As a traditional food in the south of the Yangtze River, Qingtuanzi is one of the representative foods in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Green jiaozi is made of glutinous rice flour and wormwood, usually wrapped in sweet stuffing such as lotus seeds and bean paste, and also wrapped in salty stuffing. Glutinous rice flour is sticky, the wrapped green dumplings are delicate and chewy, and the taste of wormwood is unforgettable.
Blue and oily green, waxy and soft, with a faint but long grass fragrance, it is more fragrant and slippery in the mouth. Green meatballs are filled with green wormwood and glutinous rice flour and then with bean paste, which can be preserved for 3~5 days, meeting the needs of people for sacrifice and eating without cooking. Up to now, the function of the Youth League as a sacrifice has gradually weakened, and more is to bring people an early adopter experience.
The meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day:
Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors.
Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancestors' beliefs and spring sacrificial customs of early human beings. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors.