Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi provides important conditions for the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in terms of time and weather, and this solar term is regarded as one of the origins of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Let's take a look at the traditional food and precautions in Tomb-Sweeping Day that I have compiled for you. Welcome to read, for reference only.

Tomb-Sweeping Day traditional food

Artemisia cake

Tomb-Sweeping Day should eat green food. There is a custom of steaming Artemisia cake in rural areas. Artemisia cake is similar to the green ball in the south of the Yangtze River. Its preparation method is: "Take new Artemisia buds and glutinous rice, make Artemisia juice and rice flour blend into a whole, take meat, vegetables, bean paste and jujube paste as stuffing, put them in various fancy wooden molds, and steam them in cages with the bottom of new reed leaves." Artemisia cake is green in color and has a plant fragrance. It is one of the foods for ancestor worship in Qingming Festival, and it is also used to give gifts or entertain relatives and friends. In addition, there is a custom of eating tea eggs in Huaiyang, Qingming.

green dumplings

during the Qingming festival, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in the south of the Yangtze River. Green dumplings are made by mashing a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" and squeezing out juice, then mixing this juice with dried pure glutinous rice flour, and then making dumplings. The stuffing of dumplings is made of delicate sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. After the dumplings are made, put them into a cage and steam them. When they come out of the cage, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of the dumplings with a brush, and you're done. The green dumplings are as green as jade, sticky and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full. Green dumplings are also essential food for people in Jiangnan area to sacrifice their ancestors. Because of this, green dumplings are particularly important in folk food customs in Jiangnan area.

prickly heat

There is a custom of eating prickly heat in Tomb-Sweeping Day, north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a fried food, crispy and exquisite, and it was called "cold utensils" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world. There are differences between the south and the north in the prickly heat that is popular in the Han area: the prickly heat in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; Southern prickly heat is exquisite and meticulous, and it is mainly made of rice and flour. In ethnic minority areas, there are many kinds of prickly heat with different flavors, especially the prickly heat of * * Er, Dongxiang and Naxi nationalities and Ningxia Hui people.

Qingming snail

Qingming season is the best time to eat snails. Because snails are the most plump and plump at this time, there is a saying that "Qingming snail is worth a goose". There are many ways to eat snails, which can be fried with onions, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar. You can also cook and pick out snail meat, which can be mixed, drunk, bad, and simmered. If you eat properly, it can really be called "a snail is as interesting as a thousand things, and delicious wine is not as good as it is."

Other

In addition, during the Qingming Festival, there are customs of eating eggs, cakes, sandwich cakes, Qingming Zongzi, steamed bread, Qingming Ba, dried porridge and other nutritious foods in all parts of China.

Precautions for Qingming Walking

1. Observe the weather in advance

Pay attention to the weather changes one week in advance. When it is found that the weather is sultry and the humidity is obviously increased, this situation indicates that there may be rain in the near future, so whether to travel or not should be considered.

2. Do what you can

It's better to go out in the suburbs for a spring outing, and it's no more than two days' journey at most. Going for a long spring outing, traveling by boat and tired, is not conducive to health and reduces interest. In addition, to supplement various nutrients, you can't forget to return, causing excessive fatigue. If you have symptoms such as palpitation, fatigue, sweating, dizziness, etc., you should rest as soon as possible and avoid reluctance.

3. Wear appropriate clothes

In spring, the climate is changeable, and it is warm and cold at first, so take enough clothes to prevent catching a cold. Shoes should be light, heel-less, non-slip and highly elastic sports shoes, and the size should be appropriate, so as not to affect blood circulation, and to prevent toe crushing and numbness and discomfort of the soles. At the same time, you can prepare to wear goggles and sunglasses.

4. Pay attention to diet and health care

When you are in spring, your physical strength is greater, and you need more energy and various nutrients in your body, so the diet during the outing is the focus of health care.

5. Pay attention to the choice of places

Walking in the spring should be in fields, lakes, parks, forest areas, mountains and other places, so as to absorb more negative ions of "air vitamins" and play a role in strengthening the brain, driving away fatigue and invigorating the spirit.

6. Prevent insect and snake bites

Spring is the season when everything recovers, and it is also the season when hibernating snakes come out of their holes and all kinds of insects breed. If you are accidentally bitten by a snake, you must perform ligation near the heart in time to prevent toxic blood from flowing to the heart and the whole body. If you have ignition equipment (such as lighters or matches), quickly (within 1-2 minutes) burn the wound for 11 seconds and then rinse it with clear water to prevent the spread of venom and send it to qualified medical institutions for treatment as soon as possible. If you are accidentally bitten by an insect, don't ignore it, let alone scratch it. Instead, you should immediately apply wind oil or dermatitis-equal glucocorticoids. After being bitten by caterpillars, spiders, bees, scorpions, etc., you should apply cold compress.

7. Prevent accidents

When you go for a walk in the spring, you should try to avoid taking steep paths and don't climb mountain rocks alone. At the same time, anyone suffering from cardiovascular diseases should take the commonly used first-aid drugs with him.

8. Prevention of pollen allergy

In spring, flowers are blooming, and attention should be paid to preventing pollen allergy. Before going out, you can take anti-allergic drugs such as chlorpheniramine or Anqimin orally in advance. When you are outdoors, don't "make love" at close range, don't sleep on the grass, and don't touch flowers or leaves directly with your lips, nose and face to avoid allergic phenomena.

