Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is blue, mixed with wormwood juice into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped with bean paste or lotus paste. It is neither sweet nor greasy, and has a faint but long fragrance.
Youth League is a traditional snack that people in the south of the Yangtze River eat in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to research, the name of the Youth League began in the Tang Dynasty with a history of about 65,438+0,000 years. During Tomb-Sweeping Day, almost all the green balls were steamed. In ancient times, people made the Youth League mainly as a sacrifice. 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 juice, and some use other green leafy vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour to make them with bean paste. The function of group worship as a sacrifice is weakening day by day, and more people regard it as a spring outing snack.
According to textual research, the name of "Youth League" began in the Tang Dynasty. Up to now, every year, almost every household in the south of the Qingming River steamed the Youth League. Although the shape of the Youth League has remained unchanged for thousands of years, people should try new things now, and the function of the Youth League as a sacrifice is gradually weakening.
According to legend, the 105 th Five-Year Plan prohibits cooking, and the red lotus root youth league is sacrificed first. This poem "Wu Men Zhi Zhu Ci" says that people eat a cold reunion dinner in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and sacrifice their ancestors with red lotus roots and reunion dinner. The "Five-Year Plan" means that 105 is a cold food from winter to Sunday. Lu of the Qing Dynasty gave a clearer explanation to Qing Tuan: "Qing Tuan boiled lotus root is sold in the market and can be eaten cold."
Yuan Mei, a literary gourmet in the Qing Dynasty, recorded in detail the making of the Youth League: "Water grass as juice, powder as a group, and the color is like jasper." Qing Tuan, also called Ai Tuan, is a kind of green cake made of grass-head juice, some of which are made of Qing Ai, some of which are made of Bromus inermis juice and glutinous rice. The green juice and rice flour are blended with each other, and then stuffed with stuffing such as bean paste and jujube paste, with reed leaves at the bottom, and placed in a steamer.
When steaming, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, so that the jiaozi is green and tender, sweet and delicate, fragrant and refreshing, with a breath of spring from color to taste. It is a traditional snack of southern people during Qingming and Cold Food Festival.