What is there to eat in Chaoshan Qingming?

Chaoshan area can be said to be the hometown of Cantonese cuisine, which is rich in traditional cuisine all year round, among which the most common is various "pots". Chaoshan people are famous for eating "pots", and every family must make them on holidays. Authentic Chaoshan housewives must also know one or two traditional "pots".

In Chaoshan area, all processed foods such as rice flour, flour and potato flour are collectively called "pots". Cooking is one of the most important family programs during various festivals in Chaoshan. However, although "Nian" is a daily snack in Chaoshan area, Chaoshan people will also present different practices according to each festival, which is the so-called "seasonal year".

For example, Chaoshan people want to make "mousetraps" in the New Year, and sweet, fermented and cauliflower in the Lantern Festival, which means "three cages", which means sweetness, hair and color, while in Tomb-Sweeping Day, where gods or ancestors are worshipped, park seeds are mainly used.

The origin of Puzi fruit is related to the local trees in Chaoshan. This kind of tree is called Puzishu (also known as Pudingshu, belonging to Ulmaceae), with oval or rectangular leaves and fruit as big as mung beans. It is sweet and nontoxic, and has the effect of resolving phlegm and regulating qi. During the Qingming period, the climate is getting warmer and the vegetation is lush, and the leaves of Puccinia stipulata are full of light green.

The seed tree in the park also recorded a sad history of Chaoshan people. It is said that Yuan soldiers invaded Chaozhou before Tomb-Sweeping Day, killing and looting, and many people were forced to flee into the mountains. In these famine years, chaozhou people was so hungry that he had to pick leaves from garden seeds to satisfy his hunger. Remember the deep hatred, later generations made steamed "Pu Zi Su" in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which has been passed down to this day. Therefore, there is a folk proverb of "eating leaves on Qingming Day" in Chaoshan area.

Shop pot is a traditional pastry in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is known by almost Chaoshan people at home and abroad. At the same time, Tomb-Sweeping Day's cooking as a "shop pot" is also a traditional dietary custom of Chaoshan people, which fully shows the ethnic customs and dietary characteristics of Chaoshan hometown of overseas Chinese. Tomb-Sweeping Day, a Chaoshan villager who is far away in a foreign land and overseas, will offer Pu Guo Zi when he goes back to his hometown to sweep the grave, which is a unique way for Chaoshan people to remember their ancestors.

According to "Illustration of Chinese Medicinal Plants", cypress leaves are pungent and cool. Enter the liver meridian. It has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a season of alternating spring and summer. With the food provided by ancestor worship in Tomb-Sweeping Day, we can not only worship our ancestors, but also adjust our bodies to meet the arrival of summer. It shows that Chaoshan people have won the way of keeping in good health and are flexible.

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