Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is blue, mixed with the juice of wormwood into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped with bean paste or lotus paste. Not sweet or greasy, the fragrance is light but long. Reunion dinner is a traditional snack eaten by Jiangnan people in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which has the significance of commemorating ancestors and reunion.
According to research, the name of the Youth League has a history of 1000 years since the Tang Dynasty. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, almost all the youth leagues have been steamed. 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, but it has become a seasonal snack. ?
Historical allusion
Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Li Xiucheng, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased by Qing soldiers. A farmer nearby came forward to help, disguised Li Xiucheng as a farmer and cultivated land with him. Li Xiucheng didn't get caught, and the Qing soldiers didn't stop there, so they sent more soldiers to set up posts in the village. Anyone who left the village had to be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Li Xiucheng.
When he got home, the farmer thought about what to bring to Li Xiucheng and slipped on a clump of wormwood. When he got up, he saw that his hands and knees were stained with green. He immediately had a plan, and quickly picked some wormwood to go home, washed it, cooked it, squeezed it into glutinous rice flour and made it into zongzi.
Then put the green jiaozi in the grass and mix with the sentry at the village entrance. Li Xiucheng ate the green ball, and felt that the fragrant glutinous rice was not sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing army post and returned to the base camp safely. 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.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Youth League.