Green jiaozi is high in calories. Qing Tuan is a kind of food steamed with mugwort juice and glutinous rice in a bamboo cage, which is about the size of a child's fist and filled with bean paste. It is usually eaten the day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Why does Qingming eat green jiaozi?
Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of having a reunion dinner. The Youth League has different names in different places. Shanghai and Ningbo are called Youth League, Suzhou is called Youth League, Hangzhou is called Youth League or Qingming League, Nanjing is called Qingming League or Spring League, Wenzhou is called Qingming Cake, Jinhua is called Qingming Fruit, Crescent Moon is called Qingming jiaozi, and Taizhou people are called Qing.
Jiaozi is wrapped and steamed in a cage. When they come out of the cage, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done. Green jiaozi is as green as jade, sticky and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full. Green glutinous rice balls are also a necessary food for people to sacrifice their ancestors in Jiangnan area. For this reason, green jiaozi is particularly important in the folk food customs in the south of the Yangtze River.
Green jiaozi is made by mashing a wild plant called wheat straw, squeezing out juice, then mixing this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrapping it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is made of delicate sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added to the stuffing.