The origin of dumplings originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and they were born in the same era as steamed buns.

Tuanzi is also known as Tuanzi. It is a stuffed ball. It is said that when Guan Yunchang led 500 cavalrymen on the Huarong Road, in order to wish the soldiers and civilians to live in peace, the people of Jianli, Honghu, Huarong, and Yueyang used sticky rice and glutinous rice as the pulp, and used cabbage hearts as the paste.

stuffing, made into dumplings, and expressed condolences to the soldiers stationed there.

Since then, this famous local delicacy has taken the lead among snacks along both sides of the river.

The changes of time and the inheritance of delicious food have made dumplings the warmest food memory in the daily lives of Huarong people.

The legend of Tuanzi is said that one year during the Qingming Festival, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom general Li Xiucheng was hunted down by Qing soldiers. A nearby farmer who was plowing the fields stepped forward to help him, disguised Li Xiucheng as a farmer, and plowed the fields with him.

Although Li Xiucheng was not caught, the Qing soldiers did not give up, so they added more troops and set up sentries in the village. Everyone who left the village was inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Li Xiucheng.

After returning home, when the farmer was thinking about what to bring to Li Xiucheng, he stepped on a clump of mugwort and slipped. When he got up, his hands and knees were stained with green.

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He immediately came up with a plan, and quickly picked some mugwort, washed it, boiled it, squeezed out the juice, and kneaded it into glutinous rice flour to make rice dumplings.

Then he put the green dumplings in the grass and passed the sentry at the entrance of the village.

Li Xiucheng ate the green dumplings and found them fragrant, glutinous and not sticky to the teeth.

After dark, he bypassed the Qing guard checkpoint and returned to the base camp safely.

Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn to form a Youth League to defend themselves against the enemy.

The custom of eating Youth League spread.