1, from

Qing Dynasty period, a year of Qingming Festival, a showman named Li Xiu-cheng was chased by the Qing soldiers, a farmer to help him escape the Qing soldiers, the Qing soldiers set up guards, to prevent Li Xiu-cheng to eat food, the farmer then pick mugwort home to make dumplings, mixed in the grass, to avoid the sentries, Li Xiu-cheng also ate the dumplings, and safely returned to the base camp, so that the green dumplings on the circulation of the.

2, moral

The Qingming Festival to eat green dumplings as the Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes and other festivals, with a certain moral, Qingming Festival to eat green dumplings is mainly a sacrifice to commemorate the ancestors; but nowadays, with the development of society, the green dumplings as a sacrifice to the function of the increasingly diluted, and more people are used as a spring snacks.

Extended information:

The grass of the green dumplings eaten on the Qingming Festival:

Green, mixed with the juice of pulpy wheatgrass into glutinous rice flour, and wrapped in bean paste filling, not too sweet and not too greasy, with a light but long grassy aroma. Nowadays, some green dumplings are made from wheatgrass, some from wormwood juice, and some are made from the juice of other green leafy vegetables, pounded with glutinous rice flour and stuffed with bean paste. Green dumplings as a ritual function is increasingly diluted, and more people use as spring snacks.