Origin of Zitui steamed bun: Zitui steamed bun, also known as Lao steamed bun, is a traditional food in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people should sweep ancestral graves, weed out weeds, cultivate new soil, worship ancestors and mourn the dead. Now it is also a day to sweep the martyrs' cemetery, plant trees and carry out traditional education. The day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival. Fireworks are not allowed in the Cold Food Festival, and only cold food and cold dishes are allowed to be eaten to commemorate the aristocratic meson push of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Meson push, also known as mesopush, mesopush. He followed his son Zhong Er (later Jin Wengong) into exile.
After Wen Gong returned home, he rewarded his entourage. Jie Tui was not rewarded, but lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan (that is, Jieshan in the southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province). Later, Wen Gong wanted to give him an official title, but he refused. Wen Gong was helpless, so he had to let Yamakaji go. He wanted to force him out, but unexpectedly, he burned the mother and son to death in the mountains. Later, due to the connection between cold food and Qingming, it gradually merged into a festival, but the custom of steaming "pushing buns" before the festival has been spread in Yulin and Yan' an in northern Shaanxi.
Features of dishes:
"Zitui steamed bun", also known as old steamed bun, is similar to the helmet of ancient military commanders and weighs about 25-5g. Eggs or red dates are wrapped inside, with tops on them. The top is covered with flowers. Mianhua is a dough-molded bun with the shape of a swallow, a worm, a snake, a rabbit or Four Treasures of the Study. The round "Zi tui Mo" is for men to enjoy. Married women eat strip-shaped "shuttle buns", while unmarried girls eat "catching buns". The children have flowers such as swallows, snakes, rabbits and tigers.
"Big Tiger" is only for boys, and it is also their favorite. Parents use pear branches or fine twine to string all kinds of small flowers and hang them on the top of the cave or next to the window frame for children to enjoy slowly. Air-dried noodles can be preserved in Tomb-Sweeping Day in the following year.
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