What's delicious in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is a festival for offering sacrifices and sweeping graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Cold Food Festival are combined in many places, so people in many places have the habit of eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In Jiangnan, people are used to eating green jiaozi in Tomb-Sweeping Day, while in Guangdong, it is more popular to eat roast pork after ancestor worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Aizan is a traditional snack for Tomb-Sweeping Day Hakkas. When Qingdao people were in Tomb-Sweeping Day, they had the custom of eating green onions and egg rolls, which meant cleverness. This custom has continued to this day.

In eastern Fujian, regardless of urban and rural areas, most people have the custom of eating mustard. It is said that eating mustard rice mixed with rice on February 2 every year can prevent scabies all year round. Warm mushroom bag is a traditional snack in Taining. The scientific name of the raw material of warm mushroom is Daqu grass, also called Fuer grass, and the local people call it warm mushroom grass. Every year on the eve of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the fields are covered with mousetraps, which is a good season for picking and making warm mushroom packages.

There is a saying in Xiamen that "Tomb-Sweeping Day eats pancakes", that is, in Xiamen and Tomb-Sweeping Day, after sweeping the grave, the family eats pancakes together. Not only Xiamen, but also most parts of southern Fujian have the custom of eating pancakes.