Qingming Festival Foods (清明节食物)
Yangtze Delta region — Jiangnan tradition; national festival
Qingming (tomb-sweeping) Festival in early April involves food offerings to ancestors and specific traditional foods: qingming kueh (青团 — green glutinous rice balls) coloured with mugwort or wheat grass juice, spring rolls (the original spring festival food of this date), and cold food (han shi — cold food festival, once observed the day before Qingming). The green rice balls have a bitter-herbal flavour from the mugwort.