What does it mean for Tomb-Sweeping Day to eat jiaozi?

Eating jiaozi is a traditional custom, which symbolizes peace and happiness in order to drive away evil.

Jiaozi keeps his eyes wide open to avoid evil spirits. He is lucky all the year round. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called cold food. You can't eat cold food with fire. You should eat some cold food, such as persimmon and sugar cake. Jiaozi is one of them. These are cold foods in the north and glutinous rice cakes in the south.

Jiaozi is shaped like an ingot, which means that people in China are lucky, and jiaozi, a vegetarian in the Qingming morning in the north, means that people who have been vegetarian for one year are totally clean and healthy, and they also intend to eat wormwood in Qingming to avoid getting infected with sores.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's married daughter will pack 36 or 72 mugwort jiaozi back to her mother's house, take these jiaozi to her mother's grave to worship her ancestors, and then give mugwort jiaozi to her niece and nephew. There is a saying that after eating jiaozi from her aunt, Tomb-Sweeping Day must eat jiaozi from her aunt, hoping to make progress in her studies in one year.

The bride's family's sister-in-law will also host her sister-in-law with Ai Ye and jiaozi. Generally, there are 999 bags, which should be put in a circle to symbolize long and round.

Tomb-Sweeping Day cuisine:

1, Green jiaozi

During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Jiangnan had the custom of eating green jiaozi. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi.

2. Aizan

There is an old saying in Hakka that "eating mugs around Qingming Festival will keep you from getting sick all year round". Aizan is a traditional snack of Tomb-Sweeping Day Hakkas.

3. Warm mushroom bag

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 moustaches, which are hairy, fresh and tender, and it is a good season to pick and make warm mushroom packages. In Taining, the production of warm mushroom buns is somewhat different.

4. Xunzi

Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China. "Zanzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, and was called "cold ware" in ancient times. The custom of forbidding fire and cold in the Cold Food Festival is not popular in most parts of China, but the prickly heat related to this festival is deeply loved by the world.

The prickly heat that is popular in Han areas is different from the north and the south: the prickly heat in the north is generous and free, with wheat flour as the main material; The southern prickly heat is exquisitely made, mainly rice and flour.

5. eggs

According to folk custom, Tomb-Sweeping Day has good health all year round after eating an egg. Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs originated from the custom of forbidding fire in some areas in the pre-Qin period, and forbidding eating cold food for many days. Hard-boiled eggs are the best food reserves to survive this period.

Tomb-Sweeping Day can eat eggs to play on this day, which can be roughly divided into two types, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted eggs can be eaten; And "carving eggs" is just for enjoyment.