What traditional food to eat at Qingming

What traditional food to eat at Qingming

1, green dumplings. Jiangnan area has the custom of eating green dumplings. The green dumplings are made from the plant of pulpy wheatgrass to make the skin, and delicate sugar bean paste to make the heart, and then put into a pot to be steamed.

2. Ai (ban). There is an old saying among Hakka people that "if you eat Ai Wei before and after the Ching Ming Festival, you won't get sick all year round", and Ai Wei is an essential traditional snack for Hakka people during the Ching Ming Festival.

3, eggs. Folk customs believe that the Qingming Festival to eat an egg, a whole year have a good body. The pre-Qin era there is a ban on fire customs, multi-day ban on fire and cold food, hard-boiled eggs are the best food reserves during this period.

4, pancakes. Xiamen has a proverb "Qingming eat pancakes", meaning that the Qingming Festival family should get together to wrap pancakes to eat.

5, onion and egg cake. Qingming Festival, Qingdao, many people have to eat green onions and egg cakes, meaning smart and clever, this custom has been continued to this day.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc., is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the belief in ancestors and the rituals of spring festival in the ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival and a traditional festival. Sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors and going on excursions are the two main themes of the Qingming Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and continue to be practiced to this day.

The Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and enjoying the fun of spring. The Qingming Festival is celebrated on the Doji B (or when the sun's yellow meridian reaches 15°), and the time of the festival is around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar. This time of the year, angry and vigorous, the decline of yin, everything "spit out the old and new", the earth shows the image of spring and landscape, it is the countryside trekking and spring line Qing tomb festival of a good time. Qingming ancestor festival is very long, there are 10 days before 8 days after and 10 days before 10 days after the two say, this nearly 20 days are within the Qingming ancestor festival period.

The Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, in memory of ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, not only to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, but also to promote the cohesion of the family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity. Qingming Festival integration of natural festivals and human customs as a whole, is the unity of time, place and people, fully embodies the ancestors of the Chinese people in pursuit of "heaven, earth, people" harmony and unity, pay attention to conform to the time and place, follow the laws of nature.