What are the delicacies of Qingming?

Chinese food for Qingming: green dumplings, Hakka Aimee fruit, mustard rice, Qingming eggs, deep-fried noodle cake and so on.

I. Green Dumplings

There are also many kinds of green dumplings, most of which are round in shape, and wrapped with rich fillings, including sweet bean paste filling, red bean filling, salty egg yolk and meat floss, and a combination of flavors, such as diced snow pea and bamboo shoots, and dried plums and vegetables.

The Chinese have a long history of eating green dumplings, which have been eaten since the Tang Dynasty to commemorate deceased family members and to bring them together.

Second, the Hakka Aimee fruit

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai like to eat green dumplings, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and other Hakka areas people love to eat Aimee fruit, in fact, green dumplings and Aimee fruit of the main raw materials are based on the wormwood.

Pick the mugwort during the Qingming season and put it into a pot to boil, then mix the boiled mugwort and glutinous rice flour with sticky rice flour according to a specific ratio to make green rice balls.

The next step is similar to making dumplings. Put the prepared filling into the rice ball and wrap it into the shape of a dumpling.

The Hakka people like to eat fried Aimee fruit, put the wrapped Aimee fruit into the frying pan for deep-frying, after the frying pan Aimee fruit outside of the burnt inside, tender, salty and delicious, loved by the Hakka people. In addition to deep-frying, Ai Mi Guo can also be eaten by steaming, put it into the steamer, steam and then steam for about 10 minutes can be eaten.

Three, mustard rice

As the saying goes: "Ching Ming to eat mustard rice, a year of good health," many areas of the country in the Ching Ming Festival when the custom of eating mustard rice. Mustard rice practice is simple, the mustard clean, cut into segments, and then and rice together into the pot fried, you can also use the rice cooker will be mixed with these ingredients steamed, in the process of making, often will not join the pork and other meat dishes, are generally vegetarian dishes.

Four, Qingming eggs

The old saying: "Qingming eat eggs, the whole family is not well," the custom of eating eggs at the Qingming Festival is also a long time, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other southern areas, people not only eat eggs, will also be held, "Fighting eggs!

In the south of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other areas, people not only eat eggs, but also hold "fighting eggs" activities.

"Fighting eggs" as the name suggests is to let the eggs fight with each other to see which egg is the strongest, when I was a child over the Ching Ming Festival, early in the morning with parents boiled eggs to the school, and then take out the eggs and classmates "Fighting Eggs," to see who The winner is often able to get the envy of everyone.

Eggs symbolize new life and hope, but also the meaning of the delegation round the auspicious meaning of beauty, Qingming Festival to eat eggs, sent people for the reverence of life.

Five, deep-fried noodle cakes

The deep-fried noodle cakes are also one of the traditional food of Qingming Festival. In the ancient times, there was a cold food festival before the Qingming Festival, and on that day there was the rule of "forbidding fire", which meant that no fire could be made at home for cooking.

Then people would prepare various kinds of food in advance, and deep-fried noodle cake was one of them. This kind of food, made of flour or rice flour, tasted delicious after deep-frying, and was easy to carry and store.

Today, there are many regions that eat this traditional food during Qingming Festival, and deep-fried noodle cake is healthier and more delicious than those snacks in the supermarket.