In Hakka areas, there is a saying that "Tomb-Sweeping Day will not get sick all year round if he eats mugs before and after". During the Qingming period, there is much rain and heavy humidity, and Artemisia argyi can dispel dampness and strengthen the spleen and stomach. Therefore, after visiting the mountains to sweep the graves and hiking, the Hakkas will pick some fresh Artemisia argyi leaves and Artemisia ordosica (Qingming Caohe) and go back to make seasonal mugs, so the "mugs" also gather the wisdom of the Hakkas.

Huang Zan

Huangzan is a traditional Hakka snack. There are many ways to eat Huang Chai, which can be boiled, steamed, boiled, fried and fried, or sliced and dried. In summer, it is used to boil sugar or salted eggs to cool off the heat. Steamed soft slices of Huangchai, dipped in the oil juice leaked when steaming bacon, have a special flavor.

Bojiban

The dustpan hairpin is a famous Hakka snack, which belongs to a kind of hairpin. In the past, rice paste was spread evenly in a dustpan, steamed and stuffed. It exists in western Fujian, western Guangdong and southwestern Jiangxi, especially in southwestern Fujian. It looks a bit like rice rolls or Meizhou, so many people are confused, but the technology and materials are not the same.

Old mouse hairpin

Mouse hairpin is one of Hakka specialty snacks, which originated in Tai Po, Meizhou, Guangdong. Because its tip looks like a mouse. Hakka people used to call rice noodle products "hairpin", originally called "rat excrement hairpin", but later changed it to rat hairpin because of indecency.

Migaoban

Lao Zao is a common Hakka food. Every time Zaohe comes on stage, many Hakkas will grind mash to celebrate the harvest. This tough and unique flavor can be eaten with yellow sugar and a little soy sauce, sliced with pork and mushrooms, or fried with batter.

Hong Tao Ban

Peach blossom hairpin symbolizes auspiciousness, which is usually seen in Chinese New Year, wedding, relocation and other occasions. During the New Year and holidays in China, it can be an offering to gods and heirs. In Hong Tao Ban, the stuffing is usually glutinous rice or taro, and sometimes pickled vegetables are added.

Lo pet ban

The winter solstice is called "overwintering" by Hakkas. In Hakka areas, there is a saying that "the winter solstice celebrates the New Year". Eating radish hairpin adds a strong sense of ceremony to Hakka people's "winter", and they are strangers in a foreign land. Every winter solstice, almost every household in Huizhou, Heyuan and other places in Guangdong will use powder to make shredded radish.

Ren Xian Ban

Eating immortal praise is a custom of Hakkas, which was handed down by ancestors. It is said that eating immortal praise on this day will not cause prickly heat all summer. This kind of black jelly-like hairpin, which is made by mixing the juice boiled by Xiancao and sweet potato starch, is cool, much like the turtle ling ointment in the plant kingdom.

Binding hairpin

Shuchai is a local specialty snack in Fengshun County, Guangdong Province, which belongs to Hakka cuisine. It is said that after the ancestors of Fengshun Hakka moved from the north to the south, because there was no wheat or flour to make spring rolls, they used rice to grind the skin instead of spring rolls, which was unique in the north wind and southern flavor.

Bowl hairpin

Bowl hairpin (Bowl hairpin, hairpin) is a traditional snack with Hakka characteristics and belongs to Hakka cuisine. In Fengshun and other Hakka areas, it is a good gift for relatives and friends. Because of its sweet taste and low water content, even numbers such as four, six, eight, ten and twelve are usually used as auspicious numbers for giving bowls to others.

Sweet hairpin

Tianzan, also known as Dalongzan, is a rice cake in Hakka area, which means that life will be sweet and beautiful in the coming year. During the Chinese New Year, most Hakkas have the custom of "steaming candied fruit", and there is a saying that "it is not a Chinese New Year without steaming candied fruit, and there is no ceremony without steaming candied fruit". Up to now, in the Hakka area of Guangdong, guests come to visit during the Spring Festival, and families with steamed candied fruit will cut a piece of candied fruit at home as a gift to the guests.

Bamboo shoot hairpin

Bamboo shoots, a traditional Hakka snack, originated in Tai Po, Meizhou, Guangdong. The production of bamboo shoots includes two parts: bamboo shoots skin and meat stuffing.

A word and a half

Ziyizan is a famous traditional snack in Tai Po. It is said that it originated in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years. Ziyichai took glutinous rice flour as raw material, kneaded it until it was soft and tough, divided it into small balls, sprinkled with proper amount of raw flour, and pressed it into skin; The special fillings are generally sliced meat, shredded squid, dried bean curd, garlic white, mushrooms and dried shrimps.

Potato hairpin

Potato Zan, Hakka food, and gatherings of friends and relatives are essential. The method of issuing a potato card: firstly, peel a big potato (purple and white) and grind it with a tool, then add seasonings such as eggs, salt, soy sauce and chopped green onion to the ground potato and stir well. When the oil is hot, set aside a small group of big potatoes with a spoon and fry them in the pot. Pay attention to turning over and frying until the surface is golden yellow during frying.

Ren Yuan ban

"Personal character" is a traditional custom of Hakka. Whenever they get married, men and women should steam it at home as a dessert for relatives and friends, which means good luck, reunion and popularity.

Niangban

Niangzhan, also known as Hakka Niangzhan and Niangzhan, is a delicious traditional dish and belongs to Cantonese cuisine. One of the snacks in Hakka area of Guangdong during the holidays, the stuffing is free to play, the meat is vegetarian, soft and delicious, and the flavor is unique. The northern immigrants who moved south miss the taste of steamed bread and want to make steamed bread, but because there is no flour, they have to use rice flour instead, so the food "mash" is produced.

Hairpin

Fried hairpin

Caiban

Chopping board is a Hakka snack. Every year "Spring Festival" and "Winter Solstice Day" and ancestor worship need to use "food praise". The practice of "vegetable hairpin" is usually divided into two parts, one is to make "hairpin skin" and the other is to make stuffing, usually leeks. Minced pork.