Cold food festival, cold food is a day to eat cold food. Because you can't use fire that day, you can also eat cold food prepared in advance. There are many traditional foods on the Cold Food Festival.

1. Qingming fruit: a kind of food made around Tomb-Sweeping Day. The fruit looks like jiaozi, but its taste is quite different. The outer skin is made of dogwood or wormwood, and the stuffing is leeks, eggs and dried tofu.

2. Qing Tuan: a kind of green cake group made of grass head juice, which is sweet and fragrant, soft and delicious, with the aroma of Artemisia argyi leaves. Eating Youth League is mainly popular in festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is a traditional festival food of the Han nationality.

3. Runbing dish: also known as Runbing and Nenbing dish, it is a kind of spring rolls, which originated in Quanzhou and then became popular in Taiwan Province and Fujian. Every Qingming Festival, Quanzhou people have the custom of eating "moist cake dishes". It is said that this is the legacy of the ancient cold food festival.

4. Green rice: also known as black rice, black rice and black rice, the rice cooked with glutinous rice dyed with the juice of the black rice tree method is Qing Wu in color and is one of the foods of the Cold Food Festival. On the third day of March every year, every household of the She nationality cooks "black rice" and presents it to relatives and friends of the Han nationality. Over time, the local Han people also have the custom of eating "black rice" on Qingming Day.

5. Cold food porridge: During the Cold Food Festival, people are not allowed to use fireworks, so they need to prepare cold food such as wheat porridge to commemorate it. This cold food porridge is a holiday diet handed down from the Cold Food Festival.

6. Nao: that is, modern caramel, which is a special food for the ancient cold food festival. "There is no cold food overseas, and there is no cold food in spring", "There is no cold food in the city", "Xiao Sheng blows warm and sells cold days" and "porridge fragrant and 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, and there is no such thing.

7. Snake rabbit: a kind of pastry, which is a necessary food for Qingming cold food with a history of 2,5 years in Shanxi. The snake rabbit is kneaded into the shape of a snake and a rabbit with flour. The snake represents Jietui's mother, and the rabbit represents Jietui himself. The snake and the rabbit are intertwined to express filial piety. There is also a proverb handed down from generation to generation: "A snake dish rabbit must be rich".

8. Xunzi: a kind of fried pasta, called "cold utensils" in ancient times, is a cold food festival food. Scorpion has existed since ancient times, but now it is different between the north and the south: the northern scorpion is mainly made of wheat flour, which is generous and free; Southern prickly heat is mainly made of rice flour, which is exquisite and meticulous.

9. Qingming snail: Qingming snail means snail and snail. Before Qingming, it is the best season to eat snail. At this time, snail meat is plump, and there are sayings that "Qingming snail is as fat as a goose" and "Qingming snail is the top goose".