Another year is the arrival of Tomb-Sweeping Day. As a traditional folk festival in China, Tomb-Sweeping Day has various customs. On this day, everyone is carrying out various activities.
When I came to grandpa's house, grandma was making fruit, which made people look greedy. After my mother and I washed our hands, we got involved.
Because I am all thumbs, I can't do the first part, so I will remember the next method: first prepare Qingming fruit stuffing with various flavors; Blanching Folium Artemisiae Argyi with hot water, squeezing out bitter juice, then washing with cold water, and repeating twice; Then add a little seasoning and cook the leaves in a pot.
Then I can make it by hand I will repeatedly stir and knead the juice of mugwort leaves and glutinous rice flour. After that, I twisted it into strips, divided it into many small pieces and filled it with stuffing. Finally, I can knead it into various shapes according to my own wishes: my grandparents kneaded it into the shape of jiaozi, and I kept trying and finally got some shapes of jiaozi. Later, one is better than the other. My grandparents also praised me for being smart, and I was embarrassed.
After that, I vividly described the legend about the origin of Qingming fruit that I found on the Internet:
Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taiping Chen, the right-hand general of Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased by Qing soldiers, and a farmer helped him pretend to be a farmer. The Qing soldiers who didn't catch Taiping Chen sent more soldiers to set up posts in the village to check everyone who left the village to prevent them from bringing food to Taiping Chen. When the farmer was considering what to take to Chen Taiping, he stepped on a clump of wormwood and slipped when he went out. When he got up, he saw that he was stained by green. He immediately took care of it, picked some wormwood, washed it, cooked it, squeezed it into glutinous rice flour, made it into green zongzi, and put it in the grass and mixed it with the sentry at the village entrance. Taiping Chen ate this green ball and felt fragrant, waxy and non-sticky. Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn to be a youth league to defend itself against the enemy. The custom of eating dumplings spread. It also formed the custom of eating Qingming fruit now.
Before long, the Qingming fruit was steamed. I picked my favorite sesame flavor, maybe I made it myself. It's delicious and fragrant. I'm very happy.