Qingming is an important festival and a day to mourn the dead. On this day, people will offer sacrifices to their ancestors and mourn the dead relatives and friends. And the clear fruit is a taste of sustenance.

Qingming fruit, also known as miss fruit and miss fruit, is a traditional holiday food. It is shaped like jujube, but smaller than jujube, sweet but not greasy, and crisp. It is said that the origin of Qingming fruit can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, when people mixed glutinous rice, sesame seeds, sweet-scented osmanthus and other ingredients to commemorate their deceased relatives and friends to make this small snack.

steps of making clear fruit

It is not difficult to make clear fruit, just prepare ingredients and tools and follow the following steps.

Step 1: Prepare ingredients

The main ingredients for making Qingming fruit include glutinous rice, sesame, sweet-scented osmanthus and sugar. Among them, glutinous rice needs to be soaked in advance to make it easier to cook. Sesame needs to be roasted to make it taste better. Osmanthus fragrans and sugar need to be mixed together as fillings for Qingming fruit.

Step 2: Boil the glutinous rice

Put the soaked glutinous rice into a pot, add a proper amount of water, boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook slowly. After cooking, put the glutinous rice into a large bowl and press it into a paste with a spoon.

Step 3: Add stuffing

Put the mixed sweet-scented osmanthus and white sugar into the glutinous rice paste and stir well. Then knead the glutinous rice paste into small balls, and the size of each ball can be adjusted freely according to personal preference.

step 4: roast sesame seeds

put the baking tray in the oven and preheat it to about 18℃. Put sesame seeds in a baking pan and bake for 3-5 minutes until the sesame seeds turn golden brown.

Step 5: Wrap the clear fruit

Put the roasted sesame seeds in a bowl and gently roll the glutinous rice balls once, so that the sesame seeds can be evenly attached to the glutinous rice balls.

the significance of clear fruit

clear fruit is not only a kind of food, but also a taste of yearning. On this special day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people will put Qingming fruit on the sacrificial table, or on the graves of their loved ones, to express their yearning for their deceased relatives.

The sweetness and crispness of Qingming fruit make people feel the beauty and preciousness of life while mourning their dead relatives and friends. It is not only a food, but also a cultural heritage and emotional sustenance.