Traditional food in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The traditional foods in Tomb-Sweeping Day are green balls, prickly heat, jujube cakes, zongzi and eggs. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, which originated from ancient ancestor belief and spring worship custom.

What are the traditional foods in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people in southern China liked to eat Tomb-Sweeping Day dumplings. It is made by mashing wheat straw, squeezing out juice, mixing it with glutinous rice flour and wrapping it with bean paste. It is very nutritious.

Zongzi is a fried food, mainly made of rice or flour. It tastes crisp and delicious, and both north and south have the custom of eating zongzi.

Jujube cakes are eaten in northern Tomb-Sweeping Day. Jujube cakes are mainly used for steaming dough, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and nourishing the liver.

Zongzi, although everyone knows to eat Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day has the habit of eating Zongzi in some places. Usually, they began to eat zongzi the day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Eggs, eating eggs on sunny days, is called "saving eggs". There are two kinds of eggs, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted eggs can be eaten, while "carving eggs" is just for enjoyment.

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called an outing festival, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. It is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Qingming was just the name of a solar term at first, and later became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival. Jin Wengong designated the second day of the Cold Food Festival as Tomb-Sweeping Day. In most parts of Shanxi, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day in Yushe County and other places celebrated the Cold Food Festival two days ago; Yuanqu County also pays attention to Tomb-Sweeping Day's Cold Food Festival the day before, and the light cold food the day before.