What traditional foods are there in the Cold Food Festival?

The traditional foods of the Cold Food Festival are: Qing Tuan, cold porridge, five-color glutinous rice, zongzi and Pu Guo Zi.

1, Youth League

Youth League is a traditional snack in southern China. The color of the green ball is like jasper, waxy and soft, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full, with a faint but long grass fragrance. Today's Youth League is not only a holiday food, but also a microcosm of many people's childhood memories and the sustenance of their hometown emotions.

2, cold porridge

During the Cold Food Festival, people prohibit smoking and need to prepare cold food such as highland barley porridge, which is a holiday diet handed down from the Cold Food Festival. There are many kinds of cold porridge, such as Huayang porridge, plum blossom porridge, apricot cheese, winter porridge, peach blossom porridge, dried porridge and barley porridge.

3, five-color glutinous rice

Five-color glutinous rice is a traditional snack in Buyi and Zhuang areas. Named for its five colors of black, red, yellow, white and purple, the Zhuang people like five-color glutinous rice very much and regard it as a symbol of good luck and good harvest.

Step 4 spread seeds

Zongzi is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate. Scorpions were called "coolers" in ancient times, but there are differences between the north and the south: the scorpions in the north are mainly wheat flour, which is generous and free and easy, while the scorpions in the south are mostly rice flour, which is exquisite and meticulous. In ethnic minority areas, there are many kinds of prickly heat with different flavors, especially in Uygur, Dongxiang, Naxi and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

5. Pu Guo Zi

Park seed cake, grass green and sweet. There are two kinds of common seeds: plum blossom type and peach blossom type. The steamed seeds are grass green and have the unique herbal fragrance of leaves. Steamed seeds are like blooming flowers.