As the saying goes, "Food is the first priority for the people." Traditional festivals are often accompanied by traditional delicacies, and there are different seasonal foods in different places.

So what traditional foods should be eaten during Qingming Festival and what are the traditional customs?

Today, I share with you 3 traditional Qingming delicacies and 3 traditional customs. I wish you all happiness, health and good luck in the year ahead.

Traditional food during Qingming Festival 1. Youth League Eating Youth League during Qingming Festival is mainly a local custom popular in the Jiangnan area.

But now, basically this custom has become popular across the country, and people will start making green dumplings when the Qingming Festival comes to prepare for the Qingming Festival.

The green dough is bright green, glutinous and soft, neither sweet nor greasy, with a light but long grass aroma, which makes it even more fragrant and smooth in the mouth.

There is also a legend about eating Qingtuan during Qingming Festival, that is, the Qing soldiers began to hunt down Chen Taiping, the general of Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In order to help Chen Taiping, local farmers used mugwort and glutinous rice flour to make fragrant and glutinous green dumplings. Chen Taiping successfully escaped back to his base camp after eating the green dumplings.

Later, Li Xiucheng ordered all Taiping soldiers to learn how to make Youth League, so the custom of eating Youth League during Qingming Festival spread.

2. Steamed buns (sǎn) It is a traditional custom to eat steamed buns during Qingming Festival.

Fried dumplings are a type of fried pasta, made from rice noodles rolled into thin strips and deep-fried.

They come in different shapes, either twisted or grid-shaped, with bright yellow color. They taste crispy and become more fragrant the more you chew them.

The fire ban started during the Qingming Festival. At that time, many places would prepare soybean seeds so that they would have something to eat during the fire ban. The cost of soybean seeds is relatively low, and they are easy to store. They have a crispy texture and are very popular among the people.

So it has been passed down to this day.

3. Eggs During the Qingming Festival, older people in the family will prepare some eggs, which have a very auspicious meaning. Eating eggs during the Qingming Festival means that you will be healthy in the new year and that no one in the family will get sick.

Eating eggs during the Qingming Festival is called "eating eggs". There are two types of eggs, one is "painted eggs" and the other is "carved eggs".

The colorfully painted eggs can be eaten, but the "carved eggs" are only for viewing.

Boiled eggs are good at preserving and can be easily combined to satisfy hunger. They are the first choice for people to spend the Qingming Festival!

Traditional customs of Qingming Festival 1. Tomb-sweeping. In Chinese history, cold food and fire were forbidden, and ancestors were worshiped. Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship during Qingming Festival have become a continuous custom and tradition since then.

Even in today's society, people still have the custom of visiting tombs to pay respects to their ancestors before and after Tomb Sweeping Day: weeding out weeds, placing offerings, offering incense and prayers in front of the tombs, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bouquet of flowers.

To express the memory of ancestors.

2. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, and nature is full of vitality. It is a great time for outings.

Chinese people have long maintained the habit of going outing during the Qingming Festival.

Legend has it that the Qingming Outing has been around for a long time.

The intrinsic meaning of outing during the Qingming Festival is to comply with the seasonal solar terms. In March of spring, when vitality begins to flourish and all things sprout, people go out of their houses and go to the wild to actively cater to the seasons and promote the flow of Yang Qi in their bodies, which is good for the body.

Health benefits a lot.

3. Willow planting Qingming Festival is the time when willows sprout and turn green. Folks have the custom of breaking willows, wearing willows and planting willows.

When people go out for an outing, they break off a few willow sticks. They can hold them in their hands and play with them. They can also make them into hats and wear them on their heads. They can also take them home and insert them on door lintels and eaves.

The custom of planting willows is related to avoiding immune diseases.

People in the Tang Dynasty believed that wearing willow branches on their heads when offering sacrifices by the river can protect them from poisonous insects.

After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, when people returned from outings, they often planted willows at their doorsteps to avoid insect pests.