Zitui Mo Zitui Mo, also known as Lao Momo, is a traditional delicacy during the Qingming Festival in Shanxi Province.
The day before Qingming Festival is the Cold Food Festival. No fireworks are allowed on the Cold Food Festival, and only cold food and cold dishes can be eaten to commemorate Jie Zitui, a nobleman of the Jin Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period.
Later, due to the connection between Cold Food and Tomb Sweeping Day, they gradually became one festival. However, the custom of steaming "Zitui buns" before the festival has been passed down to this day in Yulin and Yan'an in northern Shaanxi.
"Sanzi" is a fried food, crispy and delicate, and was called "Han Ju" in ancient times.
At that time, in order to commemorate Jie Zitui, a famous minister and martyr of the Jin Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period, fire was prohibited for three days during the Cold Food Festival (one or two days before Qingming Festival), so people fried some ring-shaped pasta in advance as a fast food during the Cold Food Festival.
The utensils worn during the Cold Food Festival are called "cold utensils".
There is a custom of eating steamed rice dumplings during Qingming Festival in various parts of the north and south of my country.
Zifu Han food from Shanxi, Shaanxi and other provinces.
Wrap dates, beans, walnuts, etc. in flour, put an egg on the outer layer, place snake around it, and steam it in a steamer.
It was originally used to visit the graves of ancestors during the Qingming Festival and pray for the blessing of descendants.
Artemisia seed cake In ancient China, during the Cold Food Festival, people would not light a fire to cook and only eat cold food.
Cold food is food that is prepared in advance and does not need to be heated.
Artemisia cake is a snack in southern Anhui and is named after its color.
It is made by mixing the juice of a kind of mugwort that only appeared around the Qingming Festival into the proportioned glutinous rice/sticky rice/flour, kneading it evenly by hand, and then wrapping it with different fillings according to everyone's preferences and steaming it.
Date cake is also called "Zitui cake". In some places in the north, yeast is used to make dough and steamed with dates.
They also used to make jujube cakes in the shape of flying swallows, hang them on wicker sticks on the door, and eat them cold to commemorate Jie Zitui's noble character of not seeking fame or wealth.
Cake is cereals. Cereals plus dates are in line with the purpose of maintaining health in spring and increasing sweetness. It can increase the function of the spleen and limit the excessive expansion of liver qi.
Making noodle flowers is a specialty of women in northern Shaanxi.
With their dexterous hands, they can knead the fermented white flour into various shapes of dough.
The tools are just combs, scissors, awls, tweezers and other daily necessities, and the accessories are red beans, black beans, peppercorns and food coloring.
The steamed noodles are so lifelike, like art treasures, that you can't put them down and don't want to eat them right away.
Qingming Fruit Every Qingming Festival, every household will make a food called Qingming Fruit, which is used to pay homage to the ancestors when sweeping tombs.
Qingming fruit looks a bit like a dumpling, but its taste is completely different.
The skin of the Qingming fruit is made of a plant called mugwort, a perennial herbaceous plant with small yellow flowers and small leaves shaped like those of the Compositae family, growing in clusters.
Green onions and egg pancakes During Qingming Festival, many families in Qingdao eat green onions and egg pancakes, which symbolizes intelligence. This custom continues to this day.
In addition, in the old days, some people in the Qingdao area also kneaded flour flowers, called "Steamed Xiaoyan", and ate white flour chicks and eggs.
It means that the little swallows are coming and the real spring has arrived.
On the morning of Qingming Festival, the whole family must eat eggs and white-flour chickens to keep their minds bright and clear from illness. Many students bring eggs to their teachers to show their respect.
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