First, draw the outline of the green ball on the drawing paper and draw it gently with a pencil.
Choose a brown-red pencil to draw the bean paste stuffing, and a darker brown will draw the bean paste stuffing more stereoscopically. Wrapped in green, you can draw its highlights and shadows, making the Youth League more stereoscopic.
The green ball is placed on the wormwood leaf, and the pencil carefully outlines the wormwood leaf. Choose dark green, the color of mugwort leaves! Draw a dark part for the youth league in gray.
Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is blue, mixed with the juice of wormwood into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped with bean paste or lotus seed paste or sesame seeds. Sweet but not greasy, the fragrance is light but long.
Qingyuan Festival is a traditional snack that people in the south of the Yangtze River eat in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to textual research, the name of the Youth League began in the Tang Dynasty with a history of about 1000 years. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, Qing Tuan was almost always steamed. In ancient times, people made green balls mainly as sacrifices. Although the Youth League has been circulated for thousands of years, its shape has not changed, but its function as a sacrifice has gradually faded and it has become a seasonal snack.
To make green meatballs, some use wheat straw, some use green wormwood leaf juice, and some use other green leafy vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour to mash and then make them with bean paste. The function of Qing Tuan as a sacrifice is weakening day by day, and more people regard it as a spring outing snack.