Tomb-Sweeping Day's food and its implication.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's delicious food and its implication: Youth League represents health and auspiciousness, Ai Jiao represents that future generations will not suffer from disasters, five-color glutinous rice represents abundant grains, prickly heat represents scattered branches, and eggs represent good luck and constant companionship.

1, Youth League symbolizes health and good luck:

Youth League is the most representative food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Green and oily, waxy and soft, not sweet or greasy, with a faint but long grass fragrance, which is more fragrant and slippery when eaten in the mouth. This custom can be traced back to more than 2000 years ago. Because the cold food festival can't make a fire, people will prepare a lot of cakes in advance.

2. Ai Jiao means that future generations will not suffer disasters:

As the saying goes: "Eat Ai on a sunny day, and there is no disaster.". During Tomb-Sweeping Day, every family should prepare some wormwood. Fresh wormwood can be used to make many delicious foods. Besides green balls, mugs and mugs, mugs are also a very common traditional seasonal food.

"Qingming go for an outing, gouge out the tender stems of Tian Ai. Rice noodles and caramel balls are made into jiaozi, and farm game is cooked in a pot. " Eating zongzi in Tomb-Sweeping Day is a tradition in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

3. Five-color glutinous rice means a bumper harvest:

Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household of Zhuang, Buyi and Miao ethnic groups in Guangxi has a tradition of making five-color glutinous rice for ancestor worship and seasonal consumption. Five-color glutinous rice is named after its five colors of black, red, yellow, white and purple, also known as "black rice", green japonica rice or flower rice.

4. Scorpion means spreading branches and leaves;

Eating prickly heat in Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional custom for old Beijingers to sweep graves. Xunzi is a kind of fried pasta, which was called "cold utensils" in ancient times. It is recorded in the ancient book: "Cold food is ready to eat, with glutinous flour and noodles, less salt, twisted into a ring ... The entrance is as crisp as Ling Xue."

5. Eggs mean good luck;

Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day is called "saving eggs". The older generation believed that no matter whether the family had money or not, Tomb-Sweeping Day should eat an egg and be healthy all year round. Eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day also originated from eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Cooked eggs are Tomb-Sweeping Day's food reserves for cooking without fire. In addition, boiled eggs are also convenient to carry in Qingming.