1. Green dumplings

During the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in the south of the Yangtze River. Green dumplings are made by mashing a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" and squeezing out juice, then mixing this juice with dried pure glutinous rice flour, and then making dumplings. The stuffing of dumplings is made of delicate sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. After the dumplings are made, put them into a cage and steam them. When they come out of the cage, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of the dumplings with a brush, and you're done.

2. Ai Zan (bǐ n)

There is an old saying in Hakkas, which says, "Eating Ai Zan around Qingming Festival keeps you from getting sick all year round". Ai Zan is a traditional snack for Tomb-Sweeping Day Hakkas. First of all, wash the fresh and tender wormwood, put it in the pot and cook it, then take it out and drain it. The water for boiling wormwood should be reserved for later use. Then chop the cooked wormwood into grass mud, and the finer the grass mud, the worse the better. After cutting the wormwood mud, mix it with boiled wormwood water and glutinous rice flour. Then, the prepared fillings such as sesame seeds, plum beans and peanuts are wrapped in dough, sealed and kneaded into round and long shapes, put into a pot and steamed for 15-2 minutes, and then discharged.

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 Foer grass, and the locals call it warm mushroom grass. Every year, on the eve of Qingming Festival, the fields are covered with moustache, which is hairy, fresh and tender, which is a good season for picking and making warm mushroom packages. In Taining, there are some differences in the production of warm mushroom packages. The southern film is made of freshly picked warm mushroom grass, which looks like a full moon and is similar to steamed stuffed bun; The northern piece is made of warm mushroom powder, which is shaped like a crescent moon and more like dumplings. Southern films are usually eaten on the eve of Qingming Festival, for the sake of fresh taste and not too many rules.

4. Scorpion (s m ���������������򠂭򠂭򟿥6 "Zanzi" is a fried food, crispy and exquisite, and it was called "cold utensils" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world. There are differences between the south and the north in the prickly heat that is popular in the Han area: the prickly heat in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; Southern prickly heat is exquisite and meticulous, and it is mainly made of rice and flour.

5. Eggs

According to folk custom, eating an egg in Tomb-Sweeping Day will keep you healthy all year round. Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating of eggs originated from the custom of forbidding fire in some areas in the pre-Qin period, and it was forbidden to eat cold food for many days. Cooked eggs were the best food reserves to spend this period. Eggs can be eaten and played in Tomb-Sweeping Day on this day, which can be roughly divided into two types, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted colorful eggs can be eaten; And "carving eggs" is for enjoyment only.

6. Zitui steamed buns

"Zitui steamed buns", also known as old steamed buns, are similar to the helmets of ancient military commanders and weigh about 25-5 grams. Eggs or red dates are wrapped inside, with tops on them. The top is covered with flowers. Mianhua is a dough-molded bun with the shape of a swallow, a worm, a snake, a rabbit or Four Treasures of the Study. The round "Zi tui Mo" is for men to enjoy. Married women eat strip-shaped "shuttle buns", while unmarried girls eat "catching buns". The children have flowers such as swallows, snakes, rabbits and tigers. "Big Tiger" is specially for boys, and it is also their favorite.

7. Pancakes

There is a saying in Xiamen that "eat pancakes on Qingming Day", which means that Tomb-Sweeping Day's family will get together to make pancakes after sweeping the grave. Today, most places in southern Fujian still retain such customs and habits. When the old Xiamen people roll pancakes, they usually like to put some crispy seaweed, fried egg shreds or a little spicy sauce in the pancake skin, which is more delicious when they are hot after rolling. All kinds of vegetables wrapped in it indicate that farmers will flourish and livestock will thrive. In some areas, it is also believed that eating pancakes wrapped with celery and leeks will make people work harder, live longer (leeks) and prosper their family business.

8. Green onions and omelets

Many families in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Qingdao eat green onions and omelets, which means cleverness. This custom has continued to this day. In addition, in the old days, some people in Qingdao had to knead flour flowers, called "steamed Xiaoyan", and eat white flour chickens and eggs. It means that the swallow has come and the real spring has arrived. On the morning of Qingming, the whole family must eat eggs and white-flour chickens, so that they will not get sick with bright eyes. Many students will bring eggs to their teachers to show their admiration.

9. Guǒ

To make Guǒ, firstly, the leaves and fruits (kernels) of Puǒ are mashed, and then they are mashed with rice into powder, then fermented and mixed with sugar, and finally steamed with pottery model or plum 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.

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