1, rice kuey teow refers to the green dumplings. Legend has it that one year during the Ching Ming Festival, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "loyal king" Li Xiu Cheng's right-hand man Chen Taiping was hunted by the Qing soldiers, and a farmer plowing nearby came forward to help him disguise himself as a farmer and plowed the land together with himself. Chen Taiping was not captured, the Qing soldiers did not rest, so in the village to add soldiers set up guards, every person out of the village to be checked to prevent them from bringing food to Chen Taiping.

2, after returning home, the farmer was thinking about what to bring to Chen Taiping to eat, out of the door, a foot on a clump of mugwort, slipped and fell, climbed up only to see the hands, knees are stained with a green color. He was immediately on the mind, and quickly picked some mugwort home to wash and boil squeeze juice, kneaded into the glutinous rice flour, made a rice ball. Then he put the green dumplings in the grass, and mixed with the sentries at the entrance of the village. Chen Taiping ate the green dumplings and found them fragrant, glutinous and not sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing sentries and returned safely to the base camp. Later, Li Xiu Cheng ordered the Taiping army to learn how to make green dumplings to protect themselves from the enemy. The custom of eating green dumplings was then spread.