April 4 is one of the four traditional festivals in China. Qingming Festival began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2500 years. At the same time, the Qingming Festival is also a very important solar term. As soon as the Qingming Festival comes, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and spring planting. Therefore, there are 'melons and beans before and after the Qingming Festival'. So what do you eat on Tomb Sweeping Day? What are the traditional eating customs on Qingming Festival? Let's take a look at this article.
1. Qing Tuanzi
During the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in Jiangnan. Qingtuanzi is mashed with a wild plant called 'pulp wheat straw' and squeezed out the juice. Then take this juice and dry water milled pure glutinous rice powder to mix well and knead, and then start making Tuanzi. The filling center of the dumpling is made of fine sugar bean paste. When wrapping the filling, add a small piece of sugar lard. After the dough is made, put them into the cage and steam them. When they come out of the cage, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of the dough with a brush.
2. Check (b) ǎ n）
Hakka people have an old saying, it's called 'eat AI chi before and after Qingming, and don't get sick all year round'. AI Zhen is a necessary traditional snack for Hakka people on Qingming Festival. First, wash the fresh and tender wormwood picked back, boil it in the pot, remove it, drain the water, and keep the water for cooking wormwood for standby. Then chop the boiled wormwood into grass mud. The finer the grass mud is, the worse it will be. After the wormwood mud is chopped, mix it with boiled wormwood water and glutinous rice powder to form a ball. Then wrap the prepared sesame, eyebrow beans, peanuts and other fillings into the dough, seal and pinch them into circular and long shapes, put them into the pot and steam them for 15-20 minutes.
3. Warm mushroom bun
Warm mushroom bun is a traditional snack in Taining. The scientific name of the raw material of warm mushroom is Rattus, also known as Folium, which is locally known as warm mushroom grass. Every year on the eve of Qingming Festival, the fields are covered with Rhamnus, hairy and tender. It is a good season for picking and making warm mushroom bags. In Taining, there are some differences between the north and South slices of warm mushroom bun. The southern slice is made of fresh picked warm mushroom grass, which looks like a full moon and looks like a steamed stuffed bun; The in the northern part is made of warm mushroom powder, which looks like a crescent moon and more like dumplings. The food in the south is usually eaten on the eve of Qingming Festival. It's fresh taste and doesn't talk about too many rules.
4. Sanzi (s) ǎ n）
There is a custom of eating Sanzi on the Qingming Festival in North and South China. " Sanzi 'is a fried food, crispy and exquisite. It was called' cold ware 'in ancient times. The custom of banning fire and cold food on the cold food festival is no longer popular in most parts of China, but Sanzi related to this festival is deeply loved by the world. Sanzi, now popular in Han areas, has differences between the South and the North: Sanzi in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; Southern Sanzi is exquisite and meticulous, and most of them take rice noodles as the main material.
5. Mustard rice
During the Qingming Festival, most places in eastern Fujian, both urban and rural, have the custom of eating mustard. It is said that eating 'mustard rice' mixed with mustard and rice every February 2 can avoid scabies all year round. There is also the custom of cooking loach noodles to offer sacrifices to ancestors on March 3.
6. Zi Tui Mo
'Zitui steamed bun', also known as old steamed bun, is similar to the helmet of an ancient military general, weighing about 250-500g. It is wrapped with eggs or red dates, with a top on it. Applique around the top. Flour flower is a small steamed bun made of flour. It has the shape of swallow, insect, snake, rabbit or four treasures of study. The round 'Zi Tui mo' is for men to enjoy. Married women eat strip-shaped 'shuttle bun', while unmarried girls eat 'bun bun'. The children have noodles such as swallow, snake, rabbit and tiger. " Big tiger 'is only for boys and is most liked by them.
7. Pancake
Xiamen folk saying goes' Qingming eat pancakes', which means that the family should get together to wrap pancakes after sweeping the tomb on Qingming Day. Today, most places in Southern Fujian still retain such customs. When old Xiamen people roll pancakes, they generally like to put some fried seaweed, fried egg shreds, or spread a little chili sauce in the pancake skin. It's more delicious to eat when it's hot. All kinds of vegetables in the package indicate that farmers will flourish and six livestock will thrive. Some areas also believe that eating pancakes wrapped with celery and leek will make people work harder, live longer (leek) and have a more prosperous family.
8. Scallions and egg cakes
On the Qingming Festival, many families in Qingdao eat scallions and egg cakes, which means intelligence. This custom has continued to this day. In addition, in the old days, some people in Qingdao had to pinch flour flowers, called 'steamed swallow', to eat white flour chickens and eggs. The little swallow is coming, and the real spring is coming. On the morning of Qingming, the whole family must eat eggs and white faced chickens. They are clear-minded and do not get sick. Many students have to bring eggs to their teachers to show their respect.
9. Puzi (GU) ǒ）
To make Puzi rice cake, firstly mash the leaves and fruits (core) of Puzi rice, pound it with rice into powder, then ferment and mix sugar, and finally steam it with pottery model or plum blossom model. Generally, there are plum blossom type and peach type, as well as bowl fermented peach. The steamed Park seeds are grass green, and everyone grins. They always give people a beautiful feeling of spring. The product is light green and tastes very sweet. It is said that it can also relieve accumulated heat and eliminate diseases.
10. Eggs
Folk custom holds that eating an egg on the Qingming Festival will keep you in good health all year round. The origin of eating eggs on the Qingming Festival is that there was a fire prohibition custom in some areas in the pre-Qin period. Fire prohibition and cold food for many days. Boiled eggs are the best food reserve to spend this period. On Tomb Sweeping Day, eggs can be played in addition to eating. They are roughly divided into two kinds, one is' painted eggs' and the other is' carved eggs'. Painted colorful eggs can be eaten; The 'carved egg' is for pleasure only.
11. Jujube cake
Jujube cake is also called 'Zitui cake'. Some places in the North use fermented grains to make noodles and steam jujubes. They are also used to making jujube cakes into flying swallow shapes and hanging them on the door with wickers. They can eat cold food to commemorate Jie Zitui's noble quality of not seeking fame and wealth. Cakes are cereals. Cereals and jujubes are in line with the purpose of health preservation and sweet increase in spring. They can increase the function of the spleen to limit the excessive publicity of liver qi.
12. Qingming rice
On the eve of the Qingming Festival, every family should collect all kinds of grass medicine for food from the wild to make Qingming traitors. Common herbs are wormwood and? Hemp leaf, chicken cornflower, Qingming vegetable (baigongweng), shepherd's purse, medlar leaf, etc. Wash, remove the stem and cook the needed herbs, mix them in the pre soaked and dried glutinous rice (add an appropriate amount of rice), use a pestle dish to form a rice ball, add brown sugar and rub it evenly, make a rice block and steam it.
13. Qingming snail
Qingming Festival is the best season to eat snails. Because snails have not yet bred, they are the most plump and plump. Therefore, it is said that "Qingming snails are worth a goose". There are many ways to eat snails, which can be fried with onions, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar; It can also be cooked to pick out snail meat, which can be mixed, drunk, bad or fried. If you eat it properly, you can really call it 'a taste of snails, not as good as delicious wine'.