What snacks do you eat at the Cold Food Festival?

Eating candy in the Cold Food Festival, that is, modern caramel, is a special food in the ancient Cold Food Festival. "No cold food overseas, no cold food in spring", "No cold food in the city", "Xiao Sheng blows warm and sells the sky" and "porridge fragrant white apricot flowers" It is not difficult to see from many ancient cold food poems that mention the cold food festival that there must be cold food, but there is no cold food.

Snakeboard rabbit is a kind of cake, which is a necessary food for Qingming cold food with a history of 2500 years in Shanxi. A snake rabbit is shaped like a snake and a rabbit with flour. The snake represents the mother of meson tui, and the rabbit represents meson tui himself. Snakes and rabbits are intertwined to show filial piety. There is also a proverb handed down from generation to generation: "A rabbit with a snake dish will be rich".

Eight directions cold food refers to eight directions: east, west, south, north, southeast, southwest, northwest and northeast. "All directions cold food" means the coldest food, representing the snacks eaten by the highest-ranking court nobles. Does it sound like a tall feeling? In fact, it is just a common square cake in the south today.