What is the custom of eating in Jiangnan area during Qingming Festival?

Eating green dumplings.

According to evidence, the name of the green dumplings began in the Tang Dynasty has been more than 1,000 years of history, every Qingming almost always have to steam green dumplings, ancient people do green dumplings are mainly used for sacrifice, although the green dumplings have been passed down for thousands of years, the appearance has not changed, but now it is as a sacrificial offering of the function of the increasingly faded, but into a seasonal snacks are very strong.

Nowadays, some of the green dumplings are made of wheatgrass, some of them are made of green wormwood juice, and some of them are made of green leafy vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour pounded together and then filled with bean paste. The function of the green dumplings as a ritual is fading, and they are more often used as springtime snacks.

Expanded:

Because the cold food custom of the Cold Food Festival was transplanted to the Qingming Festival, some places in the northern part of China still retain the custom of eating cold food on the Qingming Festival. In Shandong, Jimo eat eggs and cold biscuits, Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, Changdao eat eggs and cold sorghum rice, it is said that if you do not, you will be hail. Tai'an eat cold pancakes rolled raw bitter vegetables, said to eat the eyes bright. The area around Jinzhong still retains the custom of banning fires the day before Qingming.

In many places, sacrificial food is divided and eaten after the completion of the ritual. When people in south Jin celebrate Qingming, it is customary to steam big buns with white flour, with walnuts, jujubes and beans in the center. Records about the folk custom of cold food appeared almost suddenly in the literature of the Eastern Han Dynasty, mainly concentrated in the Shanxi region. Even in the Tang and Song dynasties, when the cold food custom was quite popular, its spread was not out of the north.

In the overseas Chinese townships of southern Fujian, some cakes, kuey teow and rice palms must be made for family members to eat before and after the Ching Ming Festival. Shanghai's old custom, with wicker will be sacrificed with the steam cake dough through up, dry and stored, to the day of summer, will be fried, to children eat, said to eat after not Resistance to summer disease. In Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, Qingming Festival family wrapped zongzi, can be used for the grave offerings, can also be done to bring dry food trekking.