What to eat at the Cold Food Festival?

The traditional foods of the Cold Food Festival include cold porridge, black rice, prickly heat, green balls, clear fruits and so on.

1, cold porridge

Cold porridge is cold porridge, because in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, Jin Wengong, designated the day when he was burned to death as the Cold Food Festival to commemorate Jie tui's hero. On this day, people are not allowed to make a fire at home, so they all eat cold food. The porridge that gets cold this day is called cold porridge.

2. Black rice

Black rice, also known as "black rice", is a kind of rice made of glutinous rice. Taoism was originally used as sacrificial food on this day, and later spread to the people and became the festival food of the Cold Food Festival.

3. Xunzi

Xunzi, a kind of fried pasta, was originally a cold food. In ancient times, it was also called "cold food utensil", which was just eaten during the Cold Food Festival.

4. Communist Youth League

Qing Tuan is a kind of green cake dough, mostly sweet. People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will eat green balls in Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Cold Food Festival. The green ball is soft and waxy, with bright and special color, and it is a food that many people like very much.

5. Transparent fruit

Qingming fruit is a kind of food that Tomb-Sweeping Day ate before and after. Its shape and practice are similar to those in jiaozi, but its taste is completely different from that in jiaozi. The skin of Qingming fruit is made of shrew or wormwood, and the stuffing is leeks, eggs and dried tofu.