The green dumplings are a relatively common food in life, there is no taboo which month can not eat.

Green dumplings are a traditional snack in the southern region of China, and in ancient times they were used for rituals as well as remembrance of loved ones. With the progress of society, the idea of using green dumplings for rituals has faded, and now they are a common food in life, and can be eaten at any time.

The name of green dumplings has appeared in China during the Tang Dynasty, which is more than a thousand years ago, in the ancient times of our country, every family will steam green dumplings to offer sacrifices at the Ching Ming Festival, and with the passage of thousands of years, the sacrificial function of the green dumplings has been increasingly diluted, but has become a traditional delicacy at the Ching Ming Festival of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. But it has become a traditional delicacy for the Ching Ming Festival in Jiangnan families.

The historical origin of the green dumplings

1, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Li Xiu-cheng powerful general Chen Taiping was chased by the Qing soldiers, a farmer plowing nearby to help, the Qing soldiers did not let up, so the soldiers set up guards in the village to prevent the Chen Taiping to bring food, the farmer picked some mugwort home to wash and boil the juice, kneaded into the glutinous rice flour, and then put a rice dumpling. A only rice balls, and then put the green balls in the grass, to Li Xiu Cheng to eat, and later Li Xiu Cheng ordered the Taiping army to learn to do green balls to protect themselves from the enemy, so the custom of eating green balls spread.

2, there is a young man named Jinlan, his father died, relying on his mother at home spinning and weaving to survive, the court ordered that the fields are abandoned to be executed, the mother mistakenly thought that he was late to deliver food, and to be scolded by his son, a moment of thought, thrown into the pond to kill himself, Jinlan immediately jumped into the pond, but only touched a plank.

In order to honor his mother, he will be his mother put the place where the rice basket grows weeds Mianqing pick back, made of bitter cake, which is also the day of the lad sober and sensible, so the day is called Qingming, every year on Qingming Day to the roadside near the pond with a bitter cake to pay homage.