On the Internet, many netizens half-jokingly described the Dragon Boat Festival as a scorpion festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival as a moon cake festival. In the traditional New Year, the customs are gradually dispelled, simplified, and entertained. The Ching Ming Festival has not yet become a "memorial day" for certain foods. This may, on the one hand, show that everyone is cautious about pursuing a long-distance pursuit. It also shows that the Ching Ming Festival is not like other Chinese traditional festivals and it has a nationwide representative seasonal food.

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As far as the author's Shanghai is concerned, the food that best represents the Ching Ming Festival is the Youth League. It is also the food that many people in southern China must eat during the Ching Ming Festival. However, outside the store before and after Ching Ming, there will still be queues for buying youth leagues, which clearly shows the significance of the Youth League in Shanghai.

The green color of the Youth League comes from the leaves of Artemisia, so the green skin of the Youth League should not be uniform, and it should not be as bright as the green one.

Naturally, the regional festival food of the Youth League may be unfamiliar to the people in the north. For example, CCTV News reported on January 28th, 2014 that CCTV broadcast on January 30th of that year would have a blessing program using dim sums from all over the country. A face-faced female chef who practices a pure Beijing accent said that she Using the common wormwood juice from Shanghai, and using glutinous rice flour as a representative of Shanghai, the camera swept away, and what people saw was similar to the food of the Youth League. In the end, at the time of various CCTV microblogs, the familiar pastry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang did not appear in the Spring Festival Gala of that year.

It can be said that many of the foods eaten on the Ching Ming Festival were originally made for the Cold Food Festival. Therefore, although Ching Ming Festival food is very different from place to place, it basically maintains the characteristics of cold food (Of course, if you want to eat after heating it is OK, but the meaning of cold food is “do not move the stove.” For the relationship between Ching Ming and Cold Food, please see I wrote on March 31st, “Is the Ching Ming Festival a Cold Food Festival? Is the grave sweeping a pleasure?”, http://Detail_forward_1316590).

Su Shi’s “Cold Food Postings” has been retained to date, and in the second, he wrote: “Spring River wants to enter homes, and the rain is coming. The huts are like fishing boats, and the water cloud is in the sky. The empty dishes are used to cook cold dishes, and the broken stoves are burned. It is a cold food, but see the Uzbekistan paper. The gate of the king is deep and the tomb is in ten thousand miles. It is also planned to cry poorly, and dead gray cannot afford it."

Ching Ming Festival food, often the same with the Youth League, has a green-blue appearance, which in connection with the production of natural dyeing ingredients.

Take the Youth League as an example. Currently, the most common dyeing ingredient is wormwood, which has a wide growing area and a large planting area. This is because of its extensive role in modern Chinese medicine. In general, people will put washed wormwood into a cauldron, add steamed lime, rinse off lime water and rub it into glutinous rice flour to make a blue-green dumpling.

Wash the wormwood and cook it in the pot, rub it into the glutinous rice flour, then you can make a blue-green dumpling. Of course, some old diners will say that the green corps that are on the market today are not fragrant when they are actually cooked. In addition to wormwood, there are several other coloring plants, such as Ching Ming Grass, commonly known as Mian Cai, and Mian Peng. Its scientific name is “Mu Qu Qu Xi” and is an annual herb, in addition to muddy rape, ramie leaves, etc. .

In fact, the Youth League is not only popular in the Jiangnan region, but also a representative food for Hakkas, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangdong. It is just different in different places. For example, in the eastern part of Guangdong and in the Hakka region of Taiwan, it is called “Ai Lu”. The so-called "粄" is a generic term for various kinds of glutinous rice cakes in the Hakka dialect. The Hakka people actually have many types of Qing Ming, which are distinguished by the different coloring plants they use, including the "Ai Bian", "Tian Ai Lu", and "Yan Ye Lu".

The Ming dynasty Lang Yi mentioned in the "Seven Revisions" volume 43 that the Cold Food Festival eats "green dumplings."

Other foods similar to the Youth League include Shaoxing Ai Dumplings, Qingming Tea in parts of Zhejiang and Anhui, Qingming Tea in Taizhou, and Wenzhou.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Yuanzhang also recorded another Cold Food Festival food called “Green Rice”. His record in the book was: “Yang Tongye, fine holly, and the aquatic progenitor Yu Mao. The cold food has its leaf-tainted rice, which is green and lustrous, and the food is yang. The Yang Tong rice is said to be the Qing Jing rice and stone hunger."

In addition, the menus of Ching Ming Festival and Cold Food Festival also include cold food porridge, cold food noodles, cold food syrup, noodles, snakes, rabbits, date cakes, fine soup, shrines and so on.


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