Youth League, the food of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

One of the important activities of Tomb-Sweeping Day's outing is to pick wild vegetables and make them into green balls. Tuanzi is a traditional food that Tomb-Sweeping Day must eat.

The Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River, which is deeply loved by people. To make green meatballs, some use wheat straw, some use green wormwood juice, and of course, other green leafy vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour are mashed into mud and then stuffed into bean paste. There is a taste that is neither sweet nor greasy. It tastes really good.

According to research, the word "Youth League" appeared in the Tang Dynasty, with a history of 1000 years. In ancient times, almost every family steamed dumplings in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and people made dumplings mainly for sacrifice.

Although the Youth League has been circulated for thousands of years, its appearance has not changed, but its function as a sacrifice is getting weaker and weaker, and it has become a tourist snack with strong seasonality.

Today, we will tell the story of the Youth League.

The custom of having a reunion dinner has many origins. Let me tell you that everyone agrees.

Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Qing soldiers chased and killed General Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. On the way to Li Xiucheng's escape, a farmer who was working nearby came forward to help, dressed him up as a farmer and plowed with him.

If we don't catch Li Xiucheng, of course, the Qing soldiers won't let go, so we added soldiers to set up posts in the village. Anyone who leaves the village should be checked to prevent them from secretly bringing something to Li Xiucheng.

When he got home, the farmer was thinking about what to bring to Li Xiucheng so that he wouldn't be found. Who accidentally stepped on a clump of wormwood and slipped? When the farmer got up, his hands and knees were dyed green.

He suddenly thought of a coup, and quickly picked some wormwood to go home, washed it, boiled it in a pot, squeezed it into glutinous rice flour, and made it into blue glutinous rice dumplings. Then he put the blue jiaozi in the grass and fooled the sentry at the village entrance.

Li Xiucheng ate the green ball, feeling fragrant and waxy, neither sweet nor greasy, nor sticky. When it was dark, he quietly bypassed the Qing soldiers and successfully returned to the base camp. Later, in order to thank him for his escape, Li Xiucheng ordered the whole army to learn to be a youth league to protect themselves from the enemy.

The custom of eating dumplings comes from this.

First of all, we need to prepare the following raw materials: 200 grams of rat malt pulp, 200 grams of glutinous rice flour, 60 grams of flour, 80 grams of boiled water, 30 grams of sugar, a proper amount of baking soda, and 280 grams of five-kernel stuffing.

The specific operation steps are as follows:

You can change the thread inside to your favorite taste according to your own preferences.

1. Four types of people should use Qingming Tuan with caution.

(1), old people and children

Because glutinous rice, the main material for making Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a kind of indigestible food. Old people and children have poor digestive function and are not easy to digest after eating.

(2) Patients with pancreatitis and gastritis

The glutinous rice in Qingming Tuan is the natural enemy of inflammation, which will lead to the recurrence or deterioration of the disease.

(3) Diabetic patients

Because the sugar content of the new product Qingming fruit introduced by the merchants is too high, if these patients eat Qingming fruit, it will undoubtedly aggravate their condition.

(4) Patients with cholecystitis and gallstones

Eating green balls may lead to indigestion and aggravate the condition.

2. Be sure to heat it before eating.

Because the glutinous rice in the Qingming Festival is easy to turn back when it is cold, if it is not conducive to digestion, the nutritional structure will be destroyed.

3. Eat with bamboo shoots or Malantou

Eating these foods together can speed up the digestion of Qingming Tuan and is conducive to the absorption of nutrients.

4. Don't mix with fat.

Glutinous rice is a difficult food to digest. If mixed with oil, it will increase the burden on the stomach and cause indigestion.

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