eat green balls.

According to textual research, the name of the Youth League has a history of more than 1, years since the Tang Dynasty, and almost all the Youth League is steamed during Qingming Festival. In ancient times, people made the Youth League mainly as a sacrifice. Although the Youth League has been circulated for thousands of years, its appearance has not changed, but now its function as a sacrifice has gradually faded, and it has become a seasonal snack.

At present, green balls are made of wheat straw, green wormwood juice, other green leafy vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour, and then stuffed with bean paste. The function of the Youth League as a sacrifice is weakening day by day, and more people use it as a spring outing snack.

Extended information:

As the cold food custom of the Cold Food Festival was transplanted to Tomb-Sweeping Day, some places in northern China still retain the habit of eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cold cakes, while Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Long Island eat eggs and cold sorghum rice. It is said that if not, it will be hail. Taian eats cold pancakes and rolls raw bitter vegetables. It is said that his eyes are bright. Jinzhong area still retains the habit of banning fire the day before Qingming.

In many places, sacrificial food is shared after the sacrificial ceremony. When people in southern Shanxi celebrate Qingming Festival, they are used to steaming steamed buns with white flour, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle. The records of folk cold food customs almost suddenly appeared in the documents of the Eastern Han Dynasty, mainly concentrated in Shanxi. Even in the Tang and Song Dynasties, when the custom of cold food was quite popular, its spread was not out of the north.

In the hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian, every time in Tomb-Sweeping Day, you must make some cakes, cakes and rice brown for your family to eat before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the old custom in Shanghai, the steamed cakes used for sacrifice are penetrated with wicker, dried and stored. When they arrive in long summer, they will be fried and given to children. It is said that they will not get sick in summer after eating them. In Huzhou, Zhejiang, every family in Tomb-Sweeping Day wraps zongzi, which can be used as a sacrifice to the grave or as dry food for hiking.