In modern society, supply exceeded demand, and festivals gradually became a means of commerce. Fifteen of the Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn dumplings and Dragon Boat Festival dumplings expensive fly up and the Chinese people on the form of obsession is inseparable! But we never seem to have heard of any specific food for the Qingming Festival, except for dumplings!
Not only in China, but Korea, Japan and the Ryukyus now retain the custom of celebrating Qingming Festival! The Qingming Festival can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty in China, that is after the festival is divided into spring festival and autumn festival, the autumn festival is later known as Chung Yeung Festival, the spring festival is the Qingming Festival that we are talking about today, the reason why the Qingming Festival is more grand than the Chung Yeung Festival is because of the combination of the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival!
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Duke of Jin was forced into exile, there was no food to eat during the exile, the minister Jie Zhi Pui cut a piece of meat from his own thigh to cook a pot of meat soup for the Duke of Jin, Jie ate it and gradually regained his spirit, and then Jie became the king, but forgot to reward Jie Zhi Pui when he was rewarded, Jie Zhi Pui retired, and Jie went to ask him to come out of the mountain, and accidentally burned Jie Zhi Pui to death when he was setting fire to the mountain. In order to commemorate the death of Jie Zhitui, Duke Wen of Jin, Chong Er will be the day the whole country is not allowed to make fire, all the food can only be eaten cold food, so we call this day Cold Food Festival! The day before the Qingming Festival, it happens to be the day before the Qingming Festival, because the two festivals are in honor of the deceased, so later people merged the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival, in the Qingming Festival to eat cold food has become a custom!
Even the ban on fire did not stop the Chinese love of food, some say Shaanxi cold skin was invented on the cold food festival! Nowadays, many places in China still have the traditional food of Qingming Festival! For example, the Qingming fruit is shaped like a dumpling but has a very different flavor. The outer skin is made of sage or mugwort, and the filling includes leeks, eggs, and dried tofu.
The deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried noodle food, which is called "cold food" in ancient times, deep-fried before the cold food festival and eaten on the day of the festival. The deep-fried noodle cakes have been around since ancient times, but nowadays there are differences between the north and the south: the northern deep-fried noodle cakes are made of wheat flour, which is generous; the southern deep-fried noodle cakes are made of rice flour, which is delicate.
The green dumplings are made of the juice of grass, which are sweet, soft and delicious, with the aroma of mugwort leaves. Green dumplings are mainly popular in the south of the Yangtze River during the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival, and are a traditional Han Chinese festival food.
Nowadays, few people will go to the trouble of making these foods at home on Qingming Festival, but the Chinese people's respect for tradition and reverence for their ancestors has not diminished at all!