2. During the Qingming Festival, the customs and habits of eating Qingming cakes in Jiangnan are also called Qingming dumplings, cotton cakes, Qingming fruits and green dumplings. Qingming cake is green as jade, waxy and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full. It is a kind of food used by Jiangnan people to worship their ancestors. It has been passed down to this day and is very important in the folk food customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day.