What does Nanchang Tomb-Sweeping Day eat for the holidays?

The ancient poem goes: "Spring City is full of flowers, and cold food is easterly and willows are oblique." Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the traditional festivals in China. Since it is a tradition, it must be a local diet. Different customs and habits in different regions are doomed to different eating customs. Let's take a look at the food customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The food "Qingming fruit" originated from the tradition of Cold Food Festival.

Like plowing cattle, Jiangxi people will never forget to have a big meal in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Although this day is full of thoughts about the dead, it is also a food festival.

"New County Records" records that "Spring cakes are popular, wheat is in the city, rice is in the countryside, and thin people are better." "Yushan County Records" says that "rice flour mixed with Armon makes fruit, which is called Tomb-Sweeping Day fruit." Nanchang people will eat pickled mustard tuber jiaozi in Tomb-Sweeping Day; Pingxiang locals make "Amy Guo", and there is a proverb "On March 3rd, local food is a panacea".

Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, most areas in Jiangxi used wormwood or wild vegetables to make food, which was called "tasting green". According to folklore experts, all kinds of zongzi made in Jiangxi originated from the tradition of cooking without fire during the Cold Food Festival. The custom of Cold Food Festival, which was formed to commemorate meson, has been basically integrated into Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Nanfeng, Fuzhou, in the old days, there was a family dinner where the whole family got together to eat and drink, which was called "Tomb-Sweeping Day". Therefore, Tomb-Sweeping Day is no different from a food festival for local people.

Eat tribute dough to make "fish" for ancestor worship.

Similar to tea sacrifice, it is the custom of making dough into "fish" to sacrifice ancestors in Ganxian County. The sacrifices made are called "teachers". Compared with the extravagance of big fish and big meat sacrifices in some places, Shigong is different because of his "vegetarian diet".

There are many kinds of food tributes made of dough, such as carp, chickens and ducks, which are lifelike in appearance and can be called works of art. According to Zhong Zhaofu, the inheritor of food tribute making skills, all the items as "food tributes" have a praise name. For example, the nickname of "chicken" is "Deloitte", which comes from the statement that "chicken has five virtues, so it is called Deloitte" in The Story of Kindergarten Learning. The nickname of "carp" is "golden scale", which comes from the saying of "carp yue longmen"; The nickname of "peach" is "fairy fruit", which symbolizes longevity; The praise name of pepper is "pungent" and so on. According to "Zhong's Family in Ganxian County", during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1736 ~ 1795), food tributes were used in local ancestor worship activities in Ganxian County. Scholars believe that the appearance of food tribute is the result of the integration of the custom of worshipping ancestors with pasta in the Central Plains culture and the local area, and the food shortage in the old society reflects the wisdom and virtue of ancestors' diligence and thrift.