Ching Ming Festival.
The green dumplings are the food eaten on the Qingming Festival, that is, this year's solar calendar day April 4, but generally in China is the southern region to eat more green dumplings, especially people in the southern region, and the green dumplings are not only called the green dumplings, there are also a lot of names, such as the Qingming fruit, Aiming fruit, green wrap, etc., are on behalf of the green dumplings, but also with the Qingming Festival closely related to the one of the food.
The Qingming Festival was also called the "Cold Food Festival" in ancient China, which means that only cold food can be eaten on the day of the Cold Food Festival, and the cold food is eaten because more than 2,000 years ago, according to the legend, Duke Wen of Jin Dynasty, Chong Er, accidentally burned Mianshan, which burned to death the ministers of the merit and the ministers of the merit of the mother, and Chong Er was so remorseful that he ordered to prohibit the fire on the day, and the people therefore invented the food of green dumplings. The food of green dumplings was invented, and the green dumplings originated from this, so eating green dumplings at Qingming Festival has been slowly passed down.
2 What does eating green dumplings mean
To honor the ancestors.
The Qingming Festival to eat green dumplings as the Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes and other festivals, the same is attached to the meaning of the history and allusions slowly passed down, Qingming Festival to eat green dumplings is to pay homage to the meaning of the ancestors. Because most of the Qingming Festival is now used to pay tribute to our ancestors of a festival, but we are generally through the sacrifice of paper money, incense and candles, etc., while the green dumplings are a kind of food to pay tribute to our ancestors, mainly used in the sacrifice, which originated from more than two thousand years ago in the Zhou Dynasty, according to the "Rites of Zhou" prohibited the opening of fire, so began to eat the habit of cold food, over time, eating green dumplings slowly evolved into a way of paying tribute to the ancestors. As time went by, eating green dumplings slowly evolved into a way of paying tribute to the ancestors.
3 Green dumplings will give people taboo
Will.
Green dumplings are generally not recommended to send people, because the green dumplings itself has the meaning of the ancestors, is generally used in the rituals on the food, if you bring to send the words may carry the meaning of disrespect, for the older generation is a very big taboo, perhaps it may be open-minded people do not have anything, but to send things to the people had better pay attention to the following its Meaning, it is best not to give away, you can buy your own consumption.
4 Authentic practice of green dumplings with wormwood
1. Pick fresh wormwood and clean it.
2. Put the mugwort into a pot, add water, and boil it for 5 minutes, then fish out the mugwort and beat it into muddy juice.
3. Then take appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour, add mugwort mud, and then add appropriate amount of warm water.
4. Start kneading the dough and keep kneading it until it does not stick to your hands and knead it into a green color.
5. Make the filling, adjust it according to your taste, white sesame + peanuts + rock sugar.
6. Divide the dough into 30g sizes, then wrap with the filling and steam on the pot for about 10-15 minutes.