Foods suitable for Qingming: green dumplings, deep-fried noodles, eggs, steamed buns and pancakes.

1, green dumplings

The green dumplings are the most representative food of Qingming Festival, which are green, sticky and soft, not sweet and not greasy, with a light but long grass aroma, which is even more fragrant and smooth in the mouth. The custom, which dates back more than 2,000 years, is to prepare a lot of pastries in advance to satisfy the hunger because fire is not allowed on the Cold Food Festival.

2, deep-fried noodle cakes

The deep-fried noodle cakes are a traditional custom of Qingming Festival. Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried noodle food, which is made of rice flour rolled into thin strips and deep-fried. They are in different shapes, either twisted or gridded, with yellow color and bright, crispy to eat and more fragrant to chew.

3, eggs

To the Qingming Festival, the family old lifetime people will prepare some eggs, with a very auspicious symbolism, eat eggs in the Qingming Festival, meaning that the new year to be able to health, the family will not be sick. Eating eggs at Qingming is called eating "festival eggs", festival eggs are divided into two kinds, one is "painting eggs", the other is "carving eggs".

4, Zi Push Bun

Shaanxi Zi Push Bun, also known as the old bun, face flower, also known as steamed bun. With the fermentation of bad flour, flour flower is a small bun, the shape of the swallow, insects, snakes, rabbits and other small animals, ink and paper and other items, all have their own symbolism.

5, pancakes

Xiamen folk proverb has a cloud "Qingming ate pancakes", meaning that the Qingming Festival family after sweeping the tomb to get together to wrap pancakes to eat. Nowadays, most places in southern Fujian still retain this custom.