Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation. It is not only a solemn festival for sweeping tombs and worshiping ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, go out and enjoy the fun of spring. Douzhiyi (or the yellow longitude of the sun reaches 15°) is the Qingming solar term, and the festival time is around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar.

In this season, the vitality is strong and the yin energy declines. All things "return to the old and adopt the new", and the earth presents the image of spring and bright scenery. It is a good time for youth tours in the countryside and tomb-clearing ceremonies. The Qingming ancestor worship festival is very long. There are two versions: 10 days before and 8 days after, and 10 days before and 10 days after. These nearly 20 days are all within the Qingming ancestor worship festival.

Seasonal food:

Since the custom of cold food during the Cold Food Festival was transplanted to the Qingming Festival, some places in northern my country still retain the habit of eating cold food during the Qingming Festival. In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cold pastries, while Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, and Changdao eat eggs and cold sorghum rice. It is said that if you don’t do this, you will be hit by hail. Tai'an eats cold pancakes rolled with raw bitter herbs and is said to have bright eyes after eating them.

In many places, after completing the sacrificial ceremony, the sacrificial food is shared. When people in southern Shanxi celebrate the Qingming Festival, they are used to steaming big steamed buns with white flour, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle. Records of folk cold food customs appeared almost suddenly in the documents of the Eastern Han Dynasty, mainly in Shanxi.

Even in the Tang and Song Dynasties when the cold food custom was quite popular, its spread did not extend beyond the north. Jin Luhui's "Ye Zhong Ji" was the first to talk about special foods in cold food: "On cold food days, make sweet cheese, boil japonica rice and wheat to make cheese, pound apricots and cook them to make porridge." Until the Tang and Song Dynasties, people were still eating this food. Plant cool barley porridge.