During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Jiangnan had the custom of eating green jiaozi. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is exquisite sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. Jiaozi cooked it and steamed it in a cage. When they come out, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done.

2. Ai

There is an old saying in Hakka that "Tomb-Sweeping Day will not get sick all year round if he eats Ai". Ai _ is a traditional snack of Tomb-Sweeping Day Hakkas. First, wash the fresh and tender wormwood, put it in a pot and cook it, then take it out and drain it. The water for boiling wormwood should be reserved for later use. Then chop the cooked wormwood into grass mud, and the finer the grass mud, the worse the better. After cutting the wormwood mud, mix it with boiled wormwood water and glutinous rice flour. Then, the prepared fillings such as sesame seeds, plum beans and peanuts are wrapped in dough, sealed and kneaded into a round shape and a long shape, and then steamed in a pot for 15-20 minutes, and then taken out.

3. Warm mushroom bag

Warm mushroom bag is a traditional snack in Taining. The scientific name of the raw material of warm mushroom is Daqu grass, also called Fuer grass, and the local people call it warm mushroom grass. Every year on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the fields are covered with moustaches, which are hairy, fresh and tender, and it is a good season to pick and make warm mushroom packages. In Taining, the production of warm mushroom buns is somewhat different. The southern piece is made of freshly picked warm mushroom grass, which looks like a full moon, similar to steamed stuffed bun; The northern piece is made of warm mushroom powder, which is shaped like a crescent moon and more like jiaozi. Southern films are usually eaten on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, and there are not many rules for the sake of fresh taste.

4, prickly heat (s·m \u n)

Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold 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. The prickly heat that is popular in Han areas is different from the north and the south: the prickly heat in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; The southern prickly heat is exquisitely made, mainly rice and flour.

5. eggs

According to folk custom, Tomb-Sweeping Day has good health all year round after eating an egg. Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs originated from the custom of forbidding fire in some areas in the pre-Qin period, and forbidding eating cold food for many days. Hard-boiled eggs are the best food reserves to survive this period. Tomb-Sweeping Day can eat eggs to play on this day, which can be roughly divided into two types, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted eggs can be eaten; And "carving eggs" is just for enjoyment.

Step 6 push steamed bread

"Zi Tuimo", also known as Lao Momo, is similar to the helmet of ancient military commanders and weighs about 250-500 grams. Eggs or red dates are wrapped inside and have a top on them. The top is covered with flowers. Hua Mian is a dough-shaped steamed stuffed bun with the shape of swallow, worm, snake, rabbit or Four Treasures of the Study. The round "push buns" are for men to enjoy. Married women eat long "shuttle buns" and unmarried girls eat "catch buns". Children have flowers such as swallows, snakes, rabbits and tigers. "Big Tiger" is specially for boys, and it is also their favorite.

7.pancakes

There is a saying in Xiamen called "Eating Pancakes on Qingming Festival", which means that Tomb-Sweeping Day's family will get together to make pancakes after sweeping the grave. Today, most parts of southern Fujian still retain such customs and habits. When old Xiamen people roll pancakes, they usually like to put some crispy seaweed, shredded fried eggs or a little spicy sauce in the pancake skin, which is more delicious when it is rolled. Among them, all kinds of vegetables are packed, which indicates that farmers are prosperous and six livestock are prosperous. In some areas, people also believe that eating pancakes wrapped in celery and leeks will make people work harder, live longer (leeks) and prosper their family business.

8. Onions and omelets

Many families in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Qingdao eat green onions and egg rolls, which means cleverness. This custom has continued to this day. In addition, in the old days, there were people in Qingdao who wanted to knead dough flowers, called "steamed Xiaoyan" and eat white-flour chicken and eggs. It means that the swallow has come and the real spring has come. On a clear morning, the whole family must eat eggs and white-flour chicken, so as not to get sick because of bright eyes. Many students will bring eggs to their teachers to show their admiration.

