Introduction: Qingming Festival is a national statutory holiday. Many people choose to go home to visit their ancestors’ graves during this holiday. So how long is the Qingming Festival holiday in 2018? A year's plan begins with spring. The wind in February of the lunar calendar officially brings spring, and the weather is gradually getting warmer. The Fortune Teller website will interpret every day of February of the lunar calendar in 2018 for you!How many days are the statutory holidays for Qingming Festival in 2018? What date is it?2018 Qingming Festival holiday arrangements:The Qingming Festival in 2018 is on April 5, 2018, which is Thursday, February 20, 2018 in the lunar calendar. There will be a 3-day holiday from April 5th to April 7th. Go to work on April 8th (Sunday). For the specific holiday time of Qingming Festival in 2018, please refer to the holiday arrangement notice issued by the General Office of the State Council. What are the food customs during Qingming Festival?Artemisia cake is a green food to be eaten during the Qingming Festival. There is a custom of steaming mugwort cakes in rural areas. Artemisia cake is similar to the green rice dumpling in the south of the Yangtze River. The making method is: "Pick new Artemisia shoots and pound them together with glutinous rice to blend the Artemisia juice and rice flour into one, use meat, vegetables, bean paste, jujube paste, etc. as stuffing, put it in various wooden molds, use new reed leaves as the bottom, and steam it in a cage." Artemisia cake is emerald green in color and has a fresh plant fragrance. It is one of the foods for Qingming ancestor worship, and is also used as a gift or treat for relatives and friends. In addition, there is a custom of eating tea eggs in Huaiyang during the Qingming Festival.During the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in the Jiangnan area. Green dumplings are made by crushing a wild plant called "wheatgrass" and squeezing out the juice. The juice is then mixed with dried water-ground pure glutinous rice flour to make the dumplings. The filling of the dumpling is made of delicate sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when wrapping the filling. After the dough is made, steam it in a steamer. When it is out of the steamer, use a brush to evenly brush the surface of the dumplings with vegetable oil. That's it. The green dumplings are as green as jade, glutinous and soft, with a refreshing fragrance. They taste sweet but not greasy, and fat but not plump. Qingtuanzi is also an essential food for people in the Jiangnan area to worship their ancestors. Because of this, Qingtuanzi is particularly important in the folk food customs in the Jiangnan area. Qingming snails Qingming season is the best time to eat snails, because the snails have not yet reproduced at this time and are the most plump and fat, so there is a saying that "Qingming snails are worth a goose". There are many ways to eat snails. They can be stir-fried with onions, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine, and sugar. They can also be boiled and the snail meat picked out and mixed, marinated, pickled, or stir-fried. If eaten in the right way, it can truly be said that "one taste of snails brings a thousand kinds of fun, even better than delicious wine." Summary: The above is [How many days are the statutory holidays for Qingming Festival in 2018, and what date is it? 】, I hope the entire content can be helpful to everyone! |
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