What are the dietary customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Today is the last day of March 2020. March is coming to an end, April is coming, and Tomb-Sweeping Day in early April is coming. Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only one of the four traditional festivals in China, but also one of the 24 solar terms. The main customs and activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day are grave-sweeping, ancestor worship and outing. So, what are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao!

What does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat?

Tomb-Sweeping Day's folk food mainly includes Qing Tuan, Zanzi, eggs, steamed buns, pancakes, Zifu, mustard rice, Artemisia, Puzi _, Ai _, Wuren rice, steamed buns with warm mushrooms and so on. The food in Tomb-Sweeping Day is mainly related to glutinous rice and wormwood.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. , a traditional festival in China, is also one of the 24 solar terms. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

In the south of China, Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of having a reunion dinner. Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is made by mixing the juice of wormwood with glutinous rice flour, then wrapping it with bean paste and lotus paste stuffing and steaming.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the "cooler" eaten at the Cold Food Festival was called prickly heat. Scorpion, also known as food container and cooler, is a kind of fried food, which is made by rubbing strips on oil surface.

The so-called purple-legged steamed stuffed bun, also called old steamed stuffed bun, is a traditional food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. A steamed bread weighs about a catty and is carefully kneaded with tools such as combs, scissors, awls and tweezers, as well as red beans, black beans, pepper seeds and food pigments.

Pancake is a famous specialty of Chaozhou, Hailufeng, Fuzhou and Minnan. Pancakes used to be a holiday food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. People would bake pancakes for lunch after sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.