During the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in the south of the Yangtze River. Green jiaozi is made by mashing a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" and squeezing out the juice, then mixing this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour and wrapping it in jiaozi.

Jiaozi's stuffing is made of delicate sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added to the stuffing. Jiaozi is wrapped and steamed in a cage. When they come out of the cage, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done.

Green jiaozi is as green as jade, sticky and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full. Green glutinous rice balls are also a necessary food for people to sacrifice their ancestors in Jiangnan area. For this reason, green jiaozi is particularly important in the folk food customs in the south of the Yangtze River. ?

Why does an allusion of Youth League eat Youth League in Qingming Festival? Shanghai people have the custom of having a reunion dinner around Qingming Festival, which can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. 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 was also designated as the "Cold Day Festival". ?

The traditional foods of the ancient Cold Food Festival include glutinous rice cheese, wheat cheese and almond cheese, which can be prepared in advance during the Cold Food Festival, so there is no need to make a fire to cook. ? Nowadays, the reunion dinner is made of green wormwood, and some are made of Bromus inermis juice and glutinous rice flour, which is filled with bean paste. It has been circulated for more than a hundred years, and it is still an old face.

The method of making green dough is to put tender wormwood and millet grass into a cauldron, add lime, remove limewater after steaming, knead into glutinous rice flour, make bright green dough, pick out dough weighing about 75g each, knead into long strips, flatten them one by one, wrap them with stuffing such as bean paste, knead them together, and knead them into dough.

Spread a wet cloth in the cage, put in the green balls, steam in the pot for about 15 minutes until cooked, and then rub some sesame oil on the green balls. People use it to pay homage to their ancestors, but it is more important to try new things. The function of the Youth League as a sacrifice is weakening day by day.