What is suitable for Tomb-Sweeping Day?

One of the oldest traditional festivals in China, Tomb-Sweeping Day! But what does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat? What will Tomb-Sweeping Day eat in different places? Do you know that?/You know what? Do you know that?/You know what?

Qingtuanzi

During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Jiangnan had the custom of eating green jiaozi. Green jiaozi is made by mashing a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" and squeezing out juice. Mix this juice with dry glutinous rice flour.

Wrap the stuffing, make it into jiaozi, steam it in a cage, and brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi with a brush when coming out of the cage, and you're done.

Aizan

"Pa" refers to all kinds of glutinous rice in Hakka dialect. It is a traditional snack with Qingming characteristics and belongs to Hakka cuisine. Is prepared from sticky rice flour, glutinous rice flour, wormwood, etc. Because of the addition of wormwood, it has certain medicinal and health care functions.

Warm mushroom bag

Warm mushroom bag is a traditional snack in Taining. The scientific name of the raw material of warm mushroom is Daqu grass, also called Fuer grass, and the local people call it warm mushroom grass. Every year on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the fields are covered with mousetraps, which is a good season for picking and making warm mushroom packages.

cruller

Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times. Northern prickly heat is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; The southern prickly heat is exquisitely made, mainly rice and flour.

Zituimo

"Zi Tuimo", also known as Lao Momo, is similar to the helmet of ancient military commanders and weighs about 250-500 grams. Eggs or red dates are wrapped inside and have a top on them. The top is covered with flowers. Hua Mian is a dough-shaped steamed stuffed bun with the shape of swallow, worm, snake, rabbit or Four Treasures of the Study.

pancake

There is a saying in Xiamen called "Eating Pancakes on Qingming Festival", which means that Tomb-Sweeping Day's family will get together to make pancakes after sweeping the grave. Today, most parts of southern Fujian still retain such customs and habits.

Onions and omelets

Many families in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Qingdao eat green onions and egg rolls, which means cleverness. This custom has continued to this day.

Puziguo

Shop pot is an indispensable traditional pastry in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is well known at home and abroad. At the same time, Tomb-Sweeping Day's cooking as a "shop pot" is also a traditional dietary custom of Chaoshan people, which fully shows the ethnic customs and dietary characteristics of Chaoshan hometown of overseas Chinese.

Mustard rice?

During the Qingming Festival, most places in eastern Fujian, both urban and rural, have the custom of eating pickled mustard tuber. It is said that eating mustard rice mixed with rice on February 2 every year can prevent scabies all year round.