1, green dumplings

Ching Ming Festival, the southern part of the country has the custom of eating green dumplings. The green dumplings are made from a wild plant called "Pulp Wheatgrass" which is pounded and squeezed to produce juice, which is then mixed and kneaded with dried, water-ground pure glutinous rice flour, and then the dumplings are made. The filling of the dumplings is made of fine sweetened bean paste, and a small piece of sweetened lard is added to the filling. When the dumplings are ready, they are steamed in a cage, and when they come out of the cage, the cooked vegetable oil is brushed evenly over the surface of the dumplings with a brush, and the work is done.

2, Ai_(bǎn)

There is an old saying among the Hakka people, "Eat Ai_around the time of the Qingming Festival, and you won't get sick all year round. Ai_ is a traditional snack for the Hakka people during the Qingming Festival. The first thing is to pick back the fresh and tender mugwort wash, put the pot to cook and then fish up, drain the water, boil the mugwort water to be reserved for spare. Then the boiled mugwort will be chopped into grass mud, grass mud chopped the finer the more rotten the better. Mugwort mud chopped, with the water of cooking mugwort, plus glutinous rice flour and mix together into a ball. Then the prepared sesame seeds, brown beans, peanuts and other fillings into the dough, and then sealed and kneaded into a round, long and other shapes, into the pot of water steaming for 15-20 minutes can be removed from the oven.

3. Warm Mushroom Buns

Warm Mushroom Buns are a traditional specialty of Taining. The raw material of warm mushrooms is scientifically known as rat grass, also called Buddha's ear grass, locally known as warm mushroom grass. Every year on the eve of the Ching Ming Festival, the fields are full of sagebrush, which is furry and tender, so it is a good time to pick it, and it is also a good season to make warm mushroom buns. In Taining, there are some differences between the northern and southern slices of warm mushroom buns. In the south, freshly picked warm mushroom grass is used to make the buns, which are shaped like a full moon; in the north, warm mushroom powder is used to make the buns, which are shaped like a curved moon and are more like dumplings. The southern slice is usually eaten on the eve of the Ching Ming Festival, which is all about fresh flavors and not too many rules.

4, deep-fried noodle cakes (sǎn)

There is a custom of eating deep-fried noodle cakes on Qingming Festival in the north and south of China. "Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried food, which is crispy and exquisite, and was called "cold food" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food on the cold food festival is no longer popular in most parts of China, but deep-fried noodle cakes related to this festival are y loved by the world. Now the deep-fried noodle cakes popular in the Han area have the difference between the north and the south: the northern deep-fried cakes are generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; the southern deep-fried cakes are delicate and detailed, with rice flour as the main material.

5, Eggs

The folk custom is to eat an egg at Qingming Festival to have a good health for the whole year. Qingming Festival to eat eggs its origin is the pre-Qin era in some areas of the custom of banning fire, multi-day ban on fire and cold food, hard-boiled eggs are the best food reserves through this period. In addition to eating eggs on Qingming Day, you can also play, roughly divided into two kinds, one is "painting eggs", the other is "carving eggs". Painted colorful eggs can be eaten; and "carved eggs" is only for fun.

6, Zi push bun

"Zi push bun", also known as the old bun, similar to the helmet of the ancient military generals, weighing about 250-500 grams. It is filled with eggs or dates and has a top. The top is surrounded by a flower. The flower is a small bun molded in the shape of a swallow, a worm, a snake, a rabbit, or the Four Treasures of the Scholar's House. The round "Zi Pui Bun" is reserved for men. 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, but also the most favorite.