The traditional foods of Qingming Festival include: green dumplings, moxa dumplings, steamed buns, zitui steamed buns, cake dishes, etc.

1. Qingtuanzi The most representative food during the Qingming Festival, Qingtuanzi is also called Ai Tuan. It is a green cake made with grass juice and rice flour. After the dough is made, it is wrapped

Add bean paste, jujube paste and other fillings, put reed leaves on the bottom, put them into a basket and steam them until cooked.

The finished product is bright green, waxy and soft. It is a must-have food for people in the south of the Yangtze River to worship their ancestors during the Qingming Festival and Cold Food Festival.

2. Aibao Aibao is a delicacy in the Hakka area of ??Heyuan. It is somewhat similar to Qingtuan. It is a pastry made of glutinous rice flour and mugwort juice that Hakka people love to eat.

Because Ai Cong originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and was widely spread among Hakka people as a traditional delicacy. In the old days, it was mostly used for Qingming sacrifices, so it is also called Qingming Cake.

Fresh young mugwort leaves are crushed into a puree, mixed with glutinous rice flour and kneaded into a ball, stuffed with fillings and steamed in a pot, and then added with dry powder and kneaded into a ball. The steamed finished product has a softer, glutinous, pliable and delicious texture.

3. Sanzi are fried foods, crispy and delicate, and were called "Han Ju" in ancient times.

The custom of prohibiting fire and cold food during the Cold Food Festival is no longer popular in most parts of our country, but the dumplings related to this festival are deeply loved by the world.

There are differences between the north and the south.

The steamed buns in the north are generous and free-spirited, with wheat noodles as the main ingredient, while the steamed buns in the south are delicate and delicate, with rice noodles as the main ingredient.

4. Zitui buns in northern Shaanxi are also called old steamed buns, noodle buns, and steamed steamed buns.

The dough is fermented and made into small steamed buns shaped like swallows, insects, snakes, rabbits or the Four Treasures of the Study.

The round "Zitui Mo" is specially for men to enjoy.

Married women eat strip-shaped steamed buns, while unmarried girls eat steamed buns.

Children have noodle flowers such as swallows, snakes, rabbits, and tigers.

"Big Tiger" is reserved for boys and is their favorite.

5. During the Qingming Festival, people in Quanzhou have the custom of eating moist pancakes.

Also called runcake rolls, it is a type of spring roll and is an important food at family gatherings. Later, it was often eaten during the Qingming Festival.

Runcake is simple and convenient to make. It is made from flour and baked into a thin crust. It is commonly known as "Runcake" or "Cabicake". When eating, spread out the crust and roll it up with dishes. It is simple to prepare and tastes sweet and delicious.

Most of the fillings are made from seasonal ingredients, including carrot sticks, tofu strips, shredded egg skin, pea sticks, etc. The fried oysters are especially indispensable.