Eating Customs of Qingming Festival in Twenty-four Solar Terms Eating Customs in Different Places of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Eat green jiaozi to worship ancestors.

As the name implies, it is the blue jiaozi. Use wheat leaves, cabbage leaves, mugwort leaves and pumpkin leaves. Squeeze out the juice first, then add a little lime and water and stir well. Mix this water with the sprinkled rice flour and knead it into skin (the skin has turned green at this time), then wrap it with bean paste, roses, sesame seeds (mostly bean paste and lard) and steam it in a cage until it is cooked. Green dumplings are green and tough, and they are delicious when they are cold. They are the necessary food for Tomb-Sweeping Day to pay homage to his ancestors. There is a folk saying that "ancestors died and others ate green jiaozi", and there is also a legend related to Dayu's water control.

According to legend, in ancient times, Dayu managed water and benefited the people through difficulties and obstacles, and did not enter the house for three times. After Dayu died, people went to his grave to offer sacrifices in memory of him. Everyone made many exquisite offerings. At that time, a young man said, "Dayu is a hardworking and thrifty man who has benefited the people all his life." Isn't it against his will to provide so many exquisite offerings? Can Dayu focus on grave robbery? Our offerings should tell him that rice will have a bumper harvest this year and wheat will grow gratifying next year, so that he can rest assured. " Hearing this, people think that this epigenetic makes sense, but they can't think of any food to express it, or that epigenetic has figured out a way; "Why don't we use our own crops, glutinous rice and wheat leaves to wrap jiaozi? In this way, Dayu can know that this year's rice harvest is good and next year's wheat growth is gratifying. " Everyone immediately grinds rice into powder, mashes it into juice with wheat leaves, and makes it into a "green dumpling" for worship. From then on, every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, when the wheat leaves turn green, people will pack "Green jiaozi" and send it to Dayu's grave for sacrifice.

Over time, this custom has been handed down, and people have never forgotten to bring the "green dumplings" to the grave to show their nostalgia and grief for their deceased relatives.

Shepherd's purse group

There must be homemade shepherd's purse balls among the cakes brought by Tomb-Sweeping Day to sweep the grave. In early spring and March, the shepherd's purse on the edge of the rural ridge is very rich, which is very fresh and tender at this time. Shepherd's purse is cool and sweet, which has the effect of improving eyesight and lowering blood pressure. At this time, most rural girls carry bamboo baskets and carry knives, picking and digging shepherd's purse in the fields, or eating it by themselves or selling it in the streets. Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse is a kind of dough filled with shepherd's purse and sprinkled with rice flour. Because shepherd's purse has the function of improving eyesight, it is also called improving eyesight dough. Shepherd's purse Shepherd's purse is generally minced meat mixed with shepherd's purse stuffing (salty) or lard mixed with shepherd's purse stuffing (sweet), which are used separately.

There are two cooking methods: one is to cook jiaozi in a cage; The second is to cook jiaozi (that is, Yuanxiao) in a boiling pot. Whether cooking or stir-frying, whether sweet or salty, it tastes delicious. It is not only a necessary cake ball for grave sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but also a seasonal food in March.

Shepherd's purse cake

Also called eye-bright cake. Rub rice flour into shepherd's purse to make cakes, add pig oil, steam in a cage, cut the cakes into pieces after cooling, and fry them in oil. Its taste is really unusual. It is also a pastry for grave-sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and a seasonal food in March.

Shepherd's purse shepherd's purse needs to be processed before it can be made into cakes, meatballs or matched with other dishes: after buying it back, remove the yellow leaves, cut off the roots, wash it, put it in a bowl or use it with incense. Now you can pickle shepherd's purse with aluminum pot and a little salt for half a day. Then, squeeze out the juice and cut the pickled shepherd's purse into fine powder for later use. Shepherd's purse can be used not only for making cakes, but also for writing, such as shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse, shepherd's purse and shepherd's purse.

Wildfire rice

In the old days, when people swept graves, they cooked in the wild, built stoves with mud bricks, took weeds or twigs as fuel on the spot, and put small iron pots on temporary stoves to cook. Most dishes are sacrifices to graves. When the meal is ready, people will sit on the ground and chew in the wild. This is called wildfire rice, and now it is called picnic.

At present, grave-sweepers in Tomb-Sweeping Day still enjoy eating in the wild, enjoying the beautiful scenery in spring and the local customs in the suburbs, which really brings people spiritual enjoyment and satisfaction. It's just that we don't have to cook for a picnic now. Bread, cakes and the like are usually staple foods. In addition to the food prepared for the grave, beer, drinks, stews and the like were also taken away. At that time, a piece of plastic cloth will be spread out in the wild and all kinds of food will be placed, and people will sit on the floor and enjoy the endless fun of picnics.

Dietary customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, there are still some dietary customs in various places. Usually Tomb-Sweeping Day eats eggs, single cakes, and drinks wheat grains, corn grains or sorghum rice porridge in the morning.

In rural areas, on this day, horses, mules, cows, donkeys and other large livestock are often fed with millet flour, bean cakes and dried rice, and their hard work for one year is rewarded with pickaxes, so there is a saying that "beating one thousand and scolding ten thousand, Tomb-Sweeping Day is in charge of rice".

For example, Jiangnan has the habit of eating green dumplings on Qingming Festival, while Guangdong is more popular to eat roast pork after ancestor worship on Qingming Festival. Besides, the three major ethnic groups in Guangdong are also used to cooking some local food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. These holiday foods either pay attention to the praying psychology brought by ancestor worship or the health care function brought by seasonal characteristics. Chaoshan proverb "eat seasonal fruits" means that you should eat seasonal fruits and vegetables. At this time, fruits, vegetables and corresponding foods are not only delicious, but also have the function of health preservation. For example, eating common melon seeds in Tomb-Sweeping Day, chaozhou people, has the effect of clearing away heat and fire.

The diet custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day in Quanzhou is to eat "cake-moistening dishes" and "Qingming candied fruit".

"Runbing dish" is a thin crust baked with flour, commonly known as "Runbing" or "Spreading Cake", and then rolled into mixed pot dishes such as shredded carrots, shredded pork, long-fried rice and so on, which can be eaten, sweet and delicious.

"Qingming Ji" takes glutinous rice, wheat, dried sweet potato and other flour as the skin, wrapped in sugar bean paste and steamed, sweet and palatable. Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating of "wet cake dishes" and "Qingming candied fruit" is the heritage of the ancient cold food festival.