Dietary customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day
1, what does Tomb-Sweeping Day from Jinnan eat?
During the Qingming Festival, it is customary to steam large steamed buns with white flour, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle, and the outside is coiled into a dragon's shape, and an egg is tied in the middle of the dragon's body, named "Zifu". It is necessary to steam a great total "blessing" to symbolize family reunion and happiness. When going to the grave, the general "Zifu" is dedicated to the ancestors, and the whole family will share it after the grave sweeping. According to the old custom in Shanghai, the steamed cakes used for sacrifice are penetrated with wicker, dried and stored. When they arrive in long summer, they will be fried and given to children. It is said that they will not get sick in summer after eating them.
2. What does Shanghainese Tomb-Sweeping Day eat?
Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating youth league. Blend bromegrass juice and glutinous rice together, so that the green juice Qingming cake and rice flour are blended with each other, then wrap with stuffing such as bean paste and jujube paste, and put it in a steamer with reed leaves as the bottom. Steamed green balls are bright green in color and fragrant, which is the most distinctive seasonal food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are also some people in Shanghai, Tomb-Sweeping Day, who love to eat peach blossom porridge and use knife fish at grave sweeping and family banquets.
3. What does Tomb-Sweeping Day from Zhejiang eat?
Every family in Tomb-Sweeping Day wraps zongzi, which can be used as a sacrifice to the grave or as dry food for hiking. As the saying goes: "Qingming Zongzi is firm." Before and after Qingming, snails were fat and strong. As the saying goes: "Qingming snail, a goose." Farmers have the habit of eating snails in Qingming. On this day, they use needles to pick out snail meat for cooking, which is called "picking green". After eating, the snail shells are thrown on the roof. It is said that the rolling sound energy from the roof tiles scares away mice, which is beneficial to sericulture after Qingming. On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, there will be a club wine. People in the same ancestral hall have dinner together. People who don't have ancestral halls usually have dinner together with the grandchildren of the houses under the great-grandfather The dishes of Shejiu are mainly fish, tofu and vegetables, and home-brewed sweet white wine. There is a saying in Heshan Town, Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province that "Qingming Festival is like a New Year". On Qingming Night, family reunion is emphasized for dinner. There are several traditional dishes on the table: fried snails, glutinous rice embedded with lotus roots, sprouted beans, Malantou and so on. These dishes are all related to sericulture. Throwing leftover snail shells into the house, it is said that the sound can scare away mice, and caterpillars will get into the shells to make nests and stop harassing silkworms. Eating lotus root is to wish the silk that silkworm babies spit often and well. Eating germinated beans is the oral color to win the "fortune". Eating fresh vegetables such as Malantou is to take the word "green" to match the "green" of "Qingming".
4. What does Fuzhou native Tomb-Sweeping Day eat?
Every Qingming Festival, every household should make a kind of food called Qingming Fruit, which is used to pay homage to ancestors when sweeping graves. Qingming fruit is somewhat like jiaozi in shape, but it tastes quite different. The skin of Qingming fruit is made of a plant called Artemisia argyi, a perennial herb with small yellow flowers and leaves as small as compositae, which are covered with awnings and clusters. Every year before the Qingming Festival, women come to the fields in groups of three or five with bamboo blue in their hands to pick mugwort leaves happily. The fresh mugwort leaves are piled up in baskets, which is really attractive. After Ai Yecai came home, he began the complicated process of making clear fruit. Women were like a masseur, and the green wormwood turned into delicious clear fruit in a blink of an eye.
5. What do you eat in northern Tomb-Sweeping Day?
Eat prickly heat; There is a custom of eating prickly heat in Tomb-Sweeping Day, north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a fried food, crispy and exquisite, and it was called "cold utensils" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold food in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world. There are differences between the south and the north in the prickly heat that is popular in the Han area: the prickly heat in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; Southern prickly heat is exquisite and meticulous, and it is mainly made of rice and flour. In ethnic minority areas, there are many kinds of prickly heat with different flavors, especially in Uygur, Dongxiang, Naxi and Ningxia Hui ethnic groups.
Qingming snail; The Qingming Festival is the best time to eat snails. Because snails have not yet propagated at this time, they are the most plump and plump, so there is a saying that "Qingming snails are worth a goose". There are many ways to eat snails, which can be fried with onions, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar. You can also cook and pick out snail meat, which can be mixed, drunk, bad, and simmered. If you eat properly, it can really be called "snails are so interesting that delicious wine is not as good as it is". In addition, there are customs of eating eggs, cakes, sandwich cakes, Qingming zongzi, steamed cakes, Qingming cakes, dried porridge and other nutritious foods in the northern and southern parts of China during the Qingming Festival.
