Tomb-Sweeping Day's delicacies include green balls, prickly heat, boiled eggs, pancakes, steamed stuffed buns with warm mushrooms and so on.

1, Youth League

Youth League is the most representative food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Green and oily, waxy and soft, not sweet or greasy, with a faint but long grass fragrance, which is more fragrant and slippery when eaten in the mouth. This custom can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago. Because there is no fire during the Cold Food Festival, people will prepare many cakes in advance to satisfy their hunger.

2. 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.

3. Boiled eggs

The shape of an egg is round, symbolizing reunion and perfection, and implying perfection. On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, shepherd's purse boiled eggs, which means good health all year round.

4.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. "Pancake dish" needs at least a dozen ingredients, and most of them are seasonal vegetables.

5, warm mushroom bag

Before Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family in the countryside made warm mushroom buns to commemorate the land god and pray for a bumper harvest. Friends and relatives from far and near exchange food and taste them. This custom has been passed down to this day.