1. Eating buckwheat vegetables

It is an old custom of Zhaoqing people to eat buckwheat vegetables during Qingming Festival. The pronunciation of "buckwheat" in Cantonese is the same as "carriage", which means that the ancestors will return home in a sedan chair. , to avoid the pain of sudden warmth and cold. Some people also cook and stir-fry the pork sacrificed to ancestors with buckwheat, or fry spring rolls with shredded pork and eggs. Until all the vegetables and meat are eaten, the "Xingqing" for that year is not considered complete.

2. Eating sugar cane

There is also the custom of eating sugar cane during Qingming Festival in Zhaoqing, which means joy and sweetness. Adults will tell children that when eating sugar cane, they should eat it from beginning to end and not throw it away before eating. It is said that only in this way can things be done from beginning to end, starting well and ending well.

3. Make Fajie Ci (sound)

In Huaiji, according to custom, every household will make Fajie Ci during the Qingming Festival, using glutinous rice and rice flour mixed with water to make it into a paste, adding Serve with sesame seeds and steamed peanuts in a "copper tray". They have two flavors: sweet and salty. The sticky rice is mixed with a mouthful of sesame seeds. It has a peanut aroma and is very chewy.

Many people also make fried glutinous rice cakes and round big glutinous rice balls (also called "big golden balls"). In the past, after worshiping the ancestors, these delicacies would be distributed to the children, which meant that the children would grow up healthily and quickly.

4. Evaporated cakes and rice dumplings

In Guangning County, rice dumplings and steamed rice cakes are indispensable local foods for worshiping ancestors. "Zongzi" is a homophone for "all sons", which means The population is prosperous; and "Fa Gao" means that the ancestors protect the future generations from prosperity.

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Before the Qingming Festival, some Zhaoqing citizens will buy fresh willow branches and insert them on their doors, which means seeking good luck and avoiding disasters.

People in Guangning call the practice of sweeping tombs on mountains as "Xiuqing", which means "repairing". It refers to weeding and leveling the graves of ancestors and paying homage to their ancestors. Everyone wants to win the "jackpot" of "cultivating Taigong Qing", even if they are the descendants of a Taigong. Whoever is the first to "cultivate Taigong Qing" will get the blessing of Taigong Ancestor first and be blessed for a year's work. Life is off to a good start.

Qingyuan

Ai Ci

In Qingyuan, moxa glutinous rice is an essential food during the Qingming Festival. The small light green dumplings turn into dark green after being steamed. The freshly steamed mugwort is soft, glutinous and sweet, with a slightly sticky texture. The fragrance of mugwort is rich and lingers on your lips and teeth after you bite it.

Steaming mugwort cakes is also very particular. In rural areas, a traditional large pot is used to steam mugwort cakes. The mugwort cakes steamed with firewood will have a unique fragrance.

Mash peanuts, sesame seeds, and white sugar together and mix them together to make the filling, which is particularly sweet.

In addition to moxa glutinous rice glutinous rice dumplings, there are also yellow glutinous rice glutinous rice dumplings, which are also filled with bamboo shoots, mushrooms, lean meat and other fillings, which taste rich in taste.

Chaoshan

Pu Zi Kueh

Every time around the Qingming Festival, the rice cake shops in Chaoshan will put on the shelves a touch of green, that is, Pu Zi Kueh.

There is a food proverb in Chaoshan: "Eat leaves during the Qingming Festival." This leaf refers to the Pu Zi Kueh made from Pu Zi leaves. For Chaoshan people, it’s spring only after eating it.

It is also simple to make. Mash the leaves and fruits into juice, grind it with rice into powder, then add sugar, baking powder and cold water, mix it into a slurry, and then steam it.

The freshly baked Puzi Cake is smoking, exuding the fragrance of green grass, cracked in the middle, like a grinning person, and tastes sweet, making people miss it every year during the Qingming Festival.

Shanwei

Pancakes

Every morning on the Qingming Festival, Shanwei people go up to the mountains to worship their ancestors. After returning home, people in Shanwei will eat pancakes for lunch.

Pancakes can be sweet or salty, and the fillings can be varied. Salty pancakes are filled with bean sprouts, onions, broccoli, garlic, scallions, etc., and then stir-fried with shrimp, dried squid, eggs and other natural ingredients over high heat.

If you want to make it sweet, you can use white grain, red grain, or red grain, sesame, sesame, bean paste, tribute sugar, jam, etc. as the filling

Huizhou , Heyuan, Dongguan

Ai Cong

During the Qingming Festival, locals also like to pick moxa to make pong.

The salty version is stuffed with radish, bacon, mushrooms, and dried shrimps and wrapped into dumplings; the sweet version is stuffed with black sesame seeds, peanuts, and white sugar, shaped into a printing plate, and steamed in water for about 15 minutes before eating.

Jiangmen

Chicken Shit Vine

In Jiangmen, Xinhui, and Heshan areas, the must-have snack for the Qingming Festival is "Chicken Shit Vine Cake."

Don’t think wrongly, chicken vine, also called chicken vine, is a thick plant.

After the chicken shit vine leaves are crushed, there will be a smell of chicken shit, but after a long smell, there is a refreshing fragrance.

The steamed chicken excrement rattan cake is smoky and smooth, with a special fragrance.

Zhanjiang

Eat moxa cakes and fat cakes

Eating moxa cakes before and after Qingming will keep you from getting sick all year round. This is a folk slang in Zhanjiang. Every Qingming Festival, making moxa cakes has become a traditional custom for Zhanjiang people.

There is also Zhanjiang Fa Gao, which is generally available in white and earthy yellow. After fermentation and steaming, the finished product has pores as fine as needles, smells fresh and tangy, is sweet but not greasy, and waxy but not sticky. It is also an indispensable food in Zhanjiang’s ancestor worship culture.

Guangzhou

Eating Buckwheat

Guangzhou people do not eat mugwort. After the sacrifice, the family will take the allocated pork home and serve it with Stir-fry "Qingming buckwheat", a vegetable from the Qingming season, which is simple and heartwarming.