Guide: as one of China's traditional festivals, Tomb Sweeping Day has more traditional customs and more traditional food. There are so many snacks about the Qingming Festival. Today I'm here to teach you about the traditional food of the Qingming Festival.
What are the traditional food customs of Qingming Festival
1. Youth League
Qingming Festival has the custom of eating qingtuan Zi, which can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than 2000 years ago. In fact, green dumplings are made by mashing a wild plant called 'pulp wheat straw' and extruding the juice, then mixing the juice with the water milled pure glutinous rice flour after drying, and then starting to make dumplings. Its filling is made of delicate sugar bean paste. Qingtuanzi is glutinous, soft and fragrant. It tastes sweet but not greasy. You can try the traditional food of Qingming Festival.
2. Zi Tui Mo
Zitumo, also known as Laomo, is a traditional food of Qingming Festival in Shanxi Province. A Zi Tui bun weighs about one kilogram. It is elaborately made with combs, scissors, awls, tweezers, red beans, black beans, prickly ash seeds and edible pigments. It is wrapped with eggs or red dates, and there is a top on it. There are flowers on all sides. Mianhua is a small steamed bun made of dough. It is shaped like a swallow, a worm, a snake, a rabbit or four treasures of a study. It is steamed over high heat. It is said that the Qingming Festival is to commemorate the spring and Autumn period of Jin noble jiezitui.
3. Steamed mushroom
Warm mushroom bun is a traditional snack in Taining. The raw material of warm mushroom is also called Saxifraga, which is also called Saxifraga. Every year on the eve of Qingming Festival, the fields are covered with curcuma, hairy, fresh and tender, which is a good season for picking and making warm mushroom bags. In Taining, there are some differences between the north and the south in making warm mushroom bun. The southern part is made of fresh mushroom grass, which looks like a full moon, similar to steamed buns; the northern part is made of mushroom powder, which looks like a curved moon, more like dumplings. They are usually eaten on the eve of Qingming Festival. They are fresh and don't talk about too many rules.
4. Qingming snail
Qingming snail is actually Tian snail and snail. Eating snails on Qingming Festival has a long history. Because around the Qingming Festival is actually the best time to eat snails, snails at this time of fat. In fact, the two versions of "Qingming snail, fat as goose" and "Qingming snail, top goose" have been popular among the people for a long time.
Fried screw is a very simple and delicious dish, and the method is not complicated. You can try to make this delicious dish yourself.
5. Green onion and omelet
On Qingming Festival, many people in Qingdao want to eat green onions and egg cakes, which means they are smart. This custom has continued to this day. In addition, in the old days, some people in Qingdao had to knead flour flowers, called steamed swallow, to eat chicken and eggs with white flour. It means the swallow is coming, and the real spring is coming. On the morning of Qingming Festival, 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 the teacher to show their respect.
6. Chaoshan Poncirus trifoliata
Puzhizhen is a traditional snack in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province. Every family will make puzhizhen to eat during the Qingming Festival. The origin of puzhizhen made by Chaoshan people can be traced back to the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty. The material used to make puzhizhen is the leaves of puzhishu. Puzhishu is a deciduous tree growing in Chaoshan. Pick the tender leaves of puzhizhen, mash the juice and put them into the rice noodles, and then make them The unique Pu Zhizhen. Have you eaten the delicious food of Qingming Festival?
7. Qingming rice
On the eve of the Qingming Festival, every family has to collect all kinds of herbs from the field for food to make Qingming rebellion. The commonly used herbs are wormwood, hemp leaf, jiyanteng, qingmingcai (baigongweng), shepherd's purse, wolfberry leaf, etc. Wash, remove the stems and cook the herbs, mix them in the pre soaked and filtered glutinous rice (add appropriate amount of rice), pan them into rice balls with a bowl, add brown sugar, rub them well, and steam them.
8. AI Bo
In fact, AI is one of the Qingming festivals. It's a delicious traditional snack. Hakka people will make AI to eat during the Qingming Festival. "Ai" is the general name of all kinds of glutinous rice and sticky rice cakes in Hakka dialect. AI is a kind of food made of glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour and wormwood. Because AI has wormwood, it has certain medicinal and health functions. Do you like to eat this traditional food AI?
9. Joy group
Around Chengdu, Sichuan Province, there is a group made of fried rice, which is used to wear with thread, big or small, and dyed in various colors. It is called "Huanxi group". In the old days, it was sold all the way from the north gate of Chengdu to Huanxi temple. There is a poem in Miancheng Zhuzhi CI written by the Qing Dynasty: "Huanxi nunnery" is a former Huanxi group, and in the spring suburbs, it is easy to buy food. Compared with Jin Shengli, many people are drunk in village Laoxi. '
10. Qingming shrimp
It is a custom in some places to eat shrimp on Qingming Festival. Before and after Qingming Festival, the river is delicious. As the saying goes, 'eating shrimp is better than eating meat during the Qingming Festival', so we must make a delicious shrimp to eat during the Qingming Festival. In fact, Qingming blanched shrimp is the best way to taste the pure beauty of spring, but you can also make your favorite shrimp according to your own taste.
11. Pancakes
Pancake is a traditional specialty in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province and Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Pancake is also a festival food for Qingming Festival. Every morning of Qingming Festival, people go to the mountain to worship their ancestors and go home after the sacrifice,
People have pancakes for lunch. Now many people in Southern Fujian keep such customs. The skin of the pancake is thin and flexible. It tastes soft and mellow.
12. Rice with mustard
During the Qingming Festival, most of eastern Fujian, both in urban and rural areas, had the custom of eating mustard. It is said that eating 'mustard rice' mixed with mustard and rice on February 2 every year can prevent scabies all year round. There is also the custom of cooking loach noodles for ancestors on March 3.
13. Wuren rice
When it comes to Qingming Festival food, we have to mention Wuren rice. Wuren rice is also known as Wuren rice. In fact, the production method is not complicated. Wash the picked leaves of Wuren rice, boil them in clear water, remove the leaves, then soak the glutinous rice in Wuren soup, take them out after 9 hours, and steam them in the steaming cage. When they are cooked, they can be eaten. You can also try to cook this kind of meal at home.
14. Jujube cake
Jujube cake is also called Zitui cake. In some places in the north, fermented grains are used to make noodles, which are steamed with jujubes. They are also used to making jujube cakes into the shape of flying swallow, hanging them on the door with wickers, which can be eaten cold, in memory of Jie Zitui's noble quality of not seeking fame and wealth. Cake is grain, grain and jujube, in line with the purpose of health in spring, can increase the function of the spleen to limit the excessive outward expansion of liver qi.
15. Eggs
According to the folk custom, eating an egg on Qingming Day can make you healthy all year round. The origin of eating eggs on Tomb Sweeping Day is that there was a custom of forbidding fire in some areas during the pre Qin period. For many days, it was forbidden to eat cold food by fire. Boiled eggs were the best food reserve to pass this period. On Tomb Sweeping Day, besides eating eggs, you can also play with them. There are two kinds of eggs, one is' painted eggs', the other is' carved eggs'. The colorful eggs can be eaten, while the carved eggs are just for fun.