Food on Qingming Festival, Tomb-sweeping Day
Qingming Festival (Tomb-sweeping Day), equalize with Easter Day inwestern country, is celebrated on the 15th day after spring equinox,usually from April 4th to April 6th. It's a traditional custom to eatQingmin guo( green glutinous rice), flour confectionaries duringthese days.As Qingming Festival is coming near, Qingming guo which tasted sweetbut not cloy, get hot sales in Yiwu market. We can see Qingming guoeverywhere in vegetable market, supermarkets, peddlary booths and so on. Because of its good taste and cheap price, peddlars can sell 800pcs per day, each for 0.6yuan. In supermarket, daily sale volume is sever hundred yuan, each for 1.0 yuan. And it is expect to be a large increase on Qingming Festival.
Tips for buying Qingming guo:
A. Be careful about the food aditions. Usually, Qingming guo will gethard afer three to five days, Those contains food additions can stay long without getting hard. So, we advise consumer to smell and take aclose look at the color, fresh Qingming guo smells like wormwood scent and is slightly green, but blackish and bright one probably added with artificial coloring.
B. Befor heating Qingming guo, remove off cellophone first, using pe cling film rewrap it and then heat.