1. Qingtuanzi The number one food during Qingming Festival is undoubtedly "Qingtuanzi".

In the south, during the Qingming Festival, green dumplings can be seen almost everywhere, in the streets and alleys. With delicious dumpling fillings of bean paste or sesame, they are really soft, waxy, sweet and delicious.

2. Boiled eggs: People in some places will eat a boiled egg in the morning. Local folk custom believes that eating an egg during Qingming Festival will be good for the body throughout the year.

Eating eggs during Qingming Festival has the meaning of blessing good health.

3. Mushroom buns In the Taining area, the Qingming Festival is a good time to pick fresh mushroom grass. After being picked locally, they are made into bun-shaped or dumpling-shaped warm mushroom buns.

Fresh and refreshing.

4. Inserting willows/wearing willows It is said that the custom of inserting willows is also to commemorate the farming ancestor Shennong who "taught the people how to farm".

In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to predict the weather. There is an old proverb that "willow branches are green when it rains; when willow branches are dry, the sky is sunny."

During the Huang Chao uprising, it was stipulated that "the Qingming Festival will last for a period of time, and Dai Liu will be the number."

After the failure of the uprising, the custom of wearing willows was gradually eliminated, and only inserting willows remained popular.

Willows have strong vitality. As the saying goes: "If you plant flowers intentionally, they will not bloom, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade." Willows will live when they are inserted into the soil. Wherever they are inserted, they will live wherever they are inserted. Willows will be inserted year after year, and they will become shade everywhere.

Cultural connotation "Qingming Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It is not only a festival for people to pay homage to their ancestors and remember their ancestors, but also a bond for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their roots. It is also a time for hiking, getting close to nature, and nurturing new life.

"Spring ritual." said Shi Aidong, a doctor of folklore at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Customs such as sacrifices and outings, which are important aspects of the Qingming Festival, mainly originate from the Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival.

The Cold Food Festival is related to the ancients’ understanding of nature.

In China, rebirth of new fire after cold food is a transitional ceremony to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. It reveals the information about the change of seasons and symbolizes the beginning of the new season, new hope, new life, and new cycle.

Later, it came to mean "gratitude", emphasizing nostalgia and gratitude for the "past".