The food and its meaning of Qingming Festival: Qingtuan means good health and good luck, Ai dumplings means that future generations will not suffer disasters, five-color glutinous rice means a good harvest, dumplings means branches and leaves, eggs mean good luck will always be with you, etc.
1. Qingtuan means health and good luck: Qingtuan is the most representative food during the Qingming Festival. It is bright green, glutinous and soft, not sweet but not greasy, with a light but long grassy aroma, and it is even more refreshing when eaten in the mouth.
Slippery and waxy.
This custom can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago. Because fires are not allowed during the Cold Food Festival, people prepare a lot of cakes in advance.
2. Moxa dumplings mean that future generations will not suffer from disasters: As the saying goes: "Eat moxa dumplings during the Qingming Festival, and you will have no troubles or disasters."
During the Qingming Festival, every family must prepare some mugwort.
Many delicious foods can be made with fresh mugwort. In addition to green dumplings, mugwort dumplings, and mugwort cakes, mugwort dumplings are also a very common traditional seasonal delicacy.
"During the Qingming Festival, we go on an outing to dig out the colorful tender stems of mugwort fields. We make dumplings with rice flour and caramel sugar, and we cook the pot full of farm game." Eating mugwort dumplings during the Qingming Festival is a tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
3. The five-color glutinous rice symbolizes a good harvest: Every year during the Qingming Festival, every household of the Zhuang, Buyi, Miao and other ethnic groups in Guangxi has the tradition of making five-color glutinous rice as a way to worship their ancestors and eat in season.
Five-color glutinous rice is named after its five colors: black, red, yellow, white and purple. It is also called "black rice", green japonica rice or flower rice.
4. The meaning of rice dumplings is to spread branches and spread leaves: Eating rice dumplings during the Qingming Festival is a traditional custom of old Beijingers during the Qingming Festival.
Sanzi is a kind of fried pasta, which was called "Hanju" in ancient times.
It is recorded in ancient books: "The cold utensils are instant noodles. Mix the noodles with glutinous flour, add a little salt, and twist them into a ring shape...it will break into pieces and be as crisp as snow in the mouth." 5. Eggs symbolize good luck: Qingming Festival
Eating eggs is called "egg saving".
The older generation believes that no matter whether the family has money or not, they should eat eggs during Qingming Festival to maintain good health throughout the year.
Eating eggs during the Qingming Festival also originated from eating cold food during the Qingming Festival. Boiled eggs are a food reserve for spending the days when no fire is made for cooking during the Qingming Festival.
In addition, cooked eggs are also convenient food to carry during Qingming outings.