Tomb-Sweeping Day Cuisine Introduction What are the cuisines in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

1, dumplings: There is a dietary custom of eating dumplings in Tomb-Sweeping Day in the south of the Yangtze River. Green ball is a tool to mash a plant called wheat straw, squeeze out juice, and knead the juice into a ball with glutinous rice flour. The stuffing made of red bean paste in the middle is steamed in a steamer, and the surface is coated with vegetable oil after taking out.

2. Aizan: There is a saying that "if you eat Aizan before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, you won't get sick all year round". Aizan is an essential traditional food for Tomb-Sweeping Day Hakkas. Wormwood is made by boiling water with wormwood, draining the boiled wormwood, chopping it into grass mud, the finer the better, then mixing and kneading it with wormwood mud, glutinous rice flour and the water that boiled wormwood before, then wrapping the stuffing such as sesame seeds and peanuts in the middle, sealing and kneading it into a square or round shape, and steaming it in a steamer, so that wormwood is ready.

3. Xunzi: When I was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, there was a custom of eating Xunzi in both the north and the south. Xunzi is a fried food. Although both the north and the south will eat Xunzi, the practices of the north and the south are different. Zongzi in the south is made of rice flour, which is exquisite and meticulous, while Zongzi in the north is made of wheat flour.

4. Warm mushroom bag: People in Taining area have the dietary custom of eating warm mushroom bag in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Warm mushroom bag is made of what locals call warm mushroom grass. The scientific name of warm mushroom grass is mouse grass, also known as foer grass. Warm mushroom buns are made in different places. Fresh-picked warm mushroom grass is used in the south, and the shape of warm mushroom bag is like steamed stuffed bun, round, and the shape of warm mushroom bag is like jiaozi and crescent moon.