After the Spring Festival holiday, everyone must be waiting for the Qingming Festival. When the spring equinox is 15 days, it's Qingming. It's warm and blooming in spring. It's suitable for outing and enjoying spring. What's the date of the Qingming Festival this year? Is the expressway free during the Qingming Festival? Let's see the following for other information about the Qingming Festival.
1. How many days off is Qingming Festival in 2019
What day is the Qingming Festival in 2019: Friday, April 5, 2019 March 1, the year of the pig
There will be several days off on Qingming Festival in 2019: a total of three days off.
Leave arrangement of Qingming Festival in 2019: the leave of Qingming Festival is from April 5 to April 7, a total of 3 days. Among them, Qingming Festival on April 5 is a statutory holiday.
Is the Qingming Festival Expressway free
Free Admission.
Free time of Qingming Festival Expressway in 2019: 00:00 on April 5-24:00 on April 7, 2019, 3 days in total.
According to the regulations of the Ministry of transport of the people's Republic of China, four national legal holidays, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, labor day and national day, are exempt from the toll of minibus roads. The vehicles for free passage are passenger vehicles with less than 7 SEATS (including 7 seats), including motorcycles. Whether airport expressways are free is up to the local authorities. So the Qingming Festival Expressway in 2019 is free.
What traditional food does Qingming Festival have
1. Qingtuan Qingming season, Jiangnan area has the custom of eating qingtuan. Qingtuan is mashed with a wild plant called "wheatgrass" and squeezed out the juice. Then take the juice and mix it with the dried water mill pure glutinous rice flour, and then start to make the dough. The filling heart of the dumpling is made of delicate sugar bean paste. When filling, add a small piece of sugar lard. After the dough is made, they are steamed in the cage, and when they are out of the cage, the cooking oil is evenly brushed on the surface of the dough with a brush, which is a success.
2. There is an old saying in the Hakka of Aiyin, which is "eat Aiyin before and after Qingming, and don't get sick all the year round". AI Yin is a traditional snack for Hakka people in Qingming Festival. First of all, clean the fresh and tender wormwood which has been picked, put it in the pot and cook it well, then remove it, drain the water, and keep the water for wormwood. Then chop the boiled wormwood into mash. The finer the mash, the worse it will be. After the wormwood mud is chopped, use the boiled wormwood water, add the glutinous rice powder and mix into a ball. Then put the prepared sesame, eyebrow beans, peanuts and other fillings into the dough, then seal and knead them into a round, long shape and other shapes, put them into the pot and steam them for 15-20 minutes, then they will be out of the oven.
3. On the eve of Qingming Festival, every family should collect all kinds of herbs from the wild to make Qingming rebellion. The commonly used herbs are wormwood, hemp leaf, cornflower, Chinese cabbage, shepherd's purse, wolfberry leaf, etc. Wash, stem and cook with herbal medicine, mix in the glutinous rice (with appropriate amount of rice) soaked and filtered in advance, make rice balls with a dish, add in brown sugar and mix well, then make rice blocks and steam them.
4. Sanzi has the custom of eating Sanzi on Qingming Festival in North and south of China. Sanzi is a fried food. It's crispy and exquisite. It was called "cold utensil" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food in cold food festival is not popular in most areas of China, but Sanzi, which is related to this festival, is deeply loved by the world. Sanzi, which is popular in Han nationality areas, has the difference between the north and the South: Sanzi in the north is free and easy, with wheat flour as the main ingredient; Sanzi in the south is exquisite and meticulous, with rice flour as the main ingredient.
5. According to the folk custom of eggs, if you eat an egg on Qingming Festival, you will have good health all year round. The origin of eating eggs in Qingming Festival is the custom of forbidding fire in some areas of the pre-Qin period. For many days, forbidding fire and cold food, cooked eggs are the best food reserve to pass this period. In addition to eating, eggs can also be played on Qingming Day. There are two kinds of eggs, one is "drawing eggs", the other is "carving eggs". The colorful eggs painted can be eaten, while the "carved eggs" are for fun only.
6. Warm mushroom bag is a traditional snack of Taining. The raw material of warm mushroom is cursive, also known as bergamot, which is called warm mushroom by local people. On the eve of the Qingming Festival every year, the field is covered with Kojima, which is hairy and tender. It is a good time to pick and make warm mushroom bags. In Taining, there are some differences in the production of warm mushroom buns. The South slice is made of fresh warm mushroom grass, which looks like a full moon, similar to steamed buns; the North slice is made of warm mushroom powder, which looks like a curved moon, more like dumplings. Nanpian is usually eaten on the eve of the Qingming Festival. It's a picture of fresh taste, not too many rules.
7. There is a saying in Xiamen that "Qingming eat pancakes", which means that the family of Qingming Day should gather together to pack pancakes after tomb sweeping. Today, most places in Southern Fujian still keep such customs. When the old Xiamen people roll pancakes, they usually like to put some crispy sea moss, fried egg shreds in the pancake skin, or put a little spicy sauce on them. After rolling, they will taste better when they are hot. Among them, all kinds of vegetables will make the farm seedlings flourish and the six livestock thrive. Some areas also think that eating pancakes packed with celery and leek will make people work harder, live longer and have a prosperous family business.
8. Green onion and egg cake Qingming Festival, many people in Qingdao want to eat green onion and egg cake, which implies cleverness and cleverness. This custom has continued to this day. In addition, in the old Qingdao area, some people also kneaded flour flowers, called "steamed swallow", and ate white noodles chicken and eggs. It means that the swallow is coming, and the real spring is coming. In the morning of Qingming, the whole family must eat eggs and chicken with white face. They are clear-minded and do not get sick. Many students have to take eggs to show their respect to the teacher.
9. To make the seeds, the leaves and fruits (cores) of the seeds are first mashed, then milled into powder with rice, then fermented, then blended with sugar, and finally steamed with pottery model or plum blossom model. In general, there are two types of Pu Zi Zhen, plum blossom type and peach type, also called bowl fermented peach. The steamed seeds are grass green, and everyone grins, always giving a nice feeling of spring. It's light green and sweet. It's said that it can relieve accumulated heat and eliminate diseases.
10. During the Qingming Festival of mustard rice, there is a common custom of eating mustard in most parts of eastern Fujian, no matter in urban or rural areas. It is said that every February 2, eating the 'mustard rice' mixed with mustard and rice can prevent scabies all the year round. There is also a custom of cooking loach noodles to sacrifice ancestors on March 3.