Traditional Food in Tomb-Sweeping Day (1)

1. Green dumplings

The custom of eating green jiaozi in Jiangnan area during Qingming Festival. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is exquisite sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. Jiaozi cooked it and steamed it in a cage. When they come out, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done.

(hen's) egg

According to folk custom, Tomb-Sweeping Day has good health all year round after eating an egg. Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs originated from the custom of forbidding fire in some areas in the pre-Qin period, and forbidding eating cold food for many days. Hard-boiled eggs are food reserves to survive this period.

3. Warm mushroom bag

Warm mushroom bag is a traditional snack in Taining. The scientific name of the raw material of warm mushroom is Daqu grass, also called Fuer grass, and the local people call it warm mushroom grass. Every year on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the fields are covered with moustaches, which are hairy, fresh and tender, and it is a good season to pick and make warm mushroom packages.

Step 4 push steamed bread

"Zi Tuimo", also known as Lao Momo, is similar to the helmet of ancient military commanders and weighs about 250-500 grams. Eggs or red dates are wrapped inside and have a top on them. The top is covered with flowers. Hua Mian is a dough-shaped steamed stuffed bun with the shape of swallow, worm, snake, rabbit or Four Treasures of the Study.

thin pancake made of flour

There is a saying in Xiamen called "Eating Pancakes on Qingming Festival", which means that Tomb-Sweeping Day's family will get together to make pancakes after sweeping the grave.

6. Puzi pot

When making cakes, the leaves and fruits (kernels) of the cakes are first mashed, then mashed with rice into powder, fermented and mixed with sugar, and finally steamed in a pottery model or a plum blossom model. Generally, there are two kinds of common seeds: plum blossom type and peach type, and there are also bowls of fermented peaches. The steamed seeds are grass green, and everyone smiles, which always gives people a beautiful feeling of spring. It is light green and very sweet. It is said that eating it can relieve accumulated heat and cure diseases.

7. Qingming rice

On the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family should collect all kinds of edible herbs from the wild and make Tomb-Sweeping Day Rebellion.

8.jujube cake

Jujube cake is also called "self-pushing cake". In some parts of the north, fermented grains are used to make dough, and steamed dates are served. They are also used to making jujube cakes into swallows, stringing them with wicker and hanging them on the door, and eating them cold to commemorate the noble quality of mesons in promoting fame and fortune.

9.mustard rice

During the Qingming Festival, most places in eastern Fujian, both urban and rural, have the custom of eating pickled mustard tuber. It is said that eating mustard rice mixed with rice on February 2 every year can prevent scabies all year round. There is also the custom of cooking loach noodles for ancestors on March 3.

10. Onions and omelets

Many families in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Qingdao eat green onions and egg rolls, which means cleverness. This custom has continued to this day.

1 1. Zi Shan

Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times.

12. Aban

There is an old saying in Hakka that "eating mugs around Qingming Festival will keep you from getting sick all year round". Aizan is a traditional snack of Tomb-Sweeping Day Hakkas.

Traditional food in Tomb-Sweeping Day Part II

Tomb-Sweeping Day's Traditional Cold Food: Green Rice

Also known as black rice, it is a method of cooking glutinous rice dyed with the juice of black rice tree. Its color is Qing Wu. Vegetarian rice was originally a folk food, which existed in the Tang Dynasty. In rural areas of Yixing, Liyang, Jintan, Nanjing and southern Anhui, it has become a custom for many people to cook black rice with the leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum. It is one of the foods of the Cold Food Festival.

Ingredients: 500 grams of glutinous rice and 50 grams of southern candle leaves.

Practice: Wash glutinous rice for later use; Wash Nanzhuang leaves, add 500 ml of water and cook for half an hour. Remove the leaves, take the juice and cook the glutinous rice for about 2 hours. When the beige color turns black and ripe, you can eat it immediately.

