youth league.

according to research, the name of "Youth League" began in the Tang Dynasty. Up to now, almost every household in the south of the Yangtze River steamed Youth League every Qingming Festival. Although the shape of Youth League has remained unchanged for thousands of years, people should try new things now, and its function as a sacrifice is gradually weakening. According to legend, the kitchen is forbidden in the Hundred Five Years Plan, and the red lotus root youth league is sacrificed first. This poem "Wumen Zhuzhi Ci" says that people eat cold food youth league in Tomb-Sweeping Day and sacrifice their ancestors with red lotus root and youth league. The "Hundred Five Years Plan" mentioned in it means that 115 days after the winter solstice is cold food. Qing Dynasty "Qing Jia Lu" has a more clear explanation for Qing Tuan: Qing Tuan cooked lotus root is sold in the market, which can be eaten cold.

Yuan Mei, a literature and gourmet in the Qing Dynasty, recorded in detail the making of the Youth League: "Muddle the grass into juice, and make it into a ball with powder, 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 green Ai, and some are made of bromegrass juice and glutinous rice, so that the green juice and rice flour are blended with each other, and then stuffed with bean paste, jujube paste and other fillings, with reed leaves at the bottom, and placed in a steamer. When steamed, the cooked vegetable oil is evenly brushed on the surface of dumplings with a brush, so the dumplings are blue and oily green, tender and tender, sweet and delicate, fragrant and refreshing, and have the smell of spring from color to taste. It is a traditional snack of southern people during the Qingming and Cold Food Festival.

The dumplings are oily and green as jade, tender and tender, fragrant and fragrant, and it is a natural and green healthy snack. After steaming, the soft skin is green, and the bean paste stuffing is sweet but not greasy, with a light aroma of wormwood and delicious.