What are the traditional foods to be eaten on the Qingming Festival?

1, green dumplings

The green dumplings are the most representative of the Qingming Festival food, green, green, glutinous and soft, not sweet and not greasy, with a light but long grass aroma, eat in the mouth is fragrant and smooth. This custom can be traced back to more than 2,000 years ago, when people prepared a lot of pastries in advance to satisfy their hunger because they could not make fire during the Cold Food Festival. The green dumplings were made by pounding green wormwood and glutinous rice flour and then stuffed with bean paste, and could be kept for 3~5 days, which satisfied people's needs for rituals and food without cooking. Since the development of green dumplings, their function as a ritual has been fading, and they are more of a fresh taste experience for the people.

2. Deep-fried noodle cake (sǎn)

It is a traditional custom to eat deep-fried noodle cake on Qingming Festival. Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried noodle food, which is made of rice flour rolled into thin strips and deep-fried. They are made of rice flour, rolled into thin strips and fried in oil. They are in different shapes, either twisted or gridded, with bright yellow color and crispy taste, and the more they are chewed, the more fragrant they are. Started in the cold food festival ban on fire, that time many places will be prepared to sprinkle, in order to have something to eat in the ban on fire, sprinkle the cost is relatively low, and easy to save, the texture of the crispy and crunchy, very popular among the people, so it has been passed down to the present.