What is the Youth League? Why does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat green?

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is first of all a very important solar term. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is a saying that "melons and beans are planted before and after Qingming".

Agricultural proverb "Planting trees is not as clear as Qingming". Later, as the days of Qingming and cold food approached, cold food was the day when people banned fire to sweep graves. Gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name of Qingming and became a custom of Qingming. On Qingming Day, there are no fireworks, only cold food.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Youth Day. During the festival, people go out for an outing, breathe fresh air and fly kites. According to folk superstition, flying kites can keep away from diseases and bring good luck.

Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is blue, mixed with the juice of wormwood into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped with bean paste or lotus paste. It is not sweet or greasy, and has a faint but long grass fragrance. The function of Qing Tuan as a sacrifice is weakening day by day, and more people regard it as a spring outing snack.