Qingming Festival is also called the March Festival, the Ancestor Worship Festival, the Outing Festival, and the Qingming Festival. In addition to being called the four major traditional festivals in China with the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival is also one of the four major traditional festivals in my country. One of the twenty-four solar terms.
In addition to our country, countries such as South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. also celebrate Tomb-Sweeping Day. The main customs of Qingming Festival in my country include offering sacrifices, sweeping tombs, outing, planting willows, flying kites, swinging, tug-of-war, shooting willows, Cuju, cockfighting, silkworm flower party, etc. So what are the food customs of Qingming Festival?
What is eaten in various places during the Qingming Festival?
1. Youth League
During the Tomb-Sweeping Festival, there is a food called Youth League in the Jiangnan area. According to custom, Qingtuan is made by grinding wheat straw into juice, mixing the wheat straw juice and glutinous rice flour evenly, and then adding bean paste filling in the middle. After steaming, Qingtuan becomes Qingtuan.
2. Warm mushroom buns
Some people may think that warm mushroom buns are what they are and have never heard of them. In fact, warm mushrooms are also called rattlesnake, and everyone just calls them You’re familiar with it, but warm mushroom buns are made from sage grass and are eaten around the Qingming Festival.
3. Eggs
Today’s Qingming Festival is merged with the Cold Food Festival, so in some places it is not possible to cook food during the Qingming Festival, so many places have boiled eggs in advance , you can eat eggs directly on Qingming Festival, which is more convenient.
4. Zitui Mo
Zitui Mo is also called Lao Momo. It contains red dates or egg fillings. The way to eat Zitui Mo is more particular and different. The shapes are eaten by different people. Men generally eat round Zitui buns, married women eat shuttle-shaped Zitui buns, and unmarried women eat bun-shaped Zitui buns. Boys eat Zitui buns with big tiger noodles on them.
5. mugwort
There is a saying that "eating mugwort before and after Qingming will keep you from getting sick all year round." Therefore, mugwort is also a seasonal food during the Qingming Festival. It is a traditional snack of the Hakka people. Fresh mugwort is boiled in water and then minced into a paste. Then it is added to the glutinous rice flour. At the same time, the water in which the mugwort has just been boiled is used to stir it into a dough. Various fillings are put inside and steamed before eating.
6. Sanzi
Sanzi is a kind of fried food. As mentioned earlier, Qingming Festival and Cold Food Festival are combined, and Sanzi is eaten during the Cold Food Festival. Yes, fry the dumplings in advance and you can eat them during Qingming Festival.
7. Pancakes
In Xiamen and southern Fujian, there is a custom of eating pancakes during the Qingming Festival. When rolling the pancakes, you can choose the side dishes according to your own preferences, such as celery and leeks, which symbolize hard work and longevity.
8. White-flour chicks
In Qingdao area, there is a custom of eating eggs and white-flour chicks during Qingming Festival. You can knead the flour flowers at home, steam them and eat them, which is also known as " Steamed Xiaoyan".
9. Mustard rice
In eastern Fujian, there is a custom of eating mustard rice during the Qingming Festival, or eating mustard rice directly, which means that there will be no food in the next year. Scabies.
10. Qingming Rice
As you can tell from the name, this is a unique dietary custom of the Qingming Festival. Edible green herbs are collected before the Qingming Festival, usually including wormwood and mustard. , wolfberry leaves, hemp leaves, etc., clean and cook the herbs, mix them with glutinous rice, rice, add some brown sugar and steam them before eating.