Why eat green Qingming
Shanghai people eat green food in the Qingming Festival, the custom can be traced back to two thousand years ago in Zhou dynasty. According to the rites of the Zhou Dynasty records, when & ldquo; February to Muduo follow fire ban in junior high school & rdquo; regulations, so people extinguish cooking & ldquo; cold three days & rdquo;. In the cold period, which is one or two days before Qingming, is specific for the ” cold day festival ”.
Glutinous rice, cheese, cream of wheat, almond cream Yang ancient cold food festival's traditional food, these foods can be prepared in advance, cold day festival to eat, do not have to light a fire for cooking.
& nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; in cold day festival's traditional food and a & ldquo; green fine meal & rdquo; according to the trivial recorded "record: & ldquo; Shu into case of cold food day, Yang Tong the leaf mining, fine Holly rice dyeing, the color green and shiny. & rdquo; Ming Dynasty "seven repair withered kind" also said: & ldquo; cold food observance of the ancient mining Yang Tong the leaf, rice dyeing cyan to sacrifice, Ziyang gas, now it is bluish white dumpling, but the righteous also & rdquo;. Qing Dynasty, "Ka Ching recorded" a more clear explanation of the Youth League: & ldquo; City sell youth cooked lotus root, first worship of the goods, all cold & rdquo.
& nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; now, Youth League some by Ai Qing, some to Brome grass juice and glutinous rice flour ramming with bean paste for the filling into, handed down for more than a hundred years, still a little old face. People use it to sweep the tombs worship, but more is to should try something new, green as a sacrificial function is weakened. Therefore, some sell Youth League stores insight into this, in previous years there had been a variety of sweet and salty fillings of youth, such as lard rose youth, black ocean youth crisp, golden ear meat Youth League and other, but the good king long, these originally by people in favor of youth, unexpectedly aborted, really make people puzzled.
