Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Cold Food Festival. The main purpose of the Cold Food Festival is to ban smoking and eating cold food. For example, Qing Ming Guo Qing Tuan is one of the most popular foods. In ancient times, it was a transitional ceremony to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, symbolizing new hope and new life. In addition, Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating cold food also has the meaning of "gratitude", emphasizing the nostalgia and gratitude for the "past".
Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating cold food originated from the old system of forbidding fire in Zhou Dynasty. According to Zhou Li, at that time, there was a law that "it was forbidden for Mu Duo to chase fire in middle schools in mid-spring", so people put out cooking and "three-day cold food". During the cold food period, that is, one or two days before the unnamed festival, it is also designated as the "Cold Day Festival".
Youth league introduction:
Youth League, as its name implies, is a kind of blue dumplings, which are produced in the south of the Yangtze River and spread radially in the south of the Yangtze River with Zhejiang as the center. The main materials are seasonal weeds, glutinous rice flour and stuffing, and the weeds collected are often mainly wormwood. Crushing wormwood into green wormwood juice, then mixing glutinous rice flour with clear wormwood juice, mashing, and kneading into dough.
Then add the stuffing, steam it, and brush a layer of oil before taking it out of the pot to make the Xiaoqing dumplings look shiny. The development of Qing Tuan stuffing is also very epochal. In the past, fillings were made of bean paste, sugar or bacon; Now, in order to keep up with the development of the times, the stuffing of the youth league has appeared fruit stuffing, such as blueberry flavor, strawberry flavor and even chocolate flavor.