Today is the day before the Qingming Festival. It is also the cold food festival. The cold food festival is a very important festival in ancient China. The cold food festival has the custom of banning fireworks and eating only cold food. Later generations have joined the customs of tomb sweeping, memorial service, outing and so on. The cold food festival has lasted for 2000 years in Chinese history. It was once the largest Memorial Day in China. So what should I eat on the cold food festival? What are the customs of cold food festival? This article will review the traditional food customs of the cold food festival. Let's have a look.
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A kind of food made before and after the Qingming Festival. The fruit looks like dumplings, but the taste is very different. The skin is made of rat Ju grass or wormwood, and the stuffing is leek, egg, dried tofu, etc.
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It is a green cake made of straw juice. It is sweet, soft and delicious, with the aroma of Wormwood Leaves. Eating qingtuan is mainly popular in the Qingming Festival, cold food festival and other festivals in the south of the Yangtze River. It is the traditional festival food of the Han nationality.
Moistening cake vegetable
Also known as run cake and tender cake dish, it is a kind of spring roll. It originated in Quanzhou and then became popular in Taiwan and Fujian. Every Qingming Festival, Quanzhou people have the custom of eating 'moistening cakes and vegetables'. It is said that this is a relic of the cold food festival in ancient times.
Qingjing rice
It is also called WuFan, WuFan and Wuren rice. It is cooked with glutinous rice dyed with the juice of WuFan tree method. The color is dark green. It is one of the foods of the cold food festival. On the third day of March every year, she people cook "Wuren rice" and give it to relatives and friends of the Han nationality. Over time, the local Han people also have the custom of eating "Wuren rice" during the Qingming Festival.
Cold porridge
During the cold food festival, people are not allowed to move fireworks. They need to prepare cold food such as wheat porridge to commemorate it. This cold food porridge is the festival diet handed down due to the cold food festival.
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That is, modern maltose, which was specially prepared for the ancient cold food festival. " There is no cold food overseas, and there is no cold food in spring ',' there is no cold food in the city far away ',' the flute blows warm and sells the sky ',' porridge fragrant and white apricot blossom sky '& hellip& hellip; It is not difficult to see from many cold food poems that mentioned the cold food festival in ancient times that there must be food for the cold food festival. Without the cold food festival, it is not called the cold food festival at all.
Snake dish rabbit
It is a kind of pastry. It is a necessary food for Qingming cold food with a history of 2500 years in Shanxi. Snake dish rabbit kneads flour into the shape of 'Snake' and 'rabbit', 'Snake' represents Jie Zitui's mother, 'rabbit' represents Jie Zitui's own, 'Snake' and 'rabbit' are intertwined to express filial piety. In addition, there is a proverb that has been handed down: 'a snake and a rabbit must be rich'.
Sanzi
A kind of fried pasta, called 'cold utensils' in ancient times, is a cold food festival food. Sanzi has existed since ancient times, but now there are differences between the South and the North: Sanzi in the north takes wheat flour as the main material, generous and free; Southern Sanzi is mainly made of rice noodles, which is exquisite and meticulous.
Qingming snail
Qingming snails are field snails and snails. Before Qingming, it is the best season to eat snails. At this time, the meat of snails is fat. There are statements of 'Qingming snails, fat like geese' and 'Qingming snails, top geese'.