There are several styles of Qingming fruit.

Qingming fruit is a traditional snack of Han nationality in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian in southern China, and it is usually made and eaten around Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The pericarp of Qingming fruit is green, made of wormwood or dogwood, which will soften and harden if left for a long time. There are two kinds of fillings, salty and sweet, and the shapes are also "ingot-shaped" and round.

Chinese name

Qingming fruit

Foreign name

Qingming cake

Another name

Qing, Qing, Guo Meimei

primary raw materials

Rhubarb/Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Oryza Glutinosa

Does it contain preservatives?

no

Main nutritional components

Starch, vitamins

Main edible efficacy

dehumidify

Youlai

Folk inheritance

Edible mode

Sweet and salty.

affected area

Many provinces and regions in southern China.

catalogue

The historical origin of 1

2 production methods

Fresh and clear fruit

Sweet fruit

Detailed steps

3 flavor characteristics

4 Legends and allusions

5 the value of ingredients

worried

Rattan grass

Identification method

1 Historical Source Editor

The more important traditional festivals in China are Shangsi Festival (the third day of the third lunar month) and Tomb-Sweeping Day. Due to the lack of materials in agricultural society, traditional festivals emphasize the culture of "eating". The fruit of Qingming Festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day (gradually covering Shangsi Festival and Cold Food Festival) is rich in diet, rituals (ancestor worship) and family participation (production). [1] Folk customs in Fujian and Taiwan are an integral part of Chinese culture. For example, in Fujian and Taiwan, Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship and eating Qingming fruit were the main activities, which were also very popular in the ancient Central Plains. [2]

Qingming fruit (mouse qu fruit) has a history of at least hundreds of years and has already entered people's lives. [3] The clear fruit of Artemisia argyi, known as Youth League, is the dietary custom of Nanliang Cold Food Festival. Clear fruit made of rat grass and rice flour aims to solve the problems of acclimatization and dysentery of immigrants who migrated from the north to the hot and humid climate areas along the coast of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Fujian after the Eastern Jin Dynasty. [4]

Qingming fruit is very popular in the south, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Qingming Fruit is also called Qingming Tangyuan, Amy Fruit. [5-6]

Sweet fruit

In Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces, as well as Jiangxi, Hunan and Anhui provinces, there is a custom to make eating clear fruits. [7]

2 production method editing

Qingming Cake [8], as a special snack of Han nationality in south-central China, is also called Qingming Ba (Jiangxi) [9], Qingming Steamed Bun, Qingming Haoziba and so on. This snack was made in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong, Fujian and Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taiwan Province Province. The main difference between qingmingguo and qingtuan (as it is called in Jiangsu and Shanghai) is that the skin is weak in fluidity and can maintain its inherent shape after maturity. [ 10]

Qingming fruit is a kind of rice flour soft food, which is made by cleaning rats (rats) or wormwood (wormwood) collected in the field, mashing and juicing, mixing with dry glutinous rice flour and rice flour, kneading into skin, and stuffing.

According to different fillings, Qingming fruit can be divided into sweet taste and salty taste. Salted fruits are mostly filled with delicacies such as bamboo shoots or pork, and wrapped into a jiaozi shape of about 100g; Sweet and clear fruits are usually filled with red bean paste and sesame sugar, which are mostly wrapped in circles.

Fresh and clear fruit

Fresh and clear fruit

The stuffing wrapped in salted fruit can be bacon, bamboo shoots, white radish, mushrooms, red peppers, tofu, sauerkraut/pickles/pickles, bean sprouts, etc. And made into the shape of jiaozi.

Sweet fruit

Sweet fruit is wrapped with sesame, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar or bean paste, pressed into a round mold and steamed. In some areas in Sanming, central Fujian, it is necessary to use a round carved wood mold to press the wrapped clear fruit into the mold before printing the pattern, and the unprinted side will be covered with a round bamboo leaf. (Note: Doubtful, some areas in Jiangxi also have this habit)

Detailed steps

Wash the weeds (cabbage) or wormwood (wormwood) of rats with clear water, blanch them in a boiling water pot (a spoonful of salt can be added), immediately take them out and drench them with cold water, mash them with Chu Jiu (original ecological method) and grind them with a blender (modern method) into a paste.

In advance, a proper amount of glutinous rice and japonica rice (rice) are ground into moist and delicate rice flour ~ mixed with pasty grass mud and kneaded into dough. After steaming, they are rounded and pressed into small pieces of skin. (Or mix the rice paste and wormwood in a large pot until the rice paste becomes solid, so that the skin can be made. )

(1) Salted fruit: cut all stuffing materials into diced or small pieces, stir-fry them thoroughly in a hot pot, and add appropriate amount of salt/pepper to taste;

(2) Sweet and clear fruit: Generally, white sugar is added when sesame, bean paste and other fillings are pre-mixed, and the cooked fillings can be wrapped.

When the skin of the pot is cool, wrap it with stuffing and make it into your favorite shape (to prevent adhesion, the leaves are usually placed under the wrapped clear fruit), and then steam it on the pot for about a quarter of an hour. [ 1 1]

3 flavor feature editor

Clear fruit (2 pieces)

The shape of Qingming fruit is somewhat similar to that of jiaozi, which is the first size, and it is also similar to mash (a southern snack made of rice flour) in technology. This kind of dim sum is smooth and waxy, looks oily and green as jade, and smells like a spring field. It tastes sweet but not greasy, fat but not full.

4 Legend allusions editor

Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taiping Chen, the right-hand general of Li Xiucheng, a loyal monarch of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was hunted down by Qing soldiers. A farmer nearby came forward to help, disguised Taiping Chen as a farmer and plowed the land with him. Taiping Chen was not caught, and the Qing soldiers didn't stop there, so they sent more soldiers to set up posts in the village, and everyone who left the village had to be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Taiping Chen.

After returning home, when the farmer was considering what to take to Chen Taiping, he went out and slipped on a clump of wormwood. When he got up, he saw that his hands and knees were stained with green. He immediately took care of it, quickly picked some wormwood and went home, washed it, boiled it, squeezed it into glutinous rice flour and made it into zongzi. Then put the green jiaozi in the grass and mix with the sentry at the village entrance. Taiping Chen ate this green ball and felt fragrant, waxy and non-sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing army post and returned to the base camp safely. Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn to be a youth league to defend itself against the enemy. The custom of eating dumplings spread. [6]

5 food value editor

Clear fruit is mostly made of wormwood or dogwood.

worried

Wormwood is bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the spleen, liver and kidney [12]. The special smell of wormwood also has a certain effect. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica records that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is warm, bitter, nontoxic and pure yang, which has the functions of dredging the twelve meridians, restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, stopping bleeding and preventing miscarriage. It is also a commonly used medicine in acupuncture.

Rattan grass

Common name for rat-weed. It's rat weed. And Qingming grass. Also known as Foer grass, green vegetables, cold dishes, cotton dishes, rice dishes, shepherd's purse, ground vegetables and vanilla niang. Has the effects of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, lowering blood pressure and expelling wind. "Compendium of Materia Medica" has written records: "Qu, saying that its flowers are as yellow as Qu, can also be eaten with rice noodles. A mouse's ear is said to have the shape of a leaf like a mouse's body. It has white fur as thin as jade. [ 13] [ 14- 15]

Identification method

The leaves of wormwood are obviously different in color on both sides, and its fragrance is special, which is different from other similar plants. In the season suitable for picking and eating, this plant has just sprouted pale yellow to yellow flowers. If the flowers are open and no longer in bud, it is considered that the plant has deviated from the bud stage and is not suitable for eating.