Ching Ming Festival is not only a day to remember the ancestors, but also a festival to taste a variety of food. All over the Qingming customs have their own style, food culture is more colorful, known as the feast on the tip of the tongue. Let's embark on a culinary journey to explore the unique charm of Qingming food!
Jiangnan green dumplings: soft and sweet, springtime
Jiangnan Qingming Festival, green dumplings is the protagonist. These round, green dumplings are made of mugwort juice and glutinous rice flour, which are soft, sticky, and sweet. The dumplings are filled with a variety of fillings, including fresh meat, bean paste, vegetable meat, and sesame seeds, making each bite a memorable one. It is said that the green dumplings also have the symbolism of warding off evil spirits and praying for good fortune, and they are a must-have food for ancestor worship and trekking during the Ching Ming Festival.
Northwest Cold Food Noodles: Warming the heart and stomach, remembering the deceased
In northwest China, such as Shaanxi and Shanxi, cold food noodles are a traditional food for the Qingming Festival. Cold food noodles are thin noodles made of buckwheat flour or wheat flour, boiled and topped with bacon, which usually consists of lamb, eggs, tofu and other ingredients. Cold food noodles not only taste delicious, but also have a long history. Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, when Cao Cao ordered a ban on fire to avoid the plague, people could only eat cold food, hence the origin of cold food noodles. Eating cold food noodles on the Qingming Festival is a way of paying tribute to ancestors and remembering history.
Northern eggs touch music: fun, joyful
In Shandong, Hebei and other northern regions, the Qingming Festival, there is an interesting custom - eggs touch music. People will be boiled eggs dyed in various colors, and then collide with each other, whose eggs are broken, who will send their own eggs to each other. Not only is it fun, but it is also a symbol of joy and good fortune. It is said that the noise made when the eggs collide can scare away small ghosts and bring good luck.
Southern Ching Ming Kuey Teow: soft and sticky, sending thoughts
In the southern regions of Fujian and Guangdong, Ching Ming Kuey Teow is a must-have food for the Ching Ming Festival. Ching Ming Kuey Teow is a soft and sticky snack made of glutinous rice flour, with different shapes, such as peach, round, diamond, etc. The filling of Ching Ming Kuey Teow is also very soft and sticky. The filling of Qingming kuey teow is also very rich, there are ai*, bean paste, pork, pickles, etc. A bite, soft and sticky, sweet and salty. Qingming kuey teow is not only a tribute to ancestors, but also a way for people to send their condolences and thoughts.
Colors of Qingming dishes: delicious and scenic, inheritance of customs
In addition to the above specialties, there are many other scenic dishes for the Qingming Festival in various places, such as snails in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, fish skin in Anhui, green vegetables and tofu soup in Hubei, artemesia poi in Hunan, Qingming poi in Sichuan, and fresh flower cakes in Yunnan, etc. These dishes are not only delicious, but are also a way for people to send their thoughts and memories. These dishes are not only delicious, but also carry rich cultural connotations. Cooking these dishes is not only the inheritance of the Qingming custom, but also the remembrance and remembrance of ancestors.
Conclusion
What do people eat at Qingming? The answers to this question are varied and wonderful. From the green dumplings in the south of the Yangtze River, to the cold food noodles in the northwest, to the egg bumper in the north, as well as the Qingming kuey teow in the south and various kinds of Qingming dishes, all of them highlight the unique charm of Qingming customs in different places. In tasting these delicacies, we also remember our ancestors, pass on the culture, and feel the unique significance of the Qingming Festival.