Efficacy: invigorating spleen and kidney, relieving cough and tranquilizing mind, improving eyesight and blackening hair, suitable for dietotherapy and nourishing for people with weak constitution.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's traditional cold food: cold porridge

"Cold porridge" originated from the Cold Food Festival in Zhong Er, Jin Wengong in the Spring and Autumn Period (one of the ancient festivals, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day), when the hero meson pushed himself to death. Because the Cold Food Festival is similar to Tomb-Sweeping Day, people later merged into one festival, which evolved into the custom of worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the festival, people are not allowed to move fireworks, so it is necessary to prepare cold food such as porridge to commemorate it. Cold porridge is a holiday diet handed down from the Cold Food Festival.

Ingredients: 5g of Bai Meihua and 80g of japonica rice.

Practice: Boil japonica rice into porridge, then add Bai Meihua and cook for two or three minutes. Eat a bowl for three to five days at a time.

Efficacy: Plum blossom is flat, which can soothe the liver and regulate qi and stimulate appetite. People with poor appetite have a good eating effect, while healthy people have more energy when eating.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's traditional cold food: maltose.

Fermented sugar is a kind of sugar food made from rice, barley, wheat, millet or corn by fermentation and saccharification, and it is a special food for ancient cold food festival. There is no cold food overseas, there is no cold food in spring, there is no cold food in cities, Xiao Sheng blows warm and sells cold weather, porridge and fragrant white apricot flowers ... It is not difficult to see from many cold food poems that mention cold food that there must be cold food in ancient times, but there is no cold food.

Ingredients: a little sorghum, a little rice, a little barley, a little millet and a little corn.

Practice: ferment the above ingredients.

Efficacy: sweet in taste and warm in nature. This product can tonify middle energizer, moisten lung, relieve cough and detoxify.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's traditional cold food: apricot cheese.

Also known as almond tea, it is another high-grade food of Cold Food Festival. Apricot cheese was included in the food promoted by Sun Chu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. According to Yuan Gui of Bookstore, in the first year of Zhou Dynasty after the Five Dynasties, Taizu Guo Wei was the minister of royal approval declaration, which meant that it was too troublesome to take some local products from people's homes and wasted a lot of money. Don't serve again in the future. Among the souvenirs listed, there are cold almonds produced in Huaizhou.

Ingredients: almond, osmanthus, rice, glutinous rice, sugar.

Practice: Mix rice and glutinous rice, wash them together and soak them in cold water for 2 hours; Soak almonds in warm water for15min, take them out, rub off the yellow peel, wash them, add 250g of cold water, and grind them into a thin paste together with rice and glutinous rice; Put cold water into the pot, bring it to a boil, pour the thin paste into the pot, cook for 5 minutes to form almond tea, and then scoop it into a bucket to keep warm. When eating, put almond tea in a bowl, add sugar and osmanthus juice.

Efficacy: It can prevent skin aging, prevent the formation of pigment and butterfly spots, especially selenium and zinc can promote skin activity, keep youth and delay skin aging.

Further reading: the significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day eating eggs

The "Tomb-Sweeping Day" in the 24 solar terms has the folk custom of eating eggs and touching eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, there are always several children who are willing to touch eggs. Touching an egg is to put two eggs together and pinch each other to see who can crush each other's eggs. Because you can't eat spicy food, this game has become the children's favorite.

If we want to explore the symbolic significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs against eggs, we should also include people's reverence for life and fertility.

According to experts, the custom of eating eggs in Qingming has a history of thousands of years.

Experts say that eating eggs originated from the ancient Shangsi Festival. In order to get married and have children, people cook eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs and other eggs and paint them in various colors, which are called "multicolored eggs". They came to the river, threw colorful eggs into the river, and then washed them down with water, so that people downstream could grab and eat them, and then they could get pregnant. Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day now symbolizes satiety. In some rural areas, there is also the custom of "knocking eggs" between children. If we want to explore the symbolic significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs, we should also include people's awe and belief in life and fertility. In some areas of our country, during Tomb-Sweeping Day, there were customs of eating cakes, sandwich cakes, Qingming zongzi, steamed cakes, Qingming cakes, dry porridge and other diverse foods.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating eggs, which are also very nutritious, not only containing high-quality protein, but also rich in vitamins, lecithin, sterols, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients.

To boil eggs, it is generally recommended to boil them in cold water for seven or eight minutes. Try not to eat half-cooked eggs for a long time, so as not to cause discomfort such as diarrhea. Be sure to eat them in moderation.