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What are the unique customs of Qingming Festival in Jiangsu Province? Check the customs of Qingming

​&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203; It will be the annual qingming festival soon. Qingming Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China. There are many traditional customs inherited from Qingming Festival since ancient times. However, due to the influence of regions and different customs, the customs of Qingming Festival in various regions are also different. So what are the special customs of Qingming Festival in Jiangsu Province? This article will introduce the unique customs of Qingming Festival in various regions of Jiangsu Province. Let's have a look&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;

During the Qingming Festival, the customs of tomb sweeping, outing, inserting willows, flying kites and eating youth groups are common in all parts of Jiangsu, but in addition, the thirteen cities of Jiangsu also have their own Qingming traditions, with different emphases and differences.

Nanjing

Qingming Festival is the best season to eat snails, so it is said that "Qingming snails are worth a goose". Fried snail is a river fresh dish with Nanjing flavor. Stir fry a large plate of snails. You can eat them with your hands and toothpicks, or directly stir fry them with snails meat. For example, stir fry snails with leeks is the most fashionable dish in the Qingming Festival.

During the Qingming Festival in Nanjing, another delicious food is' clam tofu soup '. Nanjing people call the clam "Waiwai". They put ginger, onion, bacon or ham, tofu and Wai Wai into a thick soup, which tastes very delicious.

Wuxi

Every tomb sweeping day in Wuxi, several kinds of food will be missed by 'old Wuxi', such as fried Malan with garlic. The older generation said they would have a clear eye.

Xuzhou

Xuzhou proverb: 'elms are not old during the Qingming Festival in February, but they are old during the Qingming Festival in March'. Xuzhou custom is that they like to eat 'steamed elm money' during the Qingming Festival. In addition to yuqianzi, you can also pick more wild vegetables during the Qingming Festival, such as jujube seedlings, old guazui, shepherd's purse and so on. These same wild vegetables can be chopped into flour and green vegetable balls, steamed and boiled, or steamed and then cooked into vegetables.

Changzhou

On Tomb Sweeping Day, Changzhou people eat glutinous rice dumplings without stuffing for breakfast. On the Tomb Sweeping Day, take out the big dumplings, cut them into pieces, fry them in oil, and put sugar or salt according to your taste. Some people will put some willow leaves inside, which means "green".

Suzhou

Not only eat the Youth League, Suzhou people also eat special foods such as Wu cooked lotus root, snail, Yanlai bamboo shoot and so on. In addition, people in Wu also like to swing, tug of war, Cuju and other activities on Qingming Day. It's also because the weather is getting warmer and warmer. It's time to get rid of your winter clothes and move your muscles and bones wantonly.

The ancients believed that willow twigs had the function of expelling ghosts and evil spirits, but Suzhou people felt that wearing willows during the Qingming Festival was to keep their youth and have more vigorous days like spring. Kites are called kites by Suzhou people. Therefore, flying kites during the Qingming Festival is actually a broken kite during the Qingming Festival. Wu language 'kite' harmonic 'demon', broken kite also has the meaning of dispelling demons and diseases.

Nantong

Nantong custom is to make 'qingtuan' with Artemisia annua leaves. From the time of waking insects to the Qingming Festival, the young leaves and stems are collected and mashed with rice flour to make Artemisia annua balls, which can not only prevent and treat diseases, but also a delicious seasonal food.

Scented cake is also a traditional festival food in Nantong. It means that it is supplied for nearly two months from the beginning of hibernation to the beginning of summer every year. After the beginning of summer, it will not be available in the market. When eating, the local people are used to eating the scented cake vertically, so they are not afraid of the leakage of the flowing bean paste filling.

Nantong people still have the custom of eating willow cake in spring. Most of them agree that the custom will become before and after the Qingming Festival, but generally after the insects are awakened, the willow can take out the tender buds to make this unique food. This hot food is astringent in taste, but it has a fragrance. It's not something that many local people can't get used to.