The meaning of eating pancakes and rolled eggs during Qingming Festival

Nowadays, eating pancakes and rolled eggs during Qingming Festival symbolizes perfection.

As a child, the most memorable thing about the cold food Qingming Festival was eating single pancakes and rolled eggs. Because at that time, during the year, I could only eat one or two eggs during birthdays, before exams, and during Qingming Festival. At the beginning, when Duke Wen of Jin ordered a ban on fire and cold food, every household prepared various convenient foods in advance for easy consumption. For northerners who are accustomed to eating pasta, pancakes are the most convenient food. They should be thicker pancakes at the beginning, and then gradually become very thin single pancakes.

Another food that is more convenient and easy to preserve is eggs. Eating eggs originated from the ancient Sacrifice Festival. In order to get married and have children, people boiled various poultry eggs such as chicken eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs, etc. and painted them with various colors, called "five-colored eggs". They came to the river While throwing colorful eggs into the river, they are washed down the river, and people waiting downstream fight to catch them, peel them and eat them. After eating, they can be pregnant. Nowadays, eating eggs during Qingming Festival symbolizes perfection. Of course, now the custom of cold food and fire prohibition has been forgotten.

The Chinese have high energy when it comes to creating delicious food. People mash the eggs, roll them up in a single pancake, sprinkle a little salt on them, roll them up and bite them, it's so delicious, it can't be compared to eating one piece of pancake and one egg. Therefore, in Jiaozhou, Shandong, eating single-bread rolled eggs is a delicacy that is delicious to the core.