Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in my country. Every year during the Tomb-Sweeping Day, people visit their tombs to pay respects to their ancestors. Each festival has its own delicacies that should be eaten, and the Tomb-Sweeping Day is no exception. So what kind of delicacies should be eaten on the Tomb-Sweeping Day?

What traditional foods are eaten during Qingming Festival?

What to eat during the Qingming Festival: 1. Qingtuan. People in the Jiangnan area have the custom of eating Qingtuan during the Qingming Festival.

Qingtuan is made by mashing a plant called wheat straw with a tool and squeezing out the juice. The juice and glutinous rice flour are kneaded into a ball. In this way, the green skin of Qingtuan is ready, and red bean paste is wrapped in the middle.

The fillings are then steamed in a steamer. After taking them out of the pot, apply a layer of vegetable oil on the surface, and the green dumplings are ready.

2. Ai Cong, there is a saying that "eating Ai Cong before and after Qingming will keep you from getting sick all year round". Ai Cong is a must-have traditional food for Hakka people during Qingming Festival.

Moxa cake is made by boiling mugwort in water, draining the boiled mugwort and then chopping it into grass paste. The finer the better, then mix the mugwort paste, glutinous rice flour and the water in which the mugwort was boiled before and knead it into a ball.

, then wrap fillings such as sesame seeds and peanuts in the middle, seal and shape it into a square or round shape, put it in a steamer and steam it until it is done.

3. Sanzi. During the Qingming Festival, both the south and the north have the custom of eating Sanzi. Sanzi is a kind of fried food. Although both the South and the North eat Sanzi, the cooking method is different between the South and the North.

, The steamed buns in the south are made with rice noodles as the main ingredient and are exquisitely made, while the steamed buns in the north are made with wheat noodles as the main ingredient and are elegantly made.

What traditional delicacies to eat during the Qingming Festival? 1. Green dumplings. In the Jiangnan region of my country, it is customary to eat green dumplings during the Qingming Festival.

Generally, mugwort juice is mixed into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped in delicate bean paste filling or lotus paste. It is not sweet or greasy, and has a light but long grass aroma.

2. Wunen rice, also known as black rice. Every year on the third day of March, every household of the She people cooks "Wunen rice" and gives it as a gift to relatives and friends of the Han people. Over time, the local Han people also have "Wunen rice" as a Qingming food.

The custom of eating rice.

3. Pancakes. Pancakes are a traditional specialty in Chaozhou, Guangdong and Fuzhou, Fujian. They are also a festive food during the Qingming Festival. Every morning on the Qingming Festival, people go up to the mountains to worship their ancestors. After returning home after worshiping their ancestors, people will eat pancakes as lunch.

In addition, the delicacies of Qingming Festival include Zitui steamed buns, mustard rice, mugwort cakes, etc.

Why is it customary to eat Qingtuan balls during Qingming Festival?

First of all, the Qingming Festival refers to the 15 days after the Spring Equinox, also known as the "Outing Festival". It is one of China's traditional festivals and one of the sacrificial festivals. It mainly involves worshiping ancestors and sweeping tombs. On the day of Qingming Festival, many people also

Eating Qingtuan is a custom, mainly because of the Zhou Dynasty. "Zhou Li" records that fire cannot be made on the day of mid-spring, also known as "Three Days of Cold Food", so people will prepare cakes in advance to satisfy their hunger.

That is what we often call the Youth League.

What is the meaning of eating Qingtuan during Qingming Festival? One of the more interesting sayings is that it is said that Chen Taiping, Li Xiucheng's right-hand general in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was hunted down by the Qing soldiers. At that time, he had no food and was hunted down, so he had to hide in the house of a farmer friend.

After returning home, when the farmer wanted to bring something for Chen Taiping to eat without being discovered, he walked out of the door and stepped on a clump of wormwood. He slipped and his whole body was covered in the color of wormwood.

He suddenly understood. He used mugwort to knead the stuffing into the mugwort mud, then hid the green dough in the mugwort bushes and mixed it in.

Chen Taiping ate the green dumplings and found them fragrant, glutinous and non-sticky to the teeth.

He came up with a plan. Such a Youth League could not only evade the sentries but also satisfy hunger. Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn how to form a Youth League to defend themselves against the enemy.

So the custom of eating Youth League came from this.