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1, during the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of spreading cakes in Longwan, Wenzhou. Wenzhou cake is the oldest kind of cake bait. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, Longwan people have the custom of laying Qingming cakes (flat cakes) to worship their ancestors. Qingming cake (flat) is also called "cotton ball cake (flat)". The name of the cake comes from the cotton ball grass growing in the Qingming period. The cotton ball cake (flat) made of it and rice flour is pure natural food.
2, cotton ball grass, also known as ephemera wine grass, is a mouse ear, pictographic also. Also called careless grass. People in Yongjiachang call rat grass "cotton ball grass" or "green grass". Maoer grass, Qingming grass, etc. Because its flowers are like "little cotton balls". It has been passed down from mouth to mouth for a long time, so it is called cotton ball grass.
3. The function of cotton ball grass is not only to make the Qingming cake (flat) look better. In the past, there was a shortage of food, and cotton ball grass was added to increase the weight of food. Secondly, Maocaocao also has the functions of regulating qi, benefiting middle energizer, relieving diarrhea and resolving phlegm, inhibiting seasonal qi, clearing heat and relieving cough. Therefore, eating cotton ball cakes has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antitussive, blood pressure lowering, analgesic and capillary dilating effects.