1, green dumplings are made with the juice of mugwort, glutinous rice flour, bean paste filling or lotus seed paste.

2, the green dumplings are traditional snacks in the southern region, is a traditional snack eaten by the people in the south of Jiangnan in the Qingming Festival, according to evidence that the green dumplings of the name began in the Tang Dynasty, has a history of more than 1,000 years.

3, in ancient times, every Qingming almost always have to steam green dumplings, ancient people do green dumplings are mainly used as a sacrifice, although the green dumplings have been passed down for thousands of years, the shape has not changed, but it as a sacrificial offering of the function has been increasingly diluted, but to become a seasonal snacks, more people are used as a spring snacks.