What does South Tomb-Sweeping Day eat?

Tomb-Sweeping Day's dietary customs are in some places in the south of China-in Wenzhou, eating colorful cakes is a custom. As the name implies, the noodle cake is a cake made of noodle cake, and some people call it Qingming cake. The noodle cake is translated according to Wenzhou dialect. It turns out that its scientific name is Quxucao, which only exists in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Making noodles and vegetable cakes is very particular. You should go to the field to pick a colorful cake first. (Face-painted ice is not a thing, but it will grow by itself every time you go to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Put it in an inverted mortar (inverted mortar is a tool made of stone, which they used to pour rice cakes in the past), then add rice flour (usually 8 kilograms of white rice flour and 2 kilograms of glutinous rice flour), and add a proper amount of water. Just put all the cotton and vegetables into the rice flour evenly. After pouring, it is also very important to prepare the stuffing inside. The most common thing here is to use fresh and tender rice noodles. When the stuffing is cold, we can wrap it. We must put a grapefruit leaf under the sponge cake. First, avoid sticking to the pot. Second, and most importantly, because after putting grapefruit, this sponge cake will have the fragrance of grapefruit and taste much better. Wrap it and steam it in a steamer for 25 minutes. Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating green meatballs. Mix Bromus inermis juice with glutinous rice to make the green juice and rice flour blend with each other, then wrap it with stuffing such as bean paste and jujube paste, and put it in a steamer with reed leaves as the bottom. Steamed balls are green in color and fragrant, which is the most distinctive seasonal food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are also some people in Shanghai, Tomb-Sweeping Day, who love to eat peach blossom porridge and fish with knives when sweeping graves and having family dinners. In Huzhou, Zhejiang, every family in Tomb-Sweeping Day makes zongzi, which can be used as a grave-sweeping sacrifice or as dry food for hiking. As the saying goes: "Qingming Zongzi is real." Before and after Qingming, snails were fat and strong. As the saying goes: "Qingming snail, a goose." Farmers have the habit of eating snails in Qingming. On this day, they use needles to pick out snail meat for cooking, which is called "picking green". After eating, throw the snail shell on the roof. It is said that the rolling acoustic energy emitted by roof tiles scares away mice, which is beneficial to sericulture after Qingming Festival. On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, there will be club wine. Have dinner with people from the same ancestral temple. People who don't have ancestral temples usually have dinner with the grandchildren of their great-grandfathers. The dishes of Shejiu are mainly fish, tofu and vegetables, as well as homemade sweet white wine. There is a saying in Heshan Town, Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province that "Tomb-Sweeping Day is like the New Year". Tomb-Sweeping Day evening, emphasizing family reunion for dinner. There are several traditional dishes on the table: fried snail, glutinous rice with lotus root slices, bean sprouts, Malantou and so on. These dishes are all related to sericulture. Throwing the leftover snail shells into the house, it is said that the sound can scare away the mice, and the caterpillars will get into the shells to nest and stop harassing the silkworms. Eating lotus root is to wish silkworm babies always spin silk well. Eating sprouted beans is a lottery to win "money". Eating fresh vegetables like Malantou means taking the word "green" to match the "green" of "Qingming".