9. Wash your feet with hot water

When you are in spring, the muscles of your feet keep contracting, which is easy to cause local muscle aches. Washing feet with hot water can dilate capillaries, promote blood circulation of feet, and restore the secretion of sebaceous glands and heat dissipation of pores to normal.

11. Prevention of gastroenteritis

Spring is a season of bacterial growth and high incidence of gastroenteritis and other diseases. When you are away from home, it is easy to get sick from your mouth if you are not careful. Choose a restaurant with good sanitary conditions when going out to play and eat, and don't be greedy for special dishes. It is worth mentioning that even the food purchased on the same day is recommended to be carefully observed before eating to smell if there is any odor. It is suggested to bring some fresh fruits, which can not only supplement the water and nutrition needed by the body, but also not go bad easily.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's food culture

In ancient times, it was customary to eat "baked barley porridge" on Qingming Day. According to the record of Jingchu's age, cold food is "no fire for three days, and barley porridge is baked". The practice of this porridge is to grind barley into wheat pulp and cook it, then mix the mashed almonds, condense them and cut them into blocks. When you eat it, pour it with syrup. "tang" means syrup. This is the earliest recorded food in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In Qi Min Yao Shu, Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty also introduced a kind of Tomb-Sweeping Day cold food called "cold utensils", which is actually a kind of sweet cake. "Mix water with honey. If there is no honey, take jujube to cook juice. Cattle and sheep cream is also available. It is also good to use cow's and sheep's milk to make the cake crisp and beautiful. " This is also a cold food, which tastes sweet and crisp.

In the Five Dynasties, in addition to the common cold porridge cakes, the custom of making "artistic" eggs was added. Tomb-Sweeping Day's "artistic" eggs can be roughly divided into two types. One is "painting eggs", that is, the eggshell is dyed with various colors, similar to today's "red eggs", but with different colors. The other is "carving an egg", which is carved into a painting on the eggshell, which requires superb technology. This kind of egg is only for enjoyment.

Today, Tomb-Sweeping Day is called Cold Food Festival, because the food people eat at this time is mostly cold food. "Cold swallow" is the traditional pasta of the Cold Food Festival. According to legend, in order to commemorate Jietui who was burned to death, Jin Wengong ordered three days not to cook with fire, so people cooked this cold food. "Cold swallow", also known as "Zituiyan", can still be seen in the northern folk. "Dream of China in Tokyo" records: "Jujube is made of flour, willow branches are worn through it, and inserted into the lintel, which is called the son pushing the swallow." The practice of this kind of food in Shanxi and other places is to mix flour with water, knead it into the shape of a swallow, steam it in a cage, and eat it after cooling, so it is called "cold swallow", and on the Qingming day, it is put on with wicker and hung on the lintel to commemorate the meson push.

There is also a kind of pasta called Zifu in the south of Shanxi Province. It is made by inserting an egg or a walnut into a big steamed bun, kneading the dough into shapes of snakes, scorpions and centipedes, wrapping it around the egg, shaping it, and steaming it in a cage. On that day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people used "Zifu" as a grave offering to their ancestors. After the sacrifice, everyone shared the food. It is said that eating "Zifu" can bring happiness to future generations.

in Huoxian county of Shanxi province and Jiaodong area of Shandong province, there is a kind of dough plastic food called "snake dish". The dough is kneaded into a one-headed snake or a two-headed snake, steamed and cooled, and taken to the ancestors' graves as a sacrifice. When offering sacrifices, people take a "snake dish" and turn around the tomb first, and then they can eat it after offering sacrifices. Bite off the head of the snake when eating, which means "kill the head of the poison to avoid disaster"

Jujube cakes and prickly heat are also foods in northern Tomb-Sweeping Day, which used to be called "Zituibing". The practice is to ferment the flour, knead it into dough, and make it into various shapes, such as swallows, mice, snakes, or simply round cakes. They are steamed in cages and eaten cold to commemorate the meson push.

In the south, glutinous rice flour is generally used to make Tomb-Sweeping Day food. In Lin 'an, Zhejiang, people often mix tender lotus with waxy powder to make it into the shape of a dog, which is called Qingming Dog when steamed. There are several people in the family, just make a few, and everyone will eat one. As the folk saying goes, "Eat the Qingming dog, and you will be healthy all year round." It is also a good luck. In Suzhou and Shanghai, there is a custom of eating youth league. "Qing Jia Lu" says: "Green lotus seeds and cooked lotus roots are sold in the market, which are the first products to be sacrificed to the people in Qingming ... Nowadays, if you use green lotus seeds and red lotus roots, you can eat them cold, and you can still follow the legacy of banning fire." Nowadays, the youth league usually uses vegetables to extract green juice, dye the skin of green glutinous powder, and have stuffing such as bean paste inside; Or use green mugwort and powder to steam into mugwort dumplings, also called green dumplings. The youth league has been passed down to this day and its charm remains the same.

Today, people not only use it to sweep graves to worship their ancestors, but also can see this kind of food on ordinary daily festivals or weddings. Today, this kind of "Youth League" is also sold in Daoxiang Village pastry shop in Beijing every Qingming Festival. In Chengdu, Sichuan, fried rice is used as dumplings, thread is used to wear them, and color is used to dye them, which is called happy dumplings. In the past, there were many shops and stalls selling happy groups outside the north gate of Chengdu to Huanxi 'an. There is a poem in the Qing Dynasty's "Jin Cheng Zhu Zhi Ci": "I am happy in front of the happy temple, and I am worried when I buy it in the spring suburbs." The village drama is more beautiful than Jin Sheng, and many people are drunk. " This should be a vivid portrayal of the joy group.