What should I eat at the Cold Food Festival?

1, Qingming fruit: a kind of food made around Tomb-Sweeping Day. This kind of fruit looks like jiaozi, but it tastes very different. The skin is made of golden cypress or wormwood, and the stuffing is leeks, eggs and dried tofu.

2. Green ball: a green cake ball made of grass head juice, sweet and delicious, soft and delicious, with the aroma of wormwood leaves. Eating dumplings is mainly popular in festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is a traditional holiday food of the Han nationality.

3. Cold food porridge: During the Cold Food Festival, people are not allowed to move fireworks, and it is necessary to prepare cold food such as porridge to commemorate that this cold food porridge is a holiday diet handed down from the Cold Food Festival.

The folk custom of forbidding fire and cold food in Shanxi is mostly one day, and only a few places are used to forbidding fire for three days. People in southern Shanxi are used to eating bean jelly, cold noodles and cold cakes. In northern Shanxi, people are used to cooking (that is, steamed cake noodles or white noodles are cut into dice-sized squares, then dried and fried with earth) as food for the Cold Food Festival. In some mountainous areas, the whole family eats fried noodles on this day (that is, stir-fry whole grains and mix all kinds of dried fruits and grind them into noodles).

The Cold Food Festival is celebrated by steaming cold swallows. Flour is kneaded into swallows, songbirds, animals, melons and fruits, flowers, etc. The steamed swallows are colored, inserted into the needles of jujube trees, decorated indoors and given as gifts.