The shape of green dumplings is round and the overall look is very cute. It has a light green appearance, which is the color of the mixture of glutinous rice flour and green pigment, and is very characteristic.

The green dumpling is a traditional specialty snack in Jiangnan, green in color, mixed with the juice of mugwort into the glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped in bean paste filling or lotus seed paste, not sweet and not 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.

The green dumplings are called and eaten differently in different places, for example, Shanghai, Ningbo, called the green dumplings, Hangzhou, called the Qingming dumplings, which are stuffed with pickled vegetables, tofu, cured meat and other ingredients, in addition to bean paste filling, but also savory. In Sichuan, there are Qingming vegetable poi, while in Guizhou, the green dumplings are called Qingming poi, and in the Hakka region, the green dumplings are called ai yi yi, which is the collective name for all kinds of glutinous rice and sticky rice pastries in Hakka dialect.

Memory of eating green dumplings

Eating green dumplings on Qingming Festival did not start in modern times, but in fact it can be traced back to ancient times, when people made green dumplings with the juice of mugwort, which is unique to the Qingming Festival, and in the flour. The steamed green dumplings were fragrant with mugwort, delicious and filling, and were left for a longer period of time, so this custom has been passed down to the present day. Therefore, nowadays, people eat green dumplings on Qingming Festival is also the custom of remembering and respecting our ancestors.

The word "dough" in Qingdao also means reunion, so eating green dumplings on the Qingming Festival is also a symbol of the meaning of family reunion. So when it comes to the Qingming Festival, the whole family will come together to make green dumplings, steamed out of the green dumplings are very fragrant, each person ate one of them to feel the atmosphere of the Qingming Festival's traditional festivals and customs.