What are the delicacies of Qingming Festival

The delicacies of Qingming Festival include green dumplings, deep-fried noodle cakes, eggs, steamed buns and pancakes.

1, green dumplings

The green dumplings are the most representative food of Qingming Festival, which are green and oily, glutinous and soft, not sweet and not greasy, with a light but long grass aroma, which is even more fragrant and smooth in the mouth. The custom, which dates back more than 2,000 years, is that people prepare a lot of pastries in advance to satisfy their hunger because they can't make a fire on the Cold Food Festival.

2. Deep-fried noodle cakes

The deep-fried noodle cakes are a kind of traditional custom of Qingming Festival. Deep-fried noodle cake is a kind of deep-fried noodle food, which is made of rice flour rolled into thin strips and deep-fried. They are in different shapes, either twisted or gridded, with yellow color, crispy and fragrant, and the more they are chewed, the more fragrant they are.

3, eggs

To the Qingming Festival, the family old lifetime people will prepare some eggs, has a very auspicious meaning, eat eggs in the Qingming Festival, meaning that the new year can be healthy, the family will not be sick. Qingming eat eggs, known as eating "festival eggs", festival eggs are divided into two kinds, one is "painting eggs", the other is "carving eggs".

4, Zi Push Bun

Shaanxi Zi Push Bun, also known as the old bun, face flower, also known as steamed bun. With the fermentation of bad flour, face flower is a small bun, the shape of the swallow, insects, snakes, rabbits and other small animals, ink and paper and other items, all have their own symbolism. The round "Zi Pui Bun" is reserved for men. Married women eat the bar-shaped "pike bun" and unmarried girls eat "bun bun". The children are served with Yan, Snake, Rabbit, Tiger and so on. The "big tiger" is exclusively for boys to eat, and is also the most popular among them.

5, pancakes

Xiamen folk proverb "Qingming to eat pancakes", meaning that the Qingming Festival family after sweeping the grave to get together to wrap pancakes to eat. Today, most places in southern Fujian still retain this custom. At least a dozen ingredients are needed to make the "pancake dish", and most of them are seasonal vegetables. The food is also made to be eaten on the spot.