What to eat during the Qingming Festival? Recommendations for traditional food that are essential during the Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival is also known as the Spring Festival. When traveling during the Qingming Festival, you must try the special food of the festival. So, do you know what traditional foods are eaten during Qingming Festival? Let’s find out together.

What food to eat during Qingming Festival

Qingtuan

Qingtuan is a very special delicacy of the Qingming Festival. Some Qingtuan are made of green wormwood, while others are made of brome grass juice and glutinous rice flour, and then filled with red bean paste. The green dumplings are as green as jade, glutinous and soft, with a refreshing fragrance. They taste sweet but not greasy, and fat but not plump. Green dumplings are also an essential food for people in the Jiangnan area to worship their ancestors.

Wine Herb Head

After the Waking of Insects, the provinces and regions south of the Yangtze River, as well as Shaanxi, Gansu, Guizhou and Yunnan. The ground in front of and behind the houses in the countryside is covered with grass heads with thick stems and large leaves. Caotou is the most seasonal food during the Qingming Festival. There are many ways to cook Caotou, such as wine-fried Caotou, Caotou glutinous rice cakes, Caotou white clam soup, etc., which are all the most popular classic foods during the Qingming Festival.

Pancakes

There is a folk saying that goes "eat pancakes on Qingming Festival", which means that the family will gather together to make pancakes and eat them after sweeping the tombs on Qingming Festival. It is mainly popular in southern Fujian. When rolling up pancakes, various vegetables are put inside, which indicates that the crops will prosper and the livestock will thrive. In some areas, it is also believed that eating pancakes wrapped with celery and leeks will make people more diligent (celery), live longer (leeks), and have a more prosperous family business.