The more important traditional festivals in China include Shangsi Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, etc. Due to the lack of material in agricultural society, traditional festivals emphasize the culture of "eating", and the clear fruit is in Qingming (later, it gradually covers Shangsi Festival and Cold Food Festival), which is rich in diet, ritual and family participation. Folk customs in Fujian and Taiwan are an integral part of Chinese culture. For example, in Fujian and Taiwan, Tomb-Sweeping Day's sacrifice to ancestors, eating Qingming fruit and other folk customs are the main activities, which are also very popular in the ancient Central Plains.
The skin of Qingming fruit is green, and it is made of wormwood or dogwood, which is soft and hardens after being left for a long time. The stuffing is divided into salty and sweet, and the shape is "ingot-shaped" and round.
Chinese name
qingming cake
foreign name
Qingming Cake
another/alternative name
Qingming Guo, Qingming Guo, Aimiguo, Tian Aiyi
Main raw materials
Rhubarb/Artemisia argyi, japonica rice, glutinous rice
Does it contain preservatives?
no
Origin and development
As an important food custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Qingming fruit is closely related to the festival itself. Qingming fruit was originally a cold food
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Qingming fruit
The custom of Festivals was given to Tomb-Sweeping Day because of the development of Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Cold Food Festival. According to the documents, the original custom of the Cold Food Festival was only the most common wheat porridge, and then it gradually diversified. The historical records of the Youth League can be traced back to the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty only by the existing materials.
Qingming Fruit The Qingming Fruit, which is made of rat-weed and rice flour, aims to solve the problems of acclimatization and dysentery of immigrants who migrated from the north after the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the present in the coastal hot and humid climate areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Fujian.
Qingming fruit became popular in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it was also a traditional snack in Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong and other parts of the country. It was generally made and eaten around Qingming. In modern times, it is more important to adopt early adopters, and the function of ancestor worship of Qingming fruit is gradually weak, but it is more used as a seasonal snack in spring to eat, and it can also be given to friends and relatives.