What traditional food does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat?

Tomb-Sweeping Day eats green dumplings, jiaozi, eggs, steamed buns, pancakes, steamed mushrooms and so on. Reunion dinner is a special food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Every year when Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming, every family will come to eat. This dietary custom can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than 2000 years ago.

Green as jade, soft and glutinous, and green glutinous rice balls are sweet but not greasy, which is a necessary food for people in the south of the Yangtze River to sacrifice their ancestors during Qingming and Cold Food Festival. It is not only delicious, but also beneficial to people's health, and also implies people's good expectations for life, hoping that their families can be happy and healthy and live a long life.

working methods

Boil water with green plants such as wormwood, Bromus inermis or grass for about 5 minutes, then grind the juice, then mix it with glutinous rice flour while it is hot, and knead it into turquoise dough. The stuffing of green balls can be sweet stuffing of red dates and bean paste, or salty stuffing such as meat floss and egg yolk. Wrap the stuffing, knead it into a circle and steam it in a steamer. Taking a bite of spring in the right season is really fragrant.