What to eat at Qingming Festival
1. Green dumplings, people in the south of the Yangtze River in the Qingming Festival have eaten green dumplings of the dietary customs. The green dumplings are made from a plant called wheatgrass, which is pounded with a tool to squeeze out the juice, and then kneaded with glutinous rice flour to form a ball, so that the green dumplings of the green skin is ready, and then wrapped with a filling made of red bean paste, and then placed in a steamer to be steamed, and then smeared with a layer of vegetable oil on the surface of the pan after it comes out of the pan, so that the green dumplings are ready. 2. Mugwort is a traditional food for Hakka people during the Qingming Festival. After boiling water with mugwort, the boiled mugwort is drained and chopped into grass mud, the finer the better, and then the mugwort mud, glutinous rice flour and the water of boiled mugwort are mixed and kneaded together to form a ball, and then sesame seeds, peanuts and other fillings are wrapped in the middle, and then sealed and pinched into square or round shapes, and then put into a steamer to be cooked, and so the mugwort is ready. 3. deep-fried noodle cake, in the Chingming Festival, deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of traditional food in Hakka people. Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried food. Although deep-fried noodle cake is eaten in both the south and the north, the practice is different in the south and the north, the deep-fried noodle cake in the south is made of rice flour as the main material, which is exquisite and meticulous, while the deep-fried noodle cake in the north is made of wheat flour as the main material, which is generous and spontaneous.
What traditional food do you eat at Qingming Festival
First, green dumplings, in the south of China, there is a habit of eating green dumplings at Qingming Festival. Generally with the juice of mugwort mixed into the glutinous rice flour, then wrapped into the delicate bean paste filling or lotus seed paste, not sweet and not greasy, with a light but long grass aroma. Two? On the third day of the third month every year, every She ethnic family cooks "Wu Nim Rice" and gives it to their Han Chinese relatives and friends, and over time, the local Han Chinese people have also developed the custom of eating "Wu Nim Rice" at the time of the Ching Ming Festival. Pancake is a traditional specialty of Chaozhou, Guangdong and Fuzhou, Fujian, and is also a festival food of Qingming Festival. Whenever people go to the mountains to worship their ancestors in the morning of Qingming Festival, and go home after worshiping their ancestors, they will use pancake as their lunch. In addition, there are other food of Qingming Festival, such as Zi Pui Bun, Mustard Rice, Artemisia Pi Ba Ba, and so on.
Why eat green dumplings on Qingming Festival
Customs. First of all, the Qingming Festival refers to the 15 days after the equinox, also called "Treading Green Festival", is one of China's traditional festivals, but also one of the sacrificial festivals, mainly ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping, and the Qingming Festival this day there are a lot of people will eat green dumplings, eat green dumplings is a custom, mainly because of the Zhou Dynasty, the "Weekly Rituals" on the record can not be in the middle of the spring this day to lead the fire, and also called "cold food three days", and the "cold food three days". It is also called "three days of cold food", so people will prepare cakes in advance to fill up the hunger, which is what we often call green dumplings.
What is the meaning of eating green dumplings at Qingming
There is a more interesting story is that according to legend, in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Xiu-cheng powerful general Chen Taiping was pursued by the Qing soldiers, when there was no food and was pursued by people, can only hide in the home of a farmer friend. After returning home, the farmer wanted to bring something to Chen Taiping to eat in order not to be found, out of the door, a foot on a bush of mugwort, slipped and fell, all over the color of mugwort. He suddenly realized that he had used the mugwort to knead the filling into the mugwort mud, and then hid the green dumplings in the mugwort bush to mix it up. Chen Taiping ate the green dumplings and found them fragrant, sticky and not sticky. He had a plan, such a green ball can not only avoid the sentries but also hunger, Li Xiu Cheng ordered the Taiping army should learn to make green ball to protect themselves from the enemy. So the custom of eating green dumplings is so derived.