What to Eat on Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival eats green dumplings, deep-fried noodle cakes, snails, eggs, and Ai Wei.

1, eat green dumplings: Qingming will eat green dumplings, is to honor the ancestors, the meaning of reunion, used to be sacrificial food, now become a festival food. The green dumplings are made from the green juice squeezed out of mugwort, mixed with glutinous rice flour and kneaded, then wrapped with various fillings and made into green dumplings.

2. Eating deep-fried noodle cake: It is a custom to eat deep-fried noodle cake on Qingming Festival. Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of fried food, which is made of rice flour, rolled into thin strips and deep-fried, which is crispy and exquisite, and was called "cold utensils" in ancient times because it is easy to be preserved.

3, food snail: Qingming season is the best world of snail harvesting, this time of the snail has not yet reproduced, the most plump, fat, there is a "Qingming snail, against a goose" said.

4, eggs: Qingming Festival to eat eggs has a very auspicious meaning, meaning that the new year can be healthy, the family will not be sick. And hard-boiled eggs, good for preservation, is the ancient people through the cold food festival of choice.

5, Ai cognizance: there is a saying that "eat Ai cognizance before and after the Qingming Festival, do not get sick all year round", Ai cognizance is the traditional food of the Hakka people on the Qingming Festival, the main ingredient is glutinous rice and mugwort.