Why do people in southern Fujian eat cakes on Ching Ming Festival?

A year of good scenery in the Qingming, perhaps most of us do not know how the people of southern Fujian Qingming, one of the most representative of the Qingming folklore is: to eat "Run cake".

In the southern Fujian people, the Qingming Festival, the family after sweeping the grave to get together to pack "Run cake" to eat. This has been a traditional custom of the southern Fujian people's heritage.

Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China, and is also a traditional Chinese folk festival. Qingming food "Run cake" which is related to the ancient cold food festival. Cold food, as the name suggests, is not fire cooking, eat cold food cakes, reflecting the folk beliefs of memorializing the dead. Spring festivals in China used to be held at the Cold Food Festival until it was changed to the Qingming Festival.

Quanzhou Minnan citizens Qingming rolled food Run cake to retain this ancient custom, is also rare in the country.

And now, "Run Cake" has evolved with the times, the production of fine, four seasons savory, and has become a traditional food, flavorful snacks around the southern Fujian area.". Run cake" is also known as "biscuits", "spring cake", "spring rolls".

"Run cake" skin to fry thin and tough, there must be a specialized technology. Nowadays, the average family is to buy ready-made, cake filling homemade, the family ate while wrapping, not a lot of fun. Street food stalls also specializing in the production of sales, buy the whole "Run cake" or buy "Run cake skin" are available.

Speaking of this "Rum Cake" skin, have to mention the West Street Yafo masters of Rum Cake skin store. Every year on the day of the Ching Ming Festival, the store has been lined up early in front of a long line, queuing up to buy "Run Cake" skin customers all stretched their necks, waiting for the Run Cake skin to come out of the oven, there is a saying: "to eat love while it is hot" (expressed in southern Fujian language). At this time, the store's chef is busy with the pan's moist cake crust.

Don't look at this thin piece of Rum Cake skin, the production process is very research, pay the master to make Rum Cake skin has more than 30 years of experience: this craft is ancestral, almost a hundred years or so. Starting from the age of 7 to now more than 40 years old, the production of the run cake skin needs a special flat iron pan, flour should be mixed moderately, not too dry and not too thin; and so the pan is hot, the hand pinch of the dough to the pan, a paste, a rub, and then quickly lifted up, sticking to the bottom of the pan immediately turned into a thin crust. Freshly baked moist pie crust is as thin and bright as white paper, appetizing.

"Run cake" symbolizes the significance of the public is also one of the reasons for the favorite." Run cake" in the bread with radish, bean sprouts, dried beans, and oyster omelette, what delicious things are wrapped. There's a lot to learn about all these things. The radish symbolizes gold, and the white bean sprouts are silver, so the cakes are both gold and silver. Taken to the ancestors, to show that the ancestors also expect his children and grandchildren have gold and silver, wealth rolling in, life is better than a year. And the outside of the cake must have a thin and shiny runic skin to wrap the inside of the trap, all the things are "inclusive" in the inside of the consciousness: generosity, generosity can tolerate, connotation, forgiveness, do not care.

Life is better than a year, eat "Run cake" custom remains, which is not only a legacy of our traditional customs, but also people over the Qingming a food culture