What food is eaten in Jiangsu Qingming Festival

Jiangsu Qingming Festival eat what food

The annual Qingming Festival is approaching, Jiangsu Qingming Festival eat what food? Here follow the vacation network I come to see it!

1. Qingming fruit

Jiangsu all over the country before the Qingming household grinding glutinous rice flour, picking Qingming grass or mugwort leaves to do Qingming fruit. Ai leaves we have seen, Qingming grass is commonly known as Mian Cai, rice dishes, Buddha's ear grass, sagebrush, in the Qingming season sprouted a sheer white hairy fine leaves. People pick the tops of the leaves, wash and mash them and use them to make glutinous rice flour. When the white rice flour meets the green juice of mugwort leaves or sheep's lettuce, it suddenly becomes green and tender. Stuffed with dried tofu and chives, or with smoked fat intestines mixed with minced mustard. There are wrapped into a ball, there are made into a round cake, there are also wrapped into a dumpling-like but more delicate, the wrinkled lace one by one turquoise, beautiful.

2. Eat eggs

Qingming Festival to eat eggs, as the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings, Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes as important. Folk custom that Qingming Festival to eat an egg, a whole year have a good body. According to relevant experts, the custom of eating eggs at Qingming has a history of thousands of years.

According to experts, eating eggs, is derived from the ancient festival of sacrifice. People seeking children for marriage, will be a variety of poultry eggs such as eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs, etc. Cooked and coated with a variety of colors, said the colorful eggs, they came to the river colorful eggs thrown into the river, rushing downstream, such as in the lower reaches of the people fighting for fishing, peeling and eating, eating can be conceived. Now the Qingming Festival to eat eggs to symbolize the fullness of the circle. In some areas of the countryside, there is also the custom of crashing eggs between children. If you want to explore the symbolism of the Qingming Festival to eat eggs, crash eggs, which should also be sent to the people for life, fertility of the fear and faith.

3. Eat green dumplings

Legend has it that the hundred and five smoke-free kitchens, red lotus root and green dumplings are sacrificed to the first, the poem "Wu Men Bamboo Poetry" said that people eat cold food green dumplings on the Qingming Festival, and red lotus root, green dumplings to worship the ancestors. Qingming Festival, the south of the Yangtze River has the custom of eating green dumplings. Green dumplings, also known as ai dough, is a kind of green cake made of grass juice, some of which is the use of green ai, and some to bird wheat grass juice and glutinous rice together with the pounding, so that the green juice and rice flour fused with each other, the dough billet made, and then wrapped with bean paste, jujube paste and other fillings, with a reed leaf bottom, they will be into the cage to steam. Steamed out of the cage, when the brush will be cooked vegetable oil evenly brushed on the surface of the dumplings, so the green dumplings green green, glutinous tough soft, sweet and delicate, fragrant and refreshing, from the color to the taste have the smell of spring, is the Qingming Festival and cold food festival when the people of Jiangnan used to pay tribute to the ancestors of the necessary food.

According to evidence, the name of the green dumplings began in the Tang Dynasty, and now every Qingming, almost every family in Jiangnan steamed green dumplings, although the green dumplings have been handed down for thousands of years in the same form, but now people are more in order to taste the new, the green dumplings as a function of the ritual is increasingly diluted.

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Nanjing four Qingming food

Spring to Qingming must be trekking, Qingming Festival is also a lot of seasonal food on the market. Yesterday, Nanjing folklore scholar Cai Bowen told reporters, Qingming Festival trekking, picnic history, since ancient times. Ancient Qingming Festival is a? Food Festival? Not only is there a lot of seasonal food on the market in this season of spring, but also the Qingming Festival and the ancient? The custom of Ching Ming Festival and the ancient Cold Food Festival are gradually overlapping today. The customs of the festival are gradually overlapping today, and some of the specialties of the cold food festival have been passed down.

The ancient women of ? eat Qingming?

Cai Bowen told reporters that Qingming food has been around since ancient times. Ancient people to adapt to the cold food ban on fire and cold food needs to create some food. For example, with wheatgrass pounding juice and glutinous rice to do green powder dough, sebiferum juice dye Wu rice cake, or with toon buds mixed gluten, tender willow leaves mixed with tofu for cold food. The Qingming Festival was a sacrificial festival in ancient times, and the average family had to honor their ancestors with four plates and six bowls of delicacies and clear wine. After the sacrifice, family members and invited relatives *** enjoy wine and food, called ? Eat Qingming? In ancient times in the south of the Yangtze River, people have to pick chestnuts to make wontons for the festival, Qingming tomb sweeping to do yellow flowers and green fruit cake as offerings, using a kind of chrysanthemum family weeds young leaves pounded to juice and powder made of very tasty. Moreover, the tradition of Qingming food also comes from the ancient Qingming trekking after . Picnic.

