Introduction of Qingming Festival Food

The food of Qingming Festival includes: green dumplings, deep-fried noodle cakes, eggs, steamed buns and pancakes.

1. Green dumplings

The green dumplings are the most representative food of Qingming Festival, which are green and oily, glutinous and soft, not sweet and not greasy, with a light but long grass aroma, and even more fragrant and smooth in the mouth. The custom, which dates back more than 2,000 years, is to prepare a lot of pastries in advance to satisfy the hunger because fire is not allowed on the Cold Food Festival.

2, deep-fried noodle cakes

The deep-fried noodle cakes are a traditional custom of 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 in different shapes, either twisted or gridded, with bright yellow color and crispy taste, and the more they are chewed, the more they smell.

Beginning with the fire ban during the Cold Food Festival, many places at that time would prepare sprinkles so that they would have something to eat during the fire ban. The cost of sprinkles is relatively low, and they are easy to store, with a crunchy texture that is popular among the common people, and so they have been passed down to the present day.

3, eggs

To the time of the Qingming Festival, the family's old life will prepare some eggs, with a very auspicious symbolism, in the Qingming Festival to eat eggs, meaning that the new year can be healthy. Qingming eat eggs, known as eating "festival eggs", festival eggs are divided into two kinds, one is "painting eggs", the other is "carving eggs".

Painted colorful eggs can be eaten, while the "carved eggs" are only for fun. Cooked eggs, which are good for preservation and simple to prepare, are the first choice for people to spend the cold food festival.

4, Zi push bun

Shaanxi north Zi push bun, also known as the old bun, face flower, also known as steamed bun. With the fermentation of bad flour, flour flower is a small bun, the shape of the swallow, insects, snakes, rabbits and other small animals, ink and paper and other items, all have their own symbolism.

The round "Zi Pui Bun" is reserved for men. Married women eat the bar-shaped "pike bun" and unmarried girls eat the "bun bun". The children are served with Yan, Snake, Rabbit, Tiger and so on. The "big tiger" is exclusively for boys to eat, and is also the most popular among them.

5, pancakes

Xiamen folk proverb "Qingming to eat pancakes", meaning that the Qingming Festival family after sweeping the tomb to get together to wrap pancakes to eat. Today, most places in southern Fujian still retain this custom. At least a dozen ingredients are needed to make the "pancake dish", and most of them are seasonal vegetables. The pancakes are also eaten as they are wrapped.

Which is wrapped in a variety of vegetables, predicted that will make the agricultural seedlings flourish, six animals thrive, some regions also believe that eating a wrap rolled celery, leek pancakes, will make people more diligent (celery) labor, life is more long (leek), the family business is more prosperous.