In Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The festival time in Tomb-Sweeping Day is around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar, and there is no fixed lunar calendar time.

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, which originated from the ancestor belief of early human beings, is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals.

The second bucket (or solar calendar reaches 15) is Tomb-Sweeping Day gas, and the time of gas exchange in Tomb-Sweeping Day generally changes from April 4 to 6 in Gregorian calendar, which is not fixed on a certain day, but April 5 is the most common. Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship is very long, 8 days before Tomb-Sweeping Day 10, and 8 days before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day 10 (at the turn of the middle and late spring). These nearly 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day who worships his ancestors.

Seasonal food in Tomb-Sweeping Day

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, the most common seasonal food is Qingming jiaozi. Qingming Tangyuan is a small dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, which is filled with stuffing such as bean paste, jujube paste and sesame seeds, and covered with bamboo leaves. It is round and lovely in shape.

Besides Qingming dumplings, there are other seasonal foods. For example, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, people eat green balls. Qingtuan is a kind of small dumpling made of wormwood leaf juice and glutinous rice flour, which is filled with bean paste and sesame seeds, and has a soft and fragrant taste. In Guangdong, Fujian and other places, people will eat wormwood, which is a kind of cake made of wormwood leaf juice and glutinous rice flour, with stuffing such as bean paste and sesame seeds.

In addition to these traditional seasonal foods, modern people have created many new Tomb-Sweeping Day foods. For example, in some areas in the south, people will eat Qingming fruit. Qingming fruit is a jiaozi-shaped food, which is made of glutinous rice flour, vegetables, meat and other materials. It's delicious. In some northern areas, people will eat Qingming jiaozi, a kind of jiaozi made of flour, which is filled with vegetables and meat.