What is the Youth League?

The Youth League was originally a cold food for ancestor worship. The green ball is green in color, green as jasper, round and moist, smelling the fragrance and emitting the unique fragrance of wormwood. After Tomb-Sweeping Day, it's hard to find the trace again, because the material of making the Youth League-wormwood will only grow in Tomb-Sweeping Day, thus creating the status of the Youth League in spring.

The origin of the Youth League?

According to textual research, the name of the Youth League began in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of 1000 years. Almost every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Youth League is steamed, mainly as a sacrifice. Although the Youth League has been circulated for a hundred years, its appearance has not changed, and its function as a sacrifice has gradually faded, becoming a seasonal snack.

The emergence process of the youth league

Use glutinous rice flour, green tea powder, bean paste, peanut stuffing, etc. Mix glutinous rice flour and green tea powder together, add appropriate amount of water and stir into dough. Rub the dough into a ball, press a depression in the middle with your thumb, add a proper amount of stuffing, stir and close the dough. Cook it in boiling water.

Taste characteristics of youth league

The green ball tastes soft and waxy, and the stuffing is delicious. The addition of green tea powder not only adds a unique fragrance to the green group, but also makes its color more vivid. The addition of red bean paste, peanut stuffing and other fillings provides a different taste experience for green groups.

Communist Youth League means of production

At the beginning of March, before the transplanting season, a lot of green, that is, rat grass, appeared in the rice fields in the south. At this time, the weeds in the field are pulled clean, which leaves room for the seedlings. Secondly, weeds are a treasure, which can not only be cooked well, but also be ground to get juice and added with glutinous rice flour to make green balls.

A green ball made of mouse grass.

The green ball made of mouse grass is yellow-green after steaming, as if it has the taste of rice fields after spring rain, and its fragrance echoes with local flavor. Its stuffing, coupled with seasonal bamboo shoots, is very attractive, and some bacon is added in winter. Fresh bamboo shoots in early spring are all over the south of the Yangtze River, and their fragrance is overflowing.