What to eat during Qingming Festival, are you eating right?

Qingming Festival is a solar term as well as a festival. Because the customs and habits in each place are different, the food they eat also has its own characteristics. For example, in most parts of our country, people eat eggs on Qingming Festival because they believe that as long as they eat eggs on this day, every day thereafter will go smoothly. In addition, people in Zhejiang have the habit of eating steamed noodles, while people in southern Shandong have the habit of eating vegetable pancakes, and even people in the south of the Yangtze River have the habit of eating green dumplings.

1. Eat eggs

In most parts of our country, there is a custom of eating eggs during Qingming Festival, which is as important as eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival and eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to folk customs, eating an egg on Qingming Festival will ensure good health throughout the year.

Egg-tapping: Eating eggs during Qingming Festival now symbolizes perfection. Children hold eggs in their hands and bump them against each other to see whose egg has the harder shell. The winner who holds out to the end will be happy for a long time...

2 Steamed Noodles

"Qingming swallows, Dragon Boat Festival eggs, and bean flour kneading on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month." Qingming Festival is the time when spring swallows return. In ancient times, people liked to express their love for spring by steaming swallows with noodles, and they hoped that agricultural production would be good in the new year. Later, it gradually became a custom and has been passed down to this day.

In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, many older families have the habit of steaming noodles.

"In rural areas, people make flour swallows during the Qingming Festival. During the Qingming Festival, swallows return from the south and land on farmers' grain storages, which brings a good harvest to the farmers."

3 Vegetable Pancakes

In southern Shandong, it is popular to eat vegetable pancakes during the Qingming Festival. Vegetable pancakes are made from more than ten kinds of grains such as peanuts, corn, sesame, wheat, and soybeans, ground into flour or paste with a stone mill, rolled with vegetables, and prepared with exclusive mysterious spices. They have a crispy, fragrant and tender taste and are unique.

4. Eat Green Rice Balls

During the Qingming Festival, people in the Jiangnan area have the custom of eating green dumplings.

It is made by crushing a wild plant called "wheatgrass" and squeezing out the juice. The juice is then mixed with dried water-ground pure glutinous rice flour and kneaded to make dumplings.

The green dumplings are as green as jade, glutinous and soft, with a refreshing fragrance. They taste sweet but not greasy, and fat but not plump.

5. Eat Sanzi

There is a custom of eating Sanzi during the Qingming Festival in various parts of my country. "Sanzi" is a fried food that is crispy and delicious. It was called "Hanju" in ancient times.

6. Eat Qingming Snails

The Qingming Festival is the best time to eat snails, as the snails have not yet reproduced during this season and are the most plump and fat. Hence, there is a saying that "Qingming snails are worth a goose."

7 Steamed Pu'er Seed Cake

There is a tree in Chaoshan called the Pu Zi tree (also called the Pu Ding tree, belonging to the Ulmaceae family), which tastes sweet. People pick the leaves of this tree, pound them into powder with rice, ferment them and add sugar, and use ceramic molds to steam them into Pu Zi Cake, which comes in two shapes: plum blossom shape and peach shape. There is also one called bowl fermented peach. The rice cake is light green in color and tastes very sweet.

8. Run Pancake Dishes

During the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of eating "runbingcai" in Quanzhou and Xiamen.

"Runbingcai" is made of flour and baked into a thin skin, commonly known as "Runbing" or "Cabing". When eating, spread out the skin and then roll it with mixed dishes such as shredded carrots, shredded meat, oyster omelet, coriander, etc. It is simple to prepare and tastes sweet and delicious.