Purple-legged steamed stuffed bun, also called old steamed stuffed bun, is a traditional food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival. Fireworks are not allowed to be set off during the Cold Food Festival, and only cold food and cold dishes are allowed to be eaten to commemorate the aristocratic meson push of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, due to the connection between cold food and Qingming, it gradually merged into a festival, but the custom of steaming "pushing buns" before the festival has been spread in Yulin and Yan' an in northern Shaanxi.

Xunzi "Xunzi" is a kind of fried food, crisp and delicate, which was called "cold food utensils" in ancient times. At that time, in order to commemorate the retreat of the famous minister of the State of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Cold Food Festival (one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day) was fasted for three days, so people fried some ring-shaped pasta in advance as fast food for the Cold Food Festival, which was called the "Cold Food Festival". Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating prickly heat in both north and south of China.

Zifu

Chinese cuisine in Shanxi, Shaanxi and other provinces. Coat the flour with dates, beans, walnuts, etc. Put an egg on the outer layer, put snakes on the surrounding plates and steam in a steamer. It was originally used to pay homage to ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day and pray for the happiness of future generations.

Crown daisy rice cake

In ancient China, during the Cold Food Festival, people did not make a fire to cook, but only ate cold food. Cold food is food prepared in advance without heating. Haozi Baba is a snack in southern Anhui, named after its color. The wormwood juice, which was only available before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, was mixed into glutinous rice/glutinous rice/flour in proportion, rubbed evenly by hand, then wrapped with different fillings according to everyone's preference and steamed.

Jujube paste cake

Jujube cake is also called "self-pushing cake". In some parts of the north, fermented grains are used to make dough, and steamed dates are served. They are also used to making jujube cakes into swallows, stringing them with wicker and hanging them on the door, and eating them cold to commemorate the noble quality of mesons in promoting fame and fortune. Cake is a grain, and adding dates to the grain conforms to the purpose of preserving health and sweetening in spring, which can increase the function of spleen and limit the excessive publicity of liver qi.

Face flower

Making flour flowers is a specialty of women in northern Shaanxi. With their dexterous hands, they can knead fermented white flour into flour flowers of various shapes. Tools are just daily necessities such as combs, scissors, awls and tweezers, and accessories are red beans, black beans, peppers and food pigments. Steamed noodles are lifelike, especially like art treasures, which makes people reluctant to put it down and eat it at once.

Qingming fruit

Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household has to make a kind of food called Qingming fruit, which is used to sweep graves and worship ancestors. The shape of Qingming fruit is a bit like jiaozi, but its taste is quite different. The epidermis of Qingming fruit is made of a plant called Artemisia argyi, a perennial herb with small yellow flowers and leaves as small as compositae, which are covered with awnings and clusters.

Onions and omelets

Many families in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Qingdao eat green onions and egg rolls, which means cleverness. This custom has continued to this day. In addition, in the old days, there were people in Qingdao who wanted to knead dough flowers, called "steamed Xiaoyan" and eat white-flour chicken and eggs. It means that the swallow has come and the real spring has come. On a clear morning, the whole family must eat eggs and white-flour chicken, so as not to get sick because of bright eyes. Many students will bring eggs to their teachers to show their admiration.