Can you eat hot pot on Ching Ming Festival

The Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it has its own unique food customs. Many places choose to eat green dumplings on Qingming Festival, especially in the southern region. Green dumplings are made by mixing some grass juice and glutinous rice flour, and then adding meat filling or brown sugar into the green dumplings according to your own taste and steaming them to be eaten. Well, besides green dumplings, you can also eat dumplings and so on on Qingming Festival.

Ching Ming Festival, the south of the Yangtze River with the custom of eating green dumplings; China's north and south of the Qingming Festival have eaten deep-fried noodle cake custom; Chengdu, Sichuan, the area of fried rice as a group, with the line through the, or big or small, each color dotted, named "happy group"; Zhejiang, south of the families around the house are to do a kind of food called Qingming fruit, that is used to pay homage to ancestors when sweeping the grave. used to pay tribute to the ancestors; the north will eat jujube cake. One year, during the Qingming Festival, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom general Li Xiu Cheng was being pursued by the Qing soldiers, a farmer plowing nearby came forward to help, disguised Li Xiu Cheng as a farmer and ploughed the land together with himself. When the Qing soldiers failed to capture Li Xiu-sheng, they did not let up, so they set up additional guards in the village, and every person leaving the village was inspected to prevent them from bringing Li Xiu-sheng food. Cultivation of farmers back home, thinking hard to bring what to eat to Li Xiu Cheng, a foot on a clump of mugwort, slipped and fell, climbed up only to see the hands, knees are stained with the color of green. At once on the mind, hastily picked some of the mugwort home to wash and boil squeeze juice, kneaded into the glutinous rice flour, made a rice ball. And then put the green dumplings in the grass, mixed with the sentries at the village entrance.

Li Xiu Cheng ate the green dumplings and found them fragrant and glutinous and not sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing sentries and returned safely to his base camp. Later, Li ordered the Taiping army to learn how to make green dumplings to protect themselves from the enemy. The custom of eating green dumplings was then spread.