Do you know the origin and custom of green dumplings?

The origin and customs of the green dumplings are as follows:

Origin: Legend has it that one year during the Ching Ming Festival, Li Xiu Sheng was pursued by the Qing soldiers, and a farmer helped him to escape from the Qing soldiers. But the Qing soldiers set up guards to prevent others from bringing food to Li Xucheng, the farmer then picked mugwort home to make dumplings, mixed in the grass, to avoid the sentries, Li Xucheng also ate the dumplings, and safely returned to the base camp. Later, Li Xiu Cheng ordered the Taiping army to learn to make green balls to protect themselves from the enemy, and so the green balls were spread.

Customs: Green dumplings are a traditional snack specializing in the south of the Yangtze River, green in color, with the juice of mugwort mixed into glutinous rice flour, then wrapped in bean paste filling or lotus seed paste, not too sweet and not too greasy, with a light but long-lasting grassy aroma.

The Moral of Green Dumplings

1. Reunion: In the south, it is very common to eat green dumplings on Qingming Festival. Eating green dumplings is like its name, meaning reunion. It also honors our ancestors and expresses our thoughts about them.

2. New Hope: In ancient times, Qingming Festival was also the season of old and new, it was a spring, so it meant new hope and new life. Therefore, on Qingming Festival, every family would eat green dumplings to pray for the prosperity of population and family.

3. Inheritance of traditional culture: In the past, in the ancient Qingming Festival, it was necessary to worship ancestors, and the food for ancestors included green dumplings. Nowadays, green dumplings are mainly one of the delicious dishes in our daily life, so eating green dumplings in Qingming Festival is also a kind of inheritance of traditional cultural practices.