Eating deep-fried noodle cake at Qingming means that the bad luck will go away and the year will be smooth.

"Deep-fried noodle cake" has the meaning of "scattering", which means scattering the bad things, so deep-fried noodle cake is usually used as sacrificial offerings in Qingming Festival, and deep-fried noodle cake is better and not afraid of being bad, so it can be brought back to be eaten even after the sacrifice. The deep-fried noodle cake can be eaten after the sacrifice.

There is a custom of eating deep-fried noodle cake at Qingming Festival in the north and south of China. "Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried food, which is crispy and exquisite, and was called "cold food" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food on the cold food festival is no longer popular in most parts of China, but deep-fried noodle cakes related to this festival are y loved by the world.

The deep-fried noodle cakes now popular in the Han area have the difference between the north and the south: the northern deep-fried cakes are generous and spontaneous, with wheat flour as the main material; the southern deep-fried cakes are delicate and meticulous, with rice flour as the main material. In the minority areas, there are many varieties of deep-fried noodle cakes with different flavors, especially the deep-fried cakes of Uygur, Dongxiang and Naxi, and the deep-fried cakes of Ningxia Hui are the most famous.

For thousands of years, deep-fried noodle cakes have been popular among the common people for their inexpensive, nutritious and convenient food. In the past, deep-fried noodle cakes were sold in many small stores and stalls in the streets and alleys, and were part of the "big four" family of popular foodstuffs, including pancakes, doughnuts, common millet and soymilk.

Other cold foods eaten during the Qingming Festival:

1. Dumplings

Spring is the season when all kinds of wild vegetables are available, and the Qingming Festival is a time for clear thinking, so it's important to eat clear food as well, as it is a time for remembering one's grandparents and for having many grandchildren.

2, eggs

According to the "Zhou Li" recorded "in the middle of spring to the Wooden Duo fire ban in the country" regulations, so the people out of cooking, that is, the Qingming Festival to prohibit the fire, and hard-boiled eggs is the best food through the fire ban period, so before the Qingming Festival with wormwood, brown sugar, jujube hard-boiled eggs, so that boiled eggs color The color of the boiled eggs is bright red and full of flavor.

3, Steam the face swallow

Generally before the Qingming Festival, the old people in the family will be pinched into the shape of birds or swallows, put into the steaming pot to steam, steamed in the face of the swallow's body painted on the good-looking pattern, bright eyes, the face of the swallow on the ready, steaming the face of the swallow to meet the wonderful spring, the rest of the day are happy and good luck.

4, green dumplings

Green dumplings is the southern food, but now in the north is also beginning to popularize, green dumplings, also known as moxa leaf poi or moxa cake, as the name implies is to use moxa and pastries made of pastries, fresh moxa blanch and beat into juice, take the glutinous rice flour, add sugar, moxa juice and noodles, in order to make the green dumplings shiny crystal, to join the hot water and a good chengyin dough, and then the two kneaded and together, adding a good, clean, clean, and then the two are not the same. Knead the two together and add cooking oil.

The purpose is not sticky hands and increase the ductility of the dough, wrapped in bean paste or lotus seed paste and other fillings, gently bite, sweet, not at all greasy, the mouth wafts a light long grassy breath. Just like its name, the green dumpling symbolizes a new year of reunion and happiness.