1, Qingming porridge
Qingming porridge is one of the most common foods in Tomb-Sweeping Day, southern China. It is made of glutinous rice, red beans and lotus seeds. This kind of porridge soup is transparent in color, sweet and delicious, and is considered to be a necessary food for remembering and sacrificing ancestors.
2. Communist Youth League
Youth League is one of the traditional foods in Tomb-Sweeping Day, northern China. It is made of glutinous rice flour and bean paste, similar to jiaozi in the south. The skin of the youth league is green, and the stuffing is delicious, symbolizing the vitality and hope of spring.
3. Spring pancake
Spring pancake is a kind of pancake, similar to pancake. Spring cakes are very popular in northern China. The production method is to stir flour into paste, pour it into a pot, spread it into pancake shape, add chopped green onion, bean paste, sesame seeds and other ingredients, and fry it into shortcake. Spring cakes have a beautiful meaning of "spring breeze pride", which also means that a new year is coming, and people are welcoming new life and hope.
4, mustard tuber
In the south of China, mustard tuber is also one of the essential foods in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Mustard mustard tuber is a kind of pickle, which is made of pickled vegetables with salt. It tastes sour and spicy, and it is a kind of food sacrificed by Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Traditionally, when worshipping ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people would put mustard tuber on sacrifices to show their respect and memory for their ancestors. Modern people use mustard tuber more as snacks or condiments, but it is still one of the special foods in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
5. Xunzi
Eating prickly heat is a traditional custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Fried dumpling is a kind of fried pasta, with rice flour as the main ingredient, kneaded into thin strips and fried. Different shapes, or spiral, or grid-like, yellow and bright, crispy to eat, the more you chew, the more fragrant.
The prickly heat began at the Cold Food Festival, where fire was forbidden. At that time, many places would prepare seeds to eat when the fire was banned. The cost of sowing is relatively low, and it is easy to preserve. The taste is crisp and very popular with the people, so it has been passed down to this day.