The traditional foods of Qingming Festival include: green dumplings, ai yi, deep-fried noodle cakes, zi tui buns and runny cake dishes.

1, Green Dumpling

The most representative food of Qingming Festival, Green Dumpling, also called Ai Dumpling, is a kind of green cake made of grass juice, so that the juice and the rice flour are integrated with each other, and the dumpling is made well, then wrapped with fillings such as bean paste and jujube paste, and then put them into a cage for steaming with a base of reed leaves. The finished product is green and oily, glutinous and soft, and it is a necessary food for people in the south of the Yangtze River to worship their ancestors during the Ching Ming and Cold Food Festivals.

2, Ai met

Ai met is the Hakka region of Heyuan cuisine, a bit similar to the green dumplings and so on, is the Hakka people very much like to eat a kind of glutinous rice flour and the juice of the mugwort made of pastries. It is a traditional food widely spread in the Hakka folklore since it originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was used in the olden days for Qingming rituals, so it is also called Qingming sweet. Fresh young mugwort leaves are crushed into mud, mixed with glutinous rice flour and kneaded into a ball, wrapped into the filling and steamed in a pot, and then added with dry flour and kneaded into a ball, the finished product of the steamed texture is more soft and pliable and delicious.

3, Deep-fried noodle cakes

The deep-fried noodle cakes are crispy and exquisite, and were called "cold utensils" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food during the cold food festival is no longer popular in most parts of China, but deep-fried noodle cakes related to this festival are loved by the world. Deep-fried noodle cakes are different from those of the north and the south. The deep-fried noodle cakes in the north are generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material, while the deep-fried noodle cakes in the south are delicate and meticulous, mostly with rice flour as the main material.

4. Zi Pui Bun

Shaanxi Zi Pui Bun is also called old bun and flour flower, also called steamed bun. With the fermentation of bad flour, flour flower is a small bun molded in the shape of swallows, insects, snakes, rabbits, or four treasures. The round "Zi Pui Bun" is exclusively for men to enjoy. Married women eat the bar-shaped "pike bun" and unmarried girls eat the "bun bun". The children are served with Yan, Snake, Rabbit, Tiger and so on. The "big tiger" is exclusively for boys to eat, and is also the most popular among them.

5, Run cake dishes

Every Qingming, people in Quanzhou have the custom of eating Run cake dishes. It is also known as the Run Cake Roll, belonging to a kind of spring rolls, is an important diet for family gatherings, and later often eaten at the Ching Ming Festival. Run cake dish production is simple and convenient, with flour as raw material rubbing and baking into a thin crust, commonly known as "Run cake" or "rub cake", when eating spread the cake crust, and then rolled on the dishes, the production of food are simple to eat, eat sweet and delicious. The fillings are mostly seasonal ingredients, including carrot sticks, dried beans, shredded egg skins, pea strips, etc., especially oyster omelette is indispensable.