The green cake eaten at Qingming Festival in Shanghai and Ningbo is called green dumplings, green dumplings are the traditional snacks of the Jiangnan region, green dumplings are mainly made of mugwort juice and glutinous rice, the green dumplings on the market now are filled with bean paste as well as lotus seed paste, and there are also other very rich fillings, so that you can choose the fillings that suit you according to your own tastes. The green cake eaten on the Qingming Festival is also known as Qingming Cake by Wenzhou people, because this cake is eaten on the Qingming Festival, so some locals will also directly call it Qingming Cake. In the Ganzhou area locals will call Qingming fruit for Ai Cao Guo, Ganzhou area of Ai Cao Guo glutinous rice flour put less, do out of the cake put a little rice flour or flour, which will continue to add chili and salt.
In Sichuan, the local Qingming Festival green fruit called Qingming Kuei, Artemisia absinthium poi, in Guizhou, the local people called Qingming poi, in the two regions, people called Ai met, in the southern Anhui region, people called Ai grass fruit.
The green cake eaten at Qingming Festival each region has each region's call, there will be differences in flavor, you can call the name of this cake correctly according to the customs of the family.