Especially in ancient times, women usually can not go out, and the day of the Qingming Festival ancestor worship, trekking is a good time for women to go out in ancient times, they will be well dressed on this day, go out early to pay homage to their ancestors, and then they trekked on the green, so in ancient times, the Qingming Festival is also a festival of the women, they can go out into the countryside to enjoy the spring color, flying kites, and then a picnic.

The custom of eating green dumplings has been around for more than 2,000 years

The most familiar Qingming food in Nanjing is the green dumplings. Cai Bowen said the Jiangnan? The wheat pulp grass? The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing, and that you have a good understanding of what you are doing, and that you have a good understanding of what you are doing, and that you have a good understanding of what you are doing, and that you have a good understanding of what you are doing. Every Qingming, the people of Jiangnan must go to the field to pull a handful of? Wheatgrass? , home mashed and pressed juice, and dry water milled pure glutinous rice flour mixed and good, wrapped in bean paste filling, folk know-how, but also into a small piece of lard, the group into the cage steamed, out of the cage and then a thin layer of cooked vegetable oil brushed on the surface. In addition, mugwort is also a common ingredient for Qingming. After steaming the glutinous rice mixed with mugwort leaves and pounded into rice paste, wrapped in the middle of some peanuts or sesame seed filling, and balled up into a small green poop into the pot steamed, which became the mugwort mochi.

? The food custom of eating green dumplings can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago.? He said that the traditional foods of the ancient cold food festival include glutinous rice cheese, wheat cheese, almond cheese Yang. Now, some of the green dumplings are made of green wormwood, some of them are made by pounding the juice of sparrow wheat grass and glutinous rice flour and then stuffed with bean paste. Now the function of green dumplings as a ritual is gradually fading out, while it is still popular as a gourmet food.

The temptation of mussels and snails

Cai Bowen told reporters that in Nanjing Qingming Festival, there is a delicious food is mussels and tofu soup. Nanjing people call mussels ? Crooked? To choose a not too small, red shell, six or so enough for a family of three to eat. Wash the mussels repeatedly in hot water, sprinkle them with a little salt, and then wash them again a few moments later. Knock the hard edges loose with the back of a knife so that the boiled meat will not get old. Finally, put the ? Crooked? Cut crosswise into one centimeter wide strips, burst fire will be ginger, green onion, salted meat or ham meat, tofu,? Crooked? Under the pot, simmered into a thick soup, the flavor is exceptionally delicious, some can also be put inside the broad bean petals, or fresh bamboo shoots, rice plant, soup and meat fresh, eat the March not forget. But it is cold, can not eat more, people with a bad stomach, especially beware. Nanjing at this time another river food is fried snail. Fried snail, is a Nanjing flavor of river food dishes. Made of snails and chili peppers and a variety of seasonings, the flavor of fresh and spicy very addictive. Fried snail a big plate of fried, eat with their mouth shirts, but also directly with the snail meat fried vegetables to eat, such as leek fried snail, are the most fashionable dishes at the time of the Qingming Festival.

The whole city together digging wild vegetables

Qingming Festival a variety of tender wild vegetables have become the Nanjing people table food. Stir-fried artemisia or artemisia stir-fried dried, plus a little bit of sharp chili pepper stir-fried together, is simply a dish on the tip of the heart of the Nanjing people. This season is also the best time to eat Malantou. The "Ballad of Western Wu Food Style" says: "In February, the swallows fly in the spring breeze. February spring breeze swallows fly, bamboo shoots absolutely tender mussel meat fat. Wolfberry, Malan taste good, egg spread tofu skin Qingming eating wild vegetables is more fun to pick, every year during the Qingming Festival, Nanjing, many people spontaneously formed? Folk wild vegetables group? In the city to launch a wild vegetable search, trekking season with a small shovel small basket to dig wild vegetables, in pursuit of childhood golden memories, Mochou Lake, Xuanwu Lake, Meihuashan, the North Pole Pavilion, Jiangning, Baguazhou, etc., there are people trekking excursions, the side of the digging of wild vegetables, marjoram, hen's head, pea head, goji berry head, pinch off the small shoots, go home to the pot and stir-fried, aroma, green and healthy. And Nanjing has spring hair? Eight wild? said, refers to? Drought eight fresh? and? Water eight fresh? Two categories, including water chestnut, artemisia, marjoram, wolfberry head, alfalfa head, amaranth, goose intestines and toon head and so on. Qingming eating wild vegetables has become a feature of Nanjing.