There is a custom to eat green dumplings at Qingming Festival. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period Li Xiu Cheng was hunted, the people are difficult to send him food, it happens to be a people stepped on the wormwood, and then thought of a plan to make a green ball, after all, the green color of the green ball is completely out of sight is a kind of food, in order to save their lives, and then the Taiping army were asked to learn to make a green ball to save their lives, and therefore the custom of eating the green ball is so passed out.

The origin of eating green dumplings on Ching Ming Festival

Legend has it that one year during the Ching Ming Festival, the general of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Xiu Cheng, was pursued by the Qing soldiers, and a farmer plowing nearby came forward to help him, disguised Li Xiu Cheng as a farmer and plowed the land together with himself. Not having captured Li Xiu-sheng, the Qing soldiers did not let up, so they set up additional guards in the village, and every person leaving the village was inspected to prevent them from bringing Li Xiu-sheng something to eat.

After returning home, the farmer was thinking of what to bring to Li Xucheng to eat, a foot stepped on a clump of mugwort, slipped and fell, and when he climbed up, he saw that his hands and knees were tinted with a greenish color. He immediately had a plan, and quickly picked some mugwort home to wash and boil squeeze juice, kneaded into the glutinous rice flour, made a rice ball. Then he put the green dumplings in the grass, and mixed them with the sentries at the entrance of the village.

Li Xiu Cheng ate the green dumplings and found them fragrant, sticky and non-sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing sentries and returned safely to his base camp. Later, Li ordered the Taiping army to learn how to make green dumplings to protect themselves from the enemy. The custom of eating green dumplings was then spread.

What to eat on Qingming Festival

Since the cold food custom of the Cold Food Festival was transplanted to Qingming Festival, some places in the north of China still retain the custom of eating cold food on Qingming Festival. In Shandong, Jimo eat eggs and cold biscuits, Laiyang, Zhaoyuan, Changdao eat eggs and cold sorghum rice. Tai'an eat cold pancakes rolled raw bitter vegetables. Jinnan people over the Qingming, used to steam a large steamed bun with white flour, interspersed with walnuts, jujube, beans.

Some areas in the south of China have the custom of eating green dumplings, green dumplings, also known as Qingming cake, cotton bun patty, Tz shell _, Qingming Po, Ai Ye Po Po, Ai patty, Qingming fruit, spinach _, Qingming _, Ai Ye patty, Ai _, Ai grass cake, Qingming dumplings, warm mushrooms, Ai grass green dumplings, and so on.

In the overseas Chinese towns of southern Fujian, some cakes, _____ and rice palms are made for family members to eat before and after the Ching Ming Festival. Shanghai's old custom, with wicker will be sacrificed with the steamed cake dough through up, drying and stored, to the day of the summer, will be fried, to the children to eat.

In Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, the Qingming Festival family wrapped zongzi, can be used as offerings to the graves, but also to do trekking with dry food.

What are the customs of the Qingming Festival

1, trekking: the Chinese people since ancient times, the custom of trekking. Treading green ancient called spring, searching for spring, etc., that is, spring excursions, also known as "spring". Generally refers to the early spring to the countryside to walk and play.

2, tree planting: before and after the Qingming Festival, the spring sun shines, spring rain sprinkles, planting saplings with a high survival rate, fast growth. Therefore, there is a Qingming tree planting custom, some people also called the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day". The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day.

3, flying kites: kites, also known as "paper kites", "kite", kite flying is a favorite activity during the Qingming Festival. Kites are made of paper or silk pasted on the skeleton of bamboo gabions, pulling the long line tied on it, taking advantage of the wind to fly up to the sky, which belongs to a kind of flying machine that simply utilizes aerodynamic power. During the Qingming Festival, people not only release them during the day, but also at night.

4, tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship: tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship, is the center of the Qingming Festival customs. Some places will be Qingming tomb sweeping called "sweeping the mountain", "worship clear" or "worship mountain", etc., out of respect for the ancestors, or "go to the evil word and call for the beauty" of the rhetorical habits.