What are the special foods in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
Zituiyan
In the northern festival food, there is a seed push swallow, which is named after meson push. In the Song Dynasty, people made swallows out of flour and jujube paste, strung them with wicker and hung them on the door to summon the soul of meson push, so it was called Zituiyan. During the Qingming Festival in Yulin and Yan 'an, northern Shaanxi, steamed buns were pushed, also called old buns, which were as big as half a catty to a catty like the helmets of ancient military commanders. Eggs or red dates were wrapped inside, and there was a top on it, and the top was covered with flowers. Mianhua is a swallow, insect, snake, rabbit or Four Treasures of the Study made of flour. This is for men to eat. And women eat long shuttle buns, and unmarried girls eat ground buns. Children eat noodles such as swallows, snakes and tigers, and boys like to eat tiger buns best. This custom is still circulating today.
qingtuan; sweet green rice balls
Among the seasonal foods in the south, eating green balls in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is very distinctive. According to legend, Li Xiucheng in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was hunted down by the Qing army, so he dressed up as a farmer to drive cattle and plow the fields before he escaped the pursuit of the Qing army. However, the Qing soldiers set up soldiers to search in the village. He could not enter the village, but he was so hungry that he asked the villager Zhang San to find him food. When Zhang San saw a brainwave of wormwood, he boiled wormwood and added glutinous rice, steamed out green dumplings and sent them to Li Xiucheng. Li Cai had a full stomach. When it spread, it became a new food in Qingming period. Later, there were more ways to make it and it was more delicious. Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces often eat red disasters in Qingming.
Moisten cake
Eating moist cakes in southern Fujian is also called spring rolls and spring cakes. The method is to take a thin flour cake as the skin, cut green vegetables such as bean sprouts, leeks, celery, carrots, dried beancurd, shredded pork, etc. as the stuffing, sprinkle with powdered sugar, seaweed crisp and other powders and roll them into a tube.
Sazi
The real name of cold tools originated in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Sprinkled seeds are fried pasta, crisp and delicious, and some are better sprinkled with sesame seeds. In Qi Min Yao Shu, it is said to be a ring cake. This kind of food is still found among Uighurs and Hui people in the south, north and northwest.
Qingming snail
In the south, snails were the most plump and plump before breeding in Qingming Festival, which is known as "a snail in Qingming Festival is worth a goose". Eating snail meat in Qingming Festival is called picking green. After eating, the snail shell is thrown on the roof, saying that the rolling sound energy emitted scares away mice and is convenient for raising silkworms. Can be fried with shell, can also be cooked and picked out snail meat cold salad or fried.
Save eggs
Eating eggs on Qingming Day is called saving eggs. There are generally two kinds of egg saving: one is egg painting, in which eggs and duck eggs are cooked and madder juice is used as dye to depict flowers on the eggshell. After the eggshell is peeled off in a few days, the blue flower pattern appears on the protein, which is really beautiful. The other is egg carving, in which eggs and duck eggs are cooked, and then a pattern is drawn on the eggshell with a pen, and then the whole egg is hollowed out with a knife, and then the egg white and yolk are taken out in turn. The exquisiteness of its carving is amazing, which can be eaten and watched.
What does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat for health?
As early as the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, cold food lasted for one month, and people mainly ate barley porridge. Since the Jin Dynasty, the varieties of cold food have been increasing, and the production methods are more particular. For example, in Sun Chu's "Sacrifice Tweets" at that time, there were "a plate of millet rice, two bowls of fermented cheese". That is, semi-solidified cheese made of granular millet rice, sweet wine and milk of cattle and sheep, or paste made of fruit kernels. There are also foods made of japonica rice and white flour. Eating soup and porridge was still very popular in Tang and Song Dynasties, but there were also wheat cakes, cheese, milk cakes, gluten, tofu, frozen meat, preserved meat and so on, and the food should be enriched.
According to the advice of modern nutritionists, we should pay attention to diet and eat more seasonal fruits and vegetables, such as sweet potatoes, Chinese cabbage, taro, radish, lotus root, black fungus, cucumber, etc., while yam moistens the lungs. Spinach is good for blood and should be eaten more.
In soup conditioning, there are many kinds of medicinal materials, such as tremella, Huangmao, Huiren, Mulberry, Chrysanthemum, Almond, etc. Eating more "three black" foods, that is, black rice, black sesame seeds and seaweed, can nourish the liver and strengthen the body. Eat more seed plants, and often drink healthy porridge with grains.
People with high blood pressure should eat more foods rich in potassium and calcium but low in sodium, such as potatoes, eggplant, kelp and bamboo shoots. Foods with high calcium content include milk, sour milk and shrimp skin. Eat less broth, because broth can promote the increase of uric acid in the body, promote the deposition of bone calcium, and increase the burden on the heart, liver and kidney. At the same time, it is necessary to limit the intake of salt and supplement appropriate vitamins C and B, and the protein is mainly plant protein. Eat less high-calorie food, animal offal, fried food and hair food.
People tend to have a good appetite in spring, but we should pay attention to moderate diet to protect the normal function of the spleen and stomach. During the Qingming period, the diet should be warm and eat more vegetables and fruits, especially seasonal vegetables. During the Qingming period, it is also suitable for eating more sweet potatoes, Chinese cabbage, radishes, taro and other foods to warm the stomach and eliminate dampness. In addition, Tomb-Sweeping Day should not eat bamboo shoots, chicken, etc., but eat more foods that protect the liver and nourish the lungs, such as buried vegetables, spinach and yam, which are good for the health.
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