What to eat at Qingming Festival Qingming Festival traditional food and customs

As the saying goes, "Food is the God of the people", traditional festivals are often accompanied by traditional food, and there are different seasonal foods in different parts of the world. So what are the traditional foods to eat and what are the traditional customs for the Qingming Festival? Today, I share with you 3 traditional Qingming foods and 3 traditional customs, wishing you all a year of happiness, well-being and good luck.

Traditional food for Qingming Festival

1, green dumplings

Eating green dumplings for Qingming Festival is mainly a local custom popularized in the south of the Yangtze River. But now, basically, this custom has been popularized throughout the country, and people will start to make green dumplings for the Qingming Festival. The green dumplings are green and oily, glutinous and soft, not too sweet and not too greasy, with a light but long grassy aroma, which makes the dumplings even more fragrant and smooth in the mouth. There is also a legend about eating green dumplings at Qingming Festival, that is, the Qing soldiers started to search for Chen Taiping, the general of Li Xiu Cheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, in order to catch him. To help Chen Taiping, local farmers made fragrant and sticky green dumplings with mugwort and glutinous rice flour, and Chen Taiping ate the green dumplings and fled back to his base camp. Later, Li Xiu Cheng ordered the Taiping army to learn how to make green dumplings, and the custom of eating green dumplings at Qingming Festival was spread.

2. Deep-fried noodle cakes (sǎn)

It is a traditional custom to eat deep-fried noodle cakes on Qingming Festival. Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried noodle food, which is made of rice flour rolled into thin strips and deep-fried. They are made of rice flour and rolled into thin strips by deep-frying. They are in different shapes, such as twisted or gridded, with yellow color, crispy and more fragrant when eaten. Started in the Qingming Festival ban on fire, that time many places will prepare sprinkles, so that there is something to eat when the fire is banned, the cost of sprinkles is relatively low, and easy to save, the texture of the crispy and crunchy, very popular among the people, so it has been passed down to the present.

3, eggs

To the Qingming Festival, the family old lifetime people will prepare some eggs, has a very auspicious meaning, in the Qingming Festival to eat eggs, meaning that the new year can be healthy, the family will not be sick.

Eating eggs on Qingming Day is called eating "festival eggs", and there are two kinds of festival eggs, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted colorful eggs can be eaten, while the "carved eggs" is only for fun. Cooked eggs, good at preserving, simple to match, can be filled with hunger, is the first choice for people to spend the Qingming Festival!

Traditional customs of the Qingming Festival

1, sweeping the tomb

Chinese history, cold food ban on fire, pay tribute to ancestors, Qingming Festival sweeping the tomb of the ancestors into the customs and traditions that have lasted since then. That is, in today's society, people around the Qingming Festival still have the custom of sweeping the graves to pay tribute to their ancestors: shoveling weeds, putting offerings, praying in front of the graves, burning paper money, gold ingots, or simply offer a bunch of flowers, in order to send a remembrance of the ancestors.

2, trekking

Ching Ming season, spring back to the earth, the natural world everywhere present a vibrant scene, it is a great time for excursions. China's folk have long maintained the habit of Qingming trekking. Legend has it that the activity of trekking at Qingming took place a long time ago. Qingming trekking is inherent in the significance of conforming to the seasonal season, spring March, the beginning of the beginning of life, everything is budding, people out of the house door, to the field, proactively cater to the time to promote the flow of yang qi in their own bodies, which is beneficial to the health of the body.

3, willow

Ching Ming Festival is the time of willow sprouting green, folk have folded willow, willow, willow custom. When people step on the green hand folded a few branches of willow, can be held in the hands to play, can also be woven into a hat to wear on the head, can also be taken home to insert in the lintel, eaves. The custom of inserting willow is related to avoiding epidemics. Tang people believe that in the riverside rituals, head wearing willow branches can get rid of the harm of poisonous insects. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, when people returned from trekking, they often inserted willows in front of their homes to avoid pests and epidemics.

The above is what I know about the traditional food and customs of the Qingming Festival, what else do you know, guys?