What does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat and what does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat?

Food suitable for Tomb-Sweeping Day: green dumplings, prickly heat, eggs, steamed bread and pancakes.

1, Green jiaozi

Youth League is the most representative food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Green and oily, waxy and soft, not sweet or greasy, with a faint but long grass fragrance, which is more fragrant and slippery when eaten in the mouth. This custom can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago. Because there is no fire during the Cold Food Festival, people will prepare many cakes in advance to satisfy their hunger.

2. Xunzi

Eating prickly heat is a traditional custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Fried dumpling is a kind of fried pasta, with rice flour as the main ingredient, kneaded into thin strips and fried. Different shapes, or spiral, or grid-like, yellow and bright, crispy to eat, the more you chew, the more fragrant.

Step 3: eggs

When we arrive in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the old people at home will prepare some eggs, which is very auspicious. Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day means that people at home will be healthy in the new year and will not get sick. Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day is called "saving eggs". There are two kinds of eggs, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs".

Step 4 push steamed bread

Pushing steamed buns in northern Shaanxi is also called old steamed buns, noodles and steamed buns. Using fermented grains to make dough, the dough flower is a dough-like bun, with small animals such as swallows, insects, snakes and rabbits, as well as pens, ink, paper, inkstones and other items, each with its own meaning.

5.pancakes

There is a saying in Xiamen called "Eating Pancakes on Qingming Festival", which means that Tomb-Sweeping Day's family will get together to make pancakes after sweeping the grave. Today, most parts of southern Fujian still retain such customs and habits.