Artemisia cake: "Yo yo, the deer roars, and the wild wormwood is eaten." The earliest written records of artemisia by the ancients can even be traced back to the "Book of Songs".

Artemisia is a herbaceous plant with a common name: Artemisia wormwood. The leaves are green and the bottom of the leaves is slightly white with downy hairs.

After spring, it grows in low hills and wild fields. After picking, it needs to be mashed, soaked, juiced and dried. This kind of mugwort cake has a slight green grass fragrance, is particularly sweet and delicious, and is actually the most unique food in Lu'an.

Artemisia cake is a special snack in Lu'an, Anhui Province. It is made of artemisia, rice noodles and bacon as raw materials. It has a crispy texture, fresh taste and beautiful color.

Legend has it that the place where the ancient mountain people lived had high mountains and dense forests, and there were many venomous snakes, which often hurt people. The ancestors mixed sweet food with mugwort and plunged it into the snake hole for the snake to eat. If the snake eats it, it will die. This custom is called

Prick the snake's eyes.

Later, people mixed mugwort leaves with rice flour to make cakes. After eating them on the third day of March, they went to work in the mountains to avoid snake bites.

Therefore, mugwort cake is not only a popular Qingming delicacy in Lu'an, Anhui, but also carries little-known cultural information for thousands of years.