Traditional foods of Qingming Festival include green dumplings, deep-fried noodle cakes, steamed buns, jujube cakes, runny cake dishes, and five-color glutinous rice.

1. Green dumplings?

The Qingming Festival, the southern part of the country has the custom of eating green dumplings. Green dumplings green as jade, glutinous and soft, fragrant, eat sweet but not greasy, fat but not fat. Green dumplings or people in the southern part of the people used to worship ancestors must be food, because of this, green dumplings in the southern part of the folk food customs are particularly important.

2, Deep-fried noodle cake

There is a custom of eating deep-fried noodle cake at 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.

3, steamed buns? ?

Half of the steamed buns are eaten in the Qingming Festival around Shaanxi, and the buns are decorated with the shape of birds and snakes. It is said that the birds and snakes protected Jie Zi Tui when he went up to Mianshan Mountain, so this is as a memorial.

4, date cake ?

Jujube cake, also known as "Zi push cake", some places in the north of the fermentation of bad flour, sandwiched jujube steamed. They are also accustomed to the date cake made of swallow-shaped, with willow string hanging on the door, can be cold food, in order to commemorate the noble quality of the mediator to push not to seek fame and fortune.

5, Run cake dishes?

Every Qingming Festival, people in Quanzhou have eaten "Run cake dishes" custom. It is said that this is the ancient cold food festival food customs of the legacy. "Run cake dishes" should be the proper name of the spring cake.

The Qingming to eat the Run cake, not only is unique to Quanzhou, Xiamen people also preferred. Legend has it that the pioneer of this way of eating, is the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Guangdong military affairs of Tongan people Cai Fuyi. At that time, Tong'an was under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou Prefecture, so this way of eating was spread, and in southern Fujian, it became a famous family dish.

6, five-color glutinous rice?

Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack of the Buyi and Zhuang regions. Because the glutinous rice is black, red, yellow, white, purple five colors and named, also known as "Wu rice.

Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar or during the Qingming Festival, people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi commonly make five-color glutinous rice. The Zhuang people love the five-color glutinous rice and regard it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest.

The above references? People's Daily Online - Green dumplings Run cake dishes? 6 must-eat traditional dishes for the Qingming Festival