What is the origin and significance of Qingming fruit?

As an important dietary custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day is closely related to the festival itself. Tomb-Sweeping Day was originally a custom of Cold Food Festival, but it was designated as Tomb-Sweeping Day due to the development of Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival.

According to the literature, the first custom of the Cold Food Festival was only the most common porridge, and then it gradually diversified. The historical records of the Youth League can be traced back to the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty only with the existing materials.

Tomb-Sweeping Day was popular in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it was also a traditional snack in some southern areas such as Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Anhui. Generally, it is made and eaten before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Production method:

According to different fillings, Qingming Guo Can is divided into sweet and salty.

Adding white sugar water into Qingming grass, glutinous rice flour and rice flour, kneading into cakes or processing into skins, filling sesame seeds, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar and bean paste, pressing into circular molds, and steaming to obtain sweet Qingming cakes; There are diced bacon, diced winter bamboo shoots, diced red pepper, dried bean curd, pickles, bean sprouts and so on. And made into a salty and clear skin in the shape of jiaozi. ?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is popular in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, a few areas in Fujian and Guangdong, and some areas in Jiangxi, Anhui and Sichuan.