Characteristics of Qingming Guo
Chingming Guo is shaped somewhat like dumplings, but the flavor is quite different. The skin of Qingming fruit is made from a plant called moxa. Ai, a perennial herb with small yellow flowers and small leaves shaped like those of the Asteraceae family, is borne in tents and clusters. The production of Qingming Guo is simple, first picking Ai leaves, then wash and squeeze the juice of Ai leaves, mixed with rice flour, made into patties, and finally wrapped inside some dried bamboo shoots, dried tofu, dried plum and other things can be.
The Legend of Qingming Fruit
Late in the Qing Dynasty and early in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Taiping, the right-hand general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "Loyal King" Li Xiucheng, was hunted by the Qing soldiers, and a farmer plowing a field near him helped Chen Taiping escape from being hunted. When Chen Taiping was not captured, the Qing soldiers set up guards in the village, checking everyone who left the village to prevent them from bringing food to Chen Taiping. After returning home, the farmer was thinking about what to bring to Chen Taiping to eat, a foot stepped on a clump of mugwort, and then he thought of a plan, and hurriedly picked some mugwort to go home, washed and boiled, squeezed the juice, and kneaded it into the glutinous rice flour to make a rice dumpling, and then put the green dumplings in the green grass, and blended them with the sentry at the entrance of the village. Chen Taiping ate the green dumplings, felt fragrant and sticky and not sticky teeth. Later, Li Xiu Cheng ordered the Taiping army to learn to make green dough to defend themselves from the enemy, and the custom of eating green dumplings was spread.