festival lasted for more than 2,000 years, and was once known as the first major festival day in China. The Cold Food Festival is the only festival among the traditional Han Festivals named after food customs.
In 636 BC, Prince Zhong'er of the Jin Dynasty ended his nineteen-year exile and returned to the Jin Dynasty as a monarch. In these nineteen years of suffering, a group of followers have been faithful, endured hardships, protected heavy ears, and made meritorious achievements. While passing through the weiguo countryside, heavy ears fainted from hunger, and the meson pushed off the flesh on his legs to save heavy ears.
The Jin Dynasty, who had become the monarch, did not forget these followers, and they were rewarded and reused. Only the meson pushed to be ashamed of accepting the reward, and he believed that following the heavy ear was completely natural and deserved, not the reason for pursuing the high-ranking official Houlu. So he took his mother into seclusion to Mianshan (mianshan in present-day Jiexiu, Shanxi). Jin Wengong took care of every opportunity and gradually forgot about this matter.
But Jie Zhang, a good friend of The Meson Tui, has not forgotten, and he feels that Jin Wengong is unfair to the Meson Push. So he wrote a letter to hang at the city gate. After Jin Wengong knew about it, he thanked the kindness of the meson and immediately personally took people to Mianshan to look for it. Due to the lush vegetation on the mountain, the entourage wanted to burn the dry grass to find the meson push. Unexpectedly, Meiko pushed her mother and was burned to death under a willow tree.
Jin Wengong was remorseful and ordered: On the fifth day of March on the day of the death of the meson, do not make a fire to cook, but eat cold food.
The ancients set the Cold Food Festival as one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, about one or two days before the Qingming Festival. Nowadays, people often equate the Cold Food Festival with the Qingming Festival, and the Cold Food Festival is the Qingming Festival.
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Most of the cold food in history has profound meanings and rich types, including cold porridge, cold food noodles, cold food pulp, green essence rice and dumplings; Cold food offerings include noodle swallows, snake pan rabbits, date cakes, etc.; There are dozens of kinds of drinks such as spring wine and new tea. However, among the cold food customs in various places, the old Beijing cold food customs, which are known as the "thirteen best of cold food", are the most representative.
Ginger shredded shredded fork
Also known as ginger sauce fork, ginger crispy fork, honey chop fork. From its name, it can be known that there is fresh ginger in its raw materials, which is named after the obvious fresh ginger flavor when eaten. It is not only a traditional Snack in Beijing, but also a variety of Beijing tea dishes. Tea dishes are Manchu and Hui ceremonial foods.
Horseshoe baked cake
It was first transmitted to Beijing from Jinan, Shandong, and has a history of more than two hundred years, two thin skins, empty inside, shaped like a horse's hoof, also named after it, but now it is no longer sold.
Snail turn
A kind of pasta, the outer skin is a very thin dough, crispy when touched. Because of its resemblance and name, the old snack bar often put the day's unsold snail turn, with a low heat to dry the water and then sell, baked dry called "dry burst", used for wine, so Beijing has a colloquial saying "dry burst is wine gaba crisp".
Aiwowo
A famous product in Beijing-style snacks, the main ingredient of sugar roll fruit is yam and jujube, accompanied by green plums, peach kernels, melon kernels and other accessories. Chinese medicine believes that yam is warm and sweet, non-toxic, into the spleen and lungs, kidney meridians, has the functions of tonifying qi, replenishing the spleen and stomach, long muscles, anti-diarrhea and strengthening the spleen, solidifying the essence, and benefiting the lungs. Jujube meat taste sweet and warm, has the function of replenishing the spleen and stomach, nourishing qi and rejuvenating, and can treat spleen and stomach weakness, insufficient qi and blood, camp guard discord, anemia palpitations, irritability and dreams and other diseases. It is a veritable medicinal food.
Hard noodles
In the past, a kind of noodle food served at night in Beijing snacks was also a common variety. It is a kind of roast-sized mixed sugar noodles, which is biting in the mouth, slightly sweet and fragrant, and the slag is broken off by hand. Changed by people's living habits, the reduction of walking the streets and alleys to sell snacks, this snack has also broken the file, and now it is "no trace".
Sugar burns
One of the early snacks that Beijingers often eat, it has a history of more than 300 years, and is best known for its sugar fire in Da Shun Zhai. Sugar fire sweet thick, soft and non-sticky, suitable for the elderly to eat.
Honey twist
A common famous product in Beijing snacks, also known as sugar ears, is named because of its shaped human-like ears after they are formed.
Focal coil
Shaped like a fried bagel, the color is dark yellow, shaped like a bracelet, caramelized and crispy, men and women love to eat. Beijingers eat burnt bread,
I often love to clip the coke circle, and I must eat the coke circle when drinking bean juice.
Pea yellow
Beijing's traditional snacks are a good product in Beijing's spring and summer seasons. According to Beijing customs, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, you should eat pea yellow. Peas are good for urination, quenching thirst, and lower and middle gas, detoxifying sores, anti-inflammatory, removing heat, lowering blood pressure, removing fat, and losing weight.
Steamed bun twist
The finest of Beijing halal snacks, the ancient name is "ring cake", "cold equipment", steamed twist flower color brown and yellow, crispy texture, sweet and delicious.
Donkey rolling
Bean noodle cake, also known as donkey rolling, is one of the ancient varieties of Beijing snacks, which originated in Manchuria. Originating from Chengde, because the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty loved to eat sticky food, "donkey rolling" soon spread to Beijing and became a flavor snack in Beijing. It is popular in Beijing.
Tahini baked cake
There are many methods, according to the principle of making flapjacks can also be improved a lot of methods, salty, sweet can also be freely transformed, you can also use dough, pan to do ~ but this kind of puff pastry noodles or use the oven effect will be better
In addition to Beijing's thirteen must-haves, it is also a special cold food festival food from all over the world
Green dumplings
Oily green as jade, sticky and soft, sweet but not greasy to eat, fat but not oily, is the Jiangnan generation used to sacrifice ancestors of the essential food
Black rice
During the Qing Dynasty, every household in Eastern Fujian had to make black barley [rěn] rice, which was washed and boiled with the best glutinous rice and soaked in the leaves of the black barley tree, and the color was dark but the rice was fragrant
Qingming fruit
Every year in southern Zhejiang, Qingming makes a food called QingmingGuo, which is shaped like dumplings but tastes different. The skin is made of mugwort leaves, with fat intestines mixed with mustard greens, dried tofu leek filling, etc.
Run cake dish
Fujian Quanzhou, Xiamen and other places to eat the food custom of running cake dishes, baked with flour into thin slices, when eating rolled with radish shreds, shredded meat, etc., eat sweet and delicious
Snake pan rabbit
Snake pan rabbit, must be rich. It is a cold food delicacy that has been circulating in Shanxi for two thousand years, the snake represents the mother of Jiezhi push, and the rabbit is the mother of Jiezhi pushing, and the two are entangled to express the heart of filial piety
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In the Chengdu area of Sichuan, fried rice is used to make dough, strung together with thread, large or small, various colors, called Huanxi Tuan
Qingming snail
During the Qingming Dynasty, Zhejiang also had the custom of eating snails, and during the Qingming Dynasty, the snail meat was the most luscious, so there was a Qingming snail, fat as a goose
Date cake
Also known as Zi Tui Cake, the northern noodles are made, steamed with dates, and some are made into a flying swallow shape with date cakes, and hung on the door with wicker to commemorate Suke's push
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