? The Qingming cuisine that Nanjing people are most familiar with is the Youth League. The "wheat straw" in the south of the Yangtze River is born in Qingming, but it is hard to find it. It is precisely because of this that the green dumplings made of wheat straw are particularly important in the folk Qingming food customs in the south of the Yangtze River. Every Qingming Festival, the people in the south of the Yangtze River will go to the field to grab a handful of "wheat straw", go home and mash the juice, mix it well with the dried pure glutinous rice flour, wrap it with bean paste stuffing, and put a small piece of lard into the folk trick, steam it in a cage, and brush a thin layer of cooked vegetable oil on the surface when it comes out. In addition, wormwood is also a common Qingming food. After the glutinous rice is steamed, it is mixed with wormwood leaves and mashed into rice paste, and some peanuts or sesame seeds are wrapped in the middle, which is made into small green cakes and steamed in a pot. This becomes wormwood cakes.
? During the Qingming Festival in Nanjing, there is also a delicious food, namely mussel tofu soup. People in Nanjing call mussels "crooked" To choose a small, red shell, about six is enough for a family of three. Wash it repeatedly with hot water first, sprinkle some salt and mix it, and then wash it again after a while. Knock the hard edge loose with the back of the knife, so that the cooked meat will not be old. Finally, the "crooked" is cut into strips with a width of one centimeter, and the ginger, onion, bacon or ham, tofu and crooked are put into the pot with fire, and boiled into thick soup, which is extremely delicious. Some of them can also put broad bean petals, or fresh bamboo shoots, seedlings and grasses in it. The soup is delicious and the meat is fresh, and you won't forget it in March. But it is cold, so you can't eat more. People with bad stomachs should be especially careful.
? Traditional food in Chaoshan, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Guangdong 2: Pancakes and Puziguo.
? Chaoshan people have crossed Tomb-Sweeping Day and have a strong local color. Qingming pancake is very popular in Chaoshan, and almost every household is no exception. Pancakes are divided into two parts: skin and stuffing. The skin is made of flour mixed with water and stirred into a sticky paste, which is branded into round cooked dough sheets in hot soil, and it is as thin as paper. There are two kinds of fillings: salty and sweet, which are made of eggs, meat, liver, preserved meat, mushrooms, bean sprouts, leeks and other clinker. Sugar and maltose are specially processed into "sugar onions" for sweet stuffing. When eating, roll the pancake skin into a cylinder and eat it.
? Steamed pine nut. There is a tree in Chaoshan called Puzi Tree (also called Puding Tree, belonging to Ulmaceae), which has oval leaves and sweet fruit as big as mung beans. Legend has it that ancestors used this leaf to feed their hunger in famine years. During the Qingming period, the climate is getting warmer, the vegetation is shady and luxuriant, and the leaves of Puccinia are full of tender green. Later generations did not forget the past, so they picked this leaf in Tomb-Sweeping Day, pounded it into powder with rice chaff, fermented it with sugar, and steamed it in a pottery mold to make it into a plum blossom-shaped and peach-shaped, and also called a bowl-fermented peach. It is light green and very sweet. It is said that eating it can relieve accumulated heat and cure diseases.
? Jiangsu Tomb-Sweeping Day Traditional Food 3: Green Rice
? Chen Yuanliang's Volume 15 of Guang Ji at the Age of Years quoted Lingling Zongji, which recorded another cold food festival "Qingjing Rice": "Erythrina leaves, fine holly, especially those born near water. When people live in cold food, their leaves are dyed with rice, which is blue and bright, and the food is Ziyang. It is called Toarey Yang rice, and Taoism calls it green rice and stone hunger rice. " The custom of eating cold food and dyeing green rice seems to be more popular in the south.
? Apart from eating some special seasonal delicacies, Tomb-Sweeping Day is the time when the vegetation blooms, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing, so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming. The spring breeze is blowing, the flowers are blooming, and the willows are green. The Qingming season is most suitable for traveling to enjoy the spring outing. In this spring season, bring your family or invite three or five friends to feel the birds and flowers in spring, breathe the most simple breath of nature and feel the beautiful life given by nature. Everything is so comfortable.
? Traditional Food in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhejiang Province 4: Clear Fruit
? Before Qingming in Zhejiang, households ground glutinous rice flour and picked "Qingming grass" or mugwort leaves to make Qingming fruit. We have all seen mugwort leaves. "Qingming Grass" is commonly known as Miancai, Rice Vegetable, Foxifraga, and Rodent, and it sprouted white capillary leaves during the Qingming period. People pick the tops of leaves, wash them and mash them with glutinous rice flour. White rice noodles suddenly become green and tender when they meet green wormwood leaf juice or cotton vegetable juice.
? Stuffing includes dried bean curd and leek, and smoked fat sausage mixed with mustard powder. Some are wrapped in dumplings, some are made into round cakes, and some are wrapped in jiaozi-like but more exquisite ones. The wrinkled lace is green and transparent, and it is very beautiful.
? Fujian Tomb-Sweeping Day Traditional Food 5: Runbing and Braised Rice.
? Eating moist cakes on Qingming Festival is very popular in Fujian and Taiwan Province. In fact, the proper name of moist cakes is spring cakes. "Runbing" in Quanzhou and Xiamen uses flour as raw material to rub and bake into thin skin, and then rolls mixed pot dishes such as shredded carrots, shredded pork, fried oysters and coriander. It is simple to prepare and tastes fragrant and delicious. "Runbing" in Jinjiang is much more complicated, with a variety of fillings, which can even fill a table. What you want and don't expect may appear in it: peas, bean sprouts, dried beans, fish balls, shrimps, diced meat, fried oysters, radish vegetables, fried seaweed, shredded fried eggs, peanuts, coriander, shredded garlic ...
? In addition, regarding the Qingming food custom, we can't help but mention the "black rice" of the She family, because Mindong is the settlement of the She nationality. On the third day of March every year, every household of the She nationality cooks "black rice" and presents it to relatives and friends of the Han nationality. Over time, the local Han people also have the custom of eating "black rice" on Qingming Day. Especially in Kurong County, people have to use "black rice" for sacrifice every year.