Green Dumpling is a traditional snack specializing in Jiangnan region.

The green color, mixed with the juice of mugwort into glutinous rice flour, then wrapped in bean paste filling or lotus seed paste, is not too sweet and not too greasy, with a light but long-lasting fragrance. Green dumplings are a traditional snack eaten by people in the south of the Yangtze River during the Ching Ming Festival. According to evidence, the name "green dumplings" began in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years, and almost all of them have to be steamed at Ching Ming, and in ancient times they were mainly used for rituals.

While the green dumplings have been passed down for thousands of years, the shape has not changed, but its function as a sacrificial offering has been increasingly diluted, but has become a seasonal snack. To make green dumplings, some use pulpy wheat grass, some use green wormwood juice, and there are other green leafy vegetable juices and glutinous rice flour pounded and then filled with bean paste. The function of the green dumplings as a ritual is fading, and they are more often used as a snack for spring trips.

Historical origin:

According to the evidence, the name of "green dumplings" began in the Tang Dynasty, and almost every household in Jiangnan steams green dumplings every Ching Ming Festival, although the shape of the green dumplings has remained unchanged for thousands of years, but now people are more in order to taste the new, and the function of the green dumplings as a festival is increasingly fading. The function of green dumplings as rituals is becoming more and more diluted. "It has been said that the smoking is prohibited in the kitchen, and the red lotus root and green dumplings are sacrificed to the ancestors.

This poem "Wu Men Bamboo Poem" is about people eating cold food and sacrificing red lotus root and green dumplings to their ancestors during the Ching Ming Festival, in which the "hundred and five" refers to the 105 days after the winter solstice as the cold food. Qing Dynasty "Qing Jia Records" on the green dumplings have a clearer explanation: "the market sells green dumplings cooked lotus root, for the sacrifices to the first product, all can be eaten cold.