What to Eat on Cold Food Festival

Cold food porridge, green dumplings, deep-fried noodle cake, Qingming fruit, and green refined rice are eaten on the Cold Food Festival.

1, cold food congee

During the Cold Food Festival, people are not allowed to move fireworks, and need to prepare wheat porridge and other cold food to commemorate the occasion. It represents people's love of spring and their love of health.

2, green dumplings

Cold Food Festival is a traditional Han Chinese festival food, while the green dumplings is a traditional snack around the southern region. Green dumplings are made of green cake with grass-head juice, soft and tasty, with the aroma of mugwort leaves. It is jasper in color, glutinous and soft, sweet but not greasy, fat but not fat, with a light but long grass aroma.

3, deep-fried noodle cakes

There are many kinds of food eaten on the cold food festival, among which deep-fried noodle cakes are a kind of deep-fried noodle food, which is called "cold utensils" in ancient times. Nowadays, deep-fried noodle cakes in the south are mostly made of rice flour, while those in the north are made of wheat flour. Nowadays, deep-fried noodle cakes are mostly made of rice flour in the south, and wheat flour in the north. Deep-fried noodle cakes are not only eaten in the cold food festival, but also found in the normal homes.

4, Ching Ming Fruit

Ching Ming Fruit is one of the traditional foods of Cold Food Festival, which is simple to make and has a unique flavor. The outer skin is made of sage or mugwort, and the filling includes chives, eggs and dried tofu. The name Qingming Guo derives from its shape, which symbolizes paying homage to the ancestors.

5, Qing Jing Rice

One of the traditional foods of the Cold Food Festival is Qing Jing Rice, also called Wu Rice and Wu Nim Rice. It is cooked with glutinous rice dyed with the juice of the Wu-Ri tree method, and is green in color. Every year on the third day of the third month, every She ethnic family cooks "Wu Nim rice" and gives it to their Han relatives and friends.