What special foods did the ancients eat at the Cold Food Festival?

Introduction: Speaking of eating at the Cold Food Festival, you may soon think of the Communist Youth League. Group meals belong to the Cold Food Festival and also to Tomb-Sweeping Day. People have a family reunion dinner on this day, which makes the festive atmosphere more intense. We are eating green balls now, so what food did the ancients eat at the Cold Food Festival? If you want to know what the ancients ate at the Cold Food Festival, and what special foods are there at the Cold Food Festival, then take a look at my introduction.

What did the ancients eat at 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, mix various 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.

Cold food festival is a good time to clean up the stomach. Generally speaking, the first thing for bears in the wild after hibernation is to find some grass to eat in spring. Because grass is rich in cellulose, it is easy to have diarrhea when eaten. The bear cleaned up the waste accumulated in his stomach for a winter before eating. For example, cold rice noodles, a lot of vinegar, and a lot of bean sprouts and shredded cucumber are rich in cellulose, which is most suitable for cleaning the stomach.

Special food of 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. Runbing dish: also known as Runbing dish and Nenbing dish, it is a kind of spring rolls, which originated in Quanzhou and later became popular in Taiwan Province Province and Fujian Province. Every time in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Quanzhou people have the custom of eating "cake-moistening dishes". It is said that this is the legacy of the ancient Cold Food Festival.

4. Green rice: Also known as black rice, black rice and black rice, the color of glutinous rice cooked with the juice of black rice tree is Qing Wu, which is one of the foods of the Cold Food Festival. On the third day of March every year, every household of the She nationality cooks "black rice" and presents it to relatives and friends of the Han nationality. Over time, the local Han people also have the custom of eating "black rice" in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

5. 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.

6. Huan: that is, modern caramel, which is a special food of ancient cold food festival. There is no cold food overseas, there is no cold food in spring, there is no cold food in cities, Xiao Sheng blows warm and sells cold weather, porridge and fragrant white apricot flowers ... It is not difficult to see from many cold food poems that mention cold food that there must be cold food in ancient times, but there is no cold food.

7. Snake rabbit: a kind of cake, which is a necessary food for Qingming cold food with a history of 2,500 years in Shanxi. The snake rabbit kneaded flour into the shape of a snake rabbit. The snake represents the mother who pushes away, and the rabbit represents herself. 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".

8. Xunzi: a kind of fried pasta, called "cooler" in ancient times, is a cold food festival food. Zongzi has existed since ancient times, and now it is different between the north and the south: the northern Zongzi is mainly wheat flour, generous and free; The southern prickly heat is mainly rice flour, which is exquisite and meticulous.

9. Qingming snail: Qingming snail is a snail, a snail. Before Qingming Festival, it is the best season to eat snails. At this time, the snails are fat, and there is a saying that "Qingming snails are as fat as geese" and "Qingming snails top geese".