The meaning of eating Qingtuanzi is to commemorate ancestors and reunite. Eating green dumplings can also prevent diseases and improve your body's immunity. There is another saying that during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, one of Li Xiucheng's generals hid in the house of a farmer friend, and the farmer friend made Qingtuan for the general.

Qingtuan, a traditional festival food of the Han nationality. Eating Qingtuan is mainly popular in the Qingming Festival, Cold Food Festival and other festivals in the south of the Yangtze River. It is a green cake made with grass juice. The method is to first put young moxa and small wormwood into a large pot, add lime to steam it, rinse off the lime water, and knead it into glutinous rice flour. Green dumplings.

Customs:

During the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in the south of the Yangtze River. Green dumplings are made by mashing a wild plant called "wheat straw" and squeezing out the juice. The juice is then mixed and kneaded with the dried pure glutinous rice flour, and then the dumplings are made.

The filling center of the dumplings is made of fine sugar bean paste. When filling, a small piece of sugar lard is added. After the dumplings are made, put them into a basket and steam them. When they come out of the basket, use a brush to evenly brush the cooked vegetable oil on the surface of the dumplings, and you're done.

Green dumplings are as green as jade, waxy and soft, with a fragrant fragrance. They taste sweet but not greasy, fat but not plump. Qingtuanzi is also a necessary food for people in Jiangnan area to worship their ancestors. Because of this, Qingtuanzi is particularly important in the folk food customs in Jiangnan area.

Reference for the above content? Baidu Encyclopedia—Qingtuanzi