9.shop

To make seed _ _ _ _ _ _, first, the leaves and fruits (kernels) of the seed are mashed, then they are mashed into powder with rice, then fermented and mixed with sugar, and finally steamed in a pottery mold or plum blossom mold. There are generally plum blossom type and peach type, and there is also a bowl of fermented peaches. The steamed seeds are grass green, and everyone smiles, which always gives people a beautiful feeling of spring. _ The product is light green and very sweet. It is said that eating it can also relieve summer heat and cure diseases.

10, mustard rice

During the Qingming Festival, most places in eastern Fujian, both urban and rural, have the custom of eating pickled mustard tuber. It is said that eating mustard rice mixed with 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.

1 1, jujube cake

Jujube cake is also called "self-pushing cake". In some parts of the north, fermented grains are used to make dough, and steamed dates are served. They are also used to making jujube cakes into swallows, stringing them with wicker and hanging them on the door, and eating them cold to commemorate the noble quality of mesons in promoting fame and fortune. Cake is a grain, and adding dates to the grain conforms to the purpose of preserving health and sweetening in spring, which can increase the function of spleen and limit the excessive publicity of liver qi.

12, Qingming rice

On the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family should collect all kinds of edible herbs from the wild and make Tomb-Sweeping Day Rebellion. Commonly used herbs are wormwood and wormwood. Hemp leaves, Paederia, Chinese cabbage (white male), shepherd's purse, wolfberry leaves, etc. Cleaning the required medicinal materials, removing stems, cooking, mixing with pre-soaked and filtered glutinous rice (adding appropriate amount of rice), fan into rice balls with a clay pot, add brown sugar, rub evenly, and steam.

13, Zifu

Jinzhong area still retains the habit of banning fire the day before Qingming. In many places, after the sacrificial ceremony is completed, food will be sacrificed. When people in southern Shanxi crossed Tomb-Sweeping Day, they used to steam big steamed buns with white flour, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle, coiled into dragons outside, and an egg tied in the middle of the dragon's body, named "Zifu". It is necessary to steam a big "blessing" to symbolize family reunion and happiness. When going to the grave, the "Zifu" is usually dedicated to the ancestors and shared by the whole family after sweeping the grave.

14, bobo _

Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household in Fuzhou had to make spinach. Now, the "Mi's" shop on the street also sells a lot of spinach. It is made by squeezing spinach (a kind of wild vegetable grown in the south, which is edible, sweet and cool, and the juice is blue-green when mashed) into juice, infiltrating rice pulp and kneading it into skin, and kneading it into stuffing with jujube paste, red bean paste and shredded radish. The shape is relatively simple, and the turquoise of spinach gives spinach a kind of spring green.

15, Happy Group

In Chengdu, Sichuan, fried rice is a group, worn with large or small threads and dyed in various colors. It is called "Happy Group". In the old days, it was sold all the way to the "Happy Temple" outside the north gate of Chengdu. There is a poem in Miancheng Zhi Zhu Ci in the Qing Dynasty: "There are music groups in front of the' Happy Temple', and you are worried about buying food in the spring suburbs. Village drama is more beautiful than Jinsheng, and many people are drunk. "

16, Wuren (rūn) rice

In addition, regarding the Qingming diet custom, we can't help but mention the "black rice" of the She nationality, because eastern Fujian is the settlement of the She nationality. On the third day of March every year, every household of the She nationality cooks "black rice" and presents it to relatives and friends of the Han nationality. Over time, the local Han people also have the custom of eating "black rice" in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Especially in Kurong County, people sacrifice "black rice" every year, which shows that China has been a big family where all ethnic groups live in harmony since ancient times.

17, embellish cake dishes

Every time in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Quanzhou people have the custom of eating "cake-moistening dishes". It is said that this is the legacy of the ancient Cold Food Festival. Quanzhou's "cake-moistening dish" is baked with flour into thin skin, commonly known as "cake-moistening" or "cake-smearing". Spread out the skin when eating, and then roll in shredded carrots, shredded pork, fried clams, kohlrabi and other mixed dishes. It is simple to make and tastes sweet and delicious.