1. Eating buckwheat vegetables during the Qingming Festival is an old custom of Zhaoqing people. The pronunciation of "buckwheat" in Cantonese is the same as "carriage", which means that the ancestors will return home in a sedan chair to avoid being warm and cold. suffering. Some people also cook and stir-fry the pork sacrificed to ancestors with buckwheat, or fry spring rolls with shredded pork and eggs. Until all the vegetables and meat are eaten, the "Xingqing" for that year is not considered complete. ?
2. Eating sugar cane. There is also the custom of eating sugar cane during Qingming Festival in Zhaoqing, which means joy and sweetness. Adults will tell children that when eating sugar cane, they should eat it from beginning to end and not throw it away before eating. It is said that only in this way will things be done from beginning to end, starting well and ending well. ?
3. Make Fa Jie Si (sound) In Huaiji, according to custom, every household will make Fa Jie Si during the Qingming Festival, using glutinous rice and rice flour mixed with water to make a paste, add sesame seeds and peanuts. Steamed in a "copper tray", it has two flavors: sweet and salty. The sticky rice is mixed with sesame seeds, peanut flavor and very chewy. There are also many people who make deep-fried glutinous rice cakes and round big glutinous rice balls (also called "big golden balls"). In the past, after worshiping the ancestors, these delicacies would be distributed to the children, which meant that the children would grow up healthily and quickly.
4. Evaporated cakes and rice dumplings In Guangning County, rice dumplings and hair cakes are indispensable foods for local ancestor worship. "Zongzi" is a homophonic pronunciation of "all sons", which means that people are prosperous; and "hair cake" "It means that the ancestors protect the prosperity of future generations."