What do you eat at Qingming Jiangnan custom?

1, fried dumplings

Ching Ming Festival day, Changzhou people will eat breakfast without filling glutinous rice dumplings. The dumplings are made before the Chinese New Year, soaked in cold water and eaten until the Dragon Boat Festival.

On the day of the Qingming Festival, the dumplings are taken out, cut into pieces and fried in oil in a pot, and sugar or salt is put in according to one's taste. Some people also put some willow leaves in it to add "green".

2, snail

The green dumplings themselves belong to the sweet food, people mostly used as breakfast or side dishes, while the snail is the Qingming table, "the main event". Because of the moderate climate and temperature during the Qingming season, the snails at this time are clean and fresh. In the Changshu area, people from time to time will invite two or three friends to go to the snail museum to get together, sucking the snail, talking about family life, a unique flavor.

Ching Ming season, is the best time to pick snails, because this time of year snails have not yet reproduced, the most plump, fat, so there is a "Qingming snail, against a goose" said. Snail eating method is quite a lot, can be fried with onion, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar; can also be boiled and picked out of the snail meat, can be mixed, can be drunk, can be bad, can be choked, all appropriate. If the food method is appropriate, it can be called "a flavor of snail thousand interesting, delicious wine are not as good as".

3, green and white dumplings

Ching Ming Festival, Wu has been eating "green and white dumplings" custom. In Wuxi Meicun and Hongshan area, the local people also specialize in fresh meat, bean paste, sesame as a filling, symbolizing the originator of the Wu Di - Tai Bo "three let the world" noble character.

Before the Qingming Festival, wheat grows vigorously, wheat leaves are not old and not tender, will be cut from the field of wheat leaves after washing, put in a stone mortar and pounded, into a paste, wrapped in a cloth, and squeezed, there is a green juice out of the green juice inside the appropriate lime water, the color will be more green and more tender.

When making dumplings and glutinous rice flour, pour some green juice into it, and kneaded into the rice flour into a green color, dumplings put into the stove on the big steamer a steamer, full of stove a wheat green fragrance. Steamed out of the cage, if you use a brush dipped in cooked oil on the surface of the dumplings evenly brush a brush, green dumplings will be as green as jade, more people like.

4.deep-fried noodle cakes

The old Nanjing people ate deep-fried noodle cakes, which are made of oil and wheat flour. Deep-fried deep-fried noodle cakes are made of oil and wheat flour kneaded and pulled into thin strips, coiled around and deep-fried. In springtime, when you go trekking, you can take deep-fried noodle cake with you and eat it while you are traveling, or add sugar to it and drink it with boiled water, which has its own flavor.

The deep-fried noodle cakes now popular in the Han area have the difference between the north and the south: the northern deep-fried noodle cakes are generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; the southern deep-fried noodle cakes are delicate and detailed, with rice flour as the main material. In the minority areas, there are many varieties of deep-fried noodle cakes with different flavors, especially the deep-fried cakes of Uygur, Dongxiang and Naxi, and the deep-fried cakes of Ningxia Hui are the most famous.

5、Tears of Qingming

"On Qingming Festival, make tears of Qingming and eat them ......" is a nursery rhyme that has been circulating in the countryside around Changshan and Kaihua in Quzhou. Especially Changshan County, Dongcheng Township, Jinyuan Village, every year, Qingming, "Qingming tears" is a family to commemorate the ancestors must be done in the cold, the custom has been passed down for more than 1,000 years.

In honor of our ancestor Wang Jie, the village people rolled the rice flour into a small round tears in the shape of a small tears, only in the Qingming Festival production and consumption. Qingming tears look like small dumplings, but their flavor is completely different. Do not add ai leaves, color white, such as pearl flawless; mixed into the ai leaves, color green, such as emerald deep, this small snack through a light fragrance, eat in the mouth fragrant slippery glutinous.