Youth solar terms

Many people only know Tomb-Sweeping Day, but they don't know that the day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day was the "Cold Food Festival".

In fact, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a mixture of three solar terms: Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi Festival in ancient times. Moreover, during his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, he had the custom of eating "Qingming Baba", which was also called "Green Fruit" in some places, which was originally the custom of Cold Food Festival.

It is said that the Cold Food Festival is to commemorate Jiexiu. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled for more than ten years to escape the war. Among them, Minister Jiexiu never gave up, and even cut a piece of meat from his thigh to make soup for Zhong Er in the most difficult time.

Later, Zhong Er tried to become the monarch of the State of Jin, namely Jin Wengong. But mesons bid farewell to officialdom and lived in seclusion with their old mother. In order to force him to come out and continue to assist himself, Jin Wengong spared no effort to let Yamakaji go, but Jietui was determined not to go down the mountain because of his dead heart, and finally he was burned to death with his mother.

Seeing such an ending, Jin Wengong deeply regretted it, so he ordered someone to rebury him, build a temple, and ordered Jiezi to ban fire and cold when he died, in order to send his grief. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".

At that time, the Cold Food Festival was relatively long and lasted for three months. Later Cao Cao changed it to three days. In the early Qing Dynasty, the calendar reform in Tang Ruowang set the Cold Food Festival on the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. You can't make a fire on this day, so you can only eat cold food, so it is popular to eat "reunion dinner".

What wild vegetable is the Youth League made of? 5 kinds of wild vegetables, you can't miss it!

I remember when I was a child, I was most looking forward to the Spring Festival in the second half of the year, but I was most looking forward to Tomb-Sweeping Day in the first half of the year, because there was a cold food festival in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, and every household would have green groups, Qingming Baba and so on. What wild vegetables are there in your hometown to make dumplings? These five kinds of wild vegetables can't be missed!

① Qingming grass.

Qingming grass is also called Qingming cuisine, cold food, rat grass and so on. The scientific name of Thuja officinalis is a kind of weed distributed in the north and south of China.

It has strong vitality and cold tolerance, and it is an early flowering plant. Generally speaking, yellow florets will bloom around Tomb-Sweeping Day. Its plants are not tall, its stems are slender, and its leaves are a bit like mice's ears.

Qingming grass can also be seen from its name. It is a kind of plant that can be eaten as wild vegetables. The most common way to eat before was to eat it as a green ball. This plant is also recorded in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica: "Qu, it is said that Huang Ruqu can be eaten with rice flour. The mouse ear is said to have a leaf shape similar to the mouse body, and it is also pointed out that it has the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, expelling wind and removing dampness, and detoxifying.

In the past, many places in the south used it as a group training, and then Tomb-Sweeping Day used it to worship ancestors. Especially in ancient times, on the third day of March every year, the Han people would collect rat grass and rice noodles to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. At present, this is also the most commonly used wild vegetable in my hometown to make green dumplings.

② wormwood

Now wormwood is also a very common plant in rural areas, and its uses are really extensive. In the past, many people in rural areas raised pigs at home, so they often went to the wild to cut wormwood and feed pigs.

At the same time, it is also a delicious wild vegetable, which is good for frying eggs and making soup. Moreover, it is a custom to insert moxa at the door of every household during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Now it is more developed into products such as Ai Rong and Ai Xiang. Because of the large market demand, farmers in some places specialize in planting.

Wormwood is very common in rural areas and has a high awareness. However, this plant has a strong fragrance. Some people like its smell, others can't stand it. They say that the green balls made from it are too fragrant to eat.

③ Hu Cai

Before, I only knew that Hu Cai could be eaten as wild vegetables. Later, I went to the old father-in-law's house in western Hunan and found that they all made green balls with Hu Cai, which tasted good. There was no dish made with Qingming grass at all.

As the name implies, Hu Cai can be eaten as a wild vegetable, which is a common plant on the roadside, hills, valleys and streams in rural areas. Very crisp and tender before flowering, with sufficient water, less fiber, good taste and rich nutrition.

What's more worth mentioning is that the whole herb of Lysimachia christinae can be used as medicine, which has the functions of detumescence, resolving hard mass, clearing away heat and detoxifying. Therefore, using it as a green ball has a very high edible value.

④ Ramie leaves

In my hometown, many people like to make green balls with ramie leaves. In fact, although ramie is basically a wild plant now, it used to be a crop with high economic value. At that time, it was planted in many rural areas in the south.

Ramie is a treasure all over, and its stem bark is rich in fiber, which is one of the raw materials for spinning and weaving in the past. Roots, stems and leaves can be used as medicine, and leaves can also be eaten as wild vegetables. The juice obtained by boiling its leaves in water can be made into green balls by adding glutinous rice flour.

⑤ Pulp wheat straw

I heard from some friends in the north that in their hometown, most people use wheat straw to make green balls, but Bian Xiao knows wheat straw, but he has never eaten green balls made of wheat straw.

Because it is a little more troublesome to use other plants to make green balls, wheat straw has a high fiber content and can't be used directly, so it can only be taken from its juice. You can boil it with an appropriate amount of alkaline water and filter it to get the juice.

It can also be put into a juicer, ground into pulp, and then filtered with alkaline water to obtain green wheat straw juice and glutinous rice flour, and mixed evenly to make green balls.

Actually, there are too many wild vegetables that can be used to make green balls. You can also use top plants such as mulberry leaves, shepherd's purse, Malantou and alfalfa. If not, use green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, and filter to get juice. It's just that the green balls made of spinach are not as fragrant as wormwood and Qingming grass.