Youth League

The Qingming food that Nanjing people are most familiar with is 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 this way, green as jade, glutinous and soft, and fragrant green dumplings are baked.

mugwort zanba

mugwort is also a common Qingming food. After the glutinous rice is steamed, it is mixed with wormwood leaves and mashed into rice paste. Some peanuts or sesame seeds are wrapped in the middle, and small green Baba is steamed in a pot, which becomes soft and sweet wormwood Baba.

qingmingguo

qingmingguo looks a little like jiaozi, but its taste is quite different. The skin of Qingming fruit is made of a plant called Artemisia argyi. The leaves of Artemisia argyi are mashed and mixed with rice flour to make a bright green dough, which is fresh and tender. The stuffing of Qingming fruit is also very particular, and the production is fine. There are smoked fat sausages with mustard powder, dried tofu and leeks, and other delicious combinations. Wrapping Qingming fruit has the same effect as wrapping jiaozi, but wrapping Qingming fruit seems more delicate, and it folds like lace.

Qingming snail

Qingming season is the best time to eat snails, so there is a saying that "Qingming snail is worth a goose". Stir-fried snails are a seafood dish with Nanjing flavor. Made of snails, peppers and various seasonings, it tastes fresh and spicy. Stir-fried snails stir-fry a large plate, which can be eaten with hands and toothpicks, or directly with snail meat. For example, stir-fried snails with leeks are the most fashionable dishes in Qingming Festival.

mussel bean curd soup

During the Qingming Festival in Nanjing, another delicious food is mussel bean curd 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, cut it into strips with a width of one centimeter, and simmer ginger, onion, bacon or ham, tofu and crooked meat into a thick soup, which is very delicious.

Fresh and tender wild vegetables

All kinds of fresh and tender wild vegetables have become the delicacies on the table of Nanjing people during the Qingming Festival. Stir-fried Artemisia selengensis or dried Artemisia selengensis, together with a little pointed pepper, is simply a dish on the tip of Nanjing people's hearts. This season is the best time to eat Malantou. The fun of eating wild vegetables in Qingming Festival is that you can pick them by yourself. Every year during Qingming Festival, many people in Nanjing spontaneously form a "folk wild vegetable group" to launch a large-scale search for wild vegetables in the whole city, and dig wild vegetables with a small shovel and a small basket during the outing season to pursue the golden memories of childhood.