Buffalo flower, also known as the sagebrush. In Hunan, Guangxi border area is called buffalo flower, and it will be combined with glutinous rice and sticky rice, and then wrapped with orange tree leaves to make buffalo flower patty cake, also known as powder poi, Qingming poi. Buffalo flower patties are usually made by blanching freshly picked buffalo flowers in boiling water and fishing them out. Then put the buffalo flowers into the water of glutinous rice flour, and keep kneading, until all of them are smooth and green, and then knead the smooth glutinous rice flour into a round ball, and put in the stuffing, and finally put them in a steamer and steam them, and then you can eat them. There is also no filling and with sugar or brown sugar together and into, with dumpling leaves pad pot steamed into. Green dumplings, also known as Ai Ba Ba, Ai patty cake. As a traditional snack for the Qingming Festival, it is as colorful as jasper, soft and Q-bouncy, and is a very ceremonial seasonal food during the Qingming Festival.

Sage is also called Qingming vegetable. Sagebrush in the previous "Chinese Botanical Records" recorded for the rat yeast (qu) grass, after the revision of the official name in the name of sagebrush, belonging to the Asteraceae genus of annual herbaceous plants sagebrush. Its alias is called Qingming vegetable, because before and after the Qingming its young stems and leaves can be eaten as wild vegetables and so named, alias also Tian Ai, as a rat aspergillus, autumn aspergillus and so on.