What to eat on Hanyi Festival?
1, eat noodles at the Cold Clothes Festival
On October 1st, people will not only send cold clothes to the dead for the winter, but also carry out some traditional activities symbolizing the winter. People improve their lives, and buckwheat noodles and oat noodles are popular in mountainous areas. The custom of eating noodles on Cold Clothes Festival has a long history. It is a good choice to eat a bowl of noodles with reasonable nutrition at noon in winter. People who usually have more entertainment should eat bowls of Yangchun noodles after drinking, which not only relieves hangover, but also can nourish the stomach and strengthen the body.
2. Eat red bean rice on the Cold Clothes Festival
Later generations regarded the first day of October as a mourning day, and took red bean rice as a drink. Up to now, there is a legend in Dafeng, Jiangsu Province, to the effect that there was once a cowherd who was hacked to death by the landlord for fighting with the landlord, and the rice scattered on the ground was dyed red with blood. This day is the first day of October. Since then, the poor have to eat red bean rice to commemorate him on the first day of October, and there are nursery rhymes to prove it: in October, watch the cows run home; If you refuse to leave, the landlord will slap you with three plows and a thin knife.
3, cold clothing festival to eat reverse.
In the traditional customs of Huizhou, October Dynasty is a traditional festival, which is the birthday of cows and the traditional festival of offering sacrifices to cows in Huizhou. On this day, people in Huizhou will eat a traditional food called inverse porridge. Huizhou people believe that cows have worked hard for human beings for a year and should be comforted.
5. Eat jiaozi on the Cold Clothes Festival
There is a saying in Luoyang: October 1st, oil chirp. This means that on the first day of October, people will cook and fry food, chop meat and wrap jiaozi, and prepare food for ancestor worship. Huantai residents mostly eat fried stuffing to worship their ancestors.
Summary: There are still some differences between Hanyi Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day. When I was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, I sent greetings to the dead and burned paper money. The Cold Clothes Festival is not only for offering sacrifices, but also for burning cold clothes to help the deceased relatives to prevent the invasion of cold.