The origin of the youth league

Why eat green balls? What about its origin?

Youth League, traditional festival food of Han nationality.

Eating Youth League is mainly popular in festivals like Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival in the south of the Yangtze River. In ancient China, during the Cold Food Festival, people did not make a fire to cook, but only ate cold food.

Cold food is food prepared in advance without heating. Youth League is a snack in the south of the Yangtze River, which is named after its color tone.

The wormwood juice, which was only available before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, was mixed into glutinous rice/glutinous rice/flour in proportion, kneaded evenly by hand, and then packaged into different fillings according to everyone's preferences and steamed. In other parts of China, there are similar traditional cakes, which are made of glutinous rice before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In Guangdong and Taiwan Province provinces, it is called Aizan, in Jiangxi, Ai Guo, in southern Fujian and Chaoshan, and in Guangfu, it is usually called Ai Bing. The prepared green balls are sweet and delicious, and have the aroma of mugwort leaves.

Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taiping Chen, the general of Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was hunted down by Qing soldiers. A farmer nearby came forward to help, disguised Taiping Chen as a farmer and cultivated land with him. Taiping Chen wasn't caught, and the Qing soldiers didn't let it go, so extra soldiers were sent to set up posts in the village, and everyone who left the village had to be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Taiping Chen.

When he got home, the farmer slipped on a clump of wormwood and was thinking about what to bring to Taiping Chen. When he got up, he saw that his hands and knees were stained with green. He immediately took care of it, quickly picked some wormwood and went home, washed it, boiled it, squeezed it into glutinous rice flour and made it into zongzi.

Then put the green jiaozi in the grass and mix with the sentry at the village entrance. Taiping Chen ate this green ball and felt fragrant, waxy and non-sticky.

After dark, he bypassed the Qing army post and returned to the base camp safely. Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn to be a youth league to defend itself against the enemy.

The custom of eating dumplings spread.

The origin of the youth league

The origin of the Youth League: It is said that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, a farmer in Jiangsu was busy plowing his fields when he suddenly heard a rush of hooves in the distance. Looking up, the Qing army was chasing an officer in Taiping Army costume.

The farmer used his quick wits to help the officer take off his military uniform, step into the mud with his feet, and then let him squat in the paddy field, covered in mud and stand up. He plowed the land with a plow in one hand and a whip in the other. When the Qing soldiers chased after them, they saw the peasants barefoot and muddy in the farmland, unlike Taiping Army officers. But the cunning Qing soldiers thought that there was a lake ahead and it was impossible to escape from it, so they set up posts nearby and searched everywhere.

The clever farmer motioned the officer not to enter the village for the time being and tried to bring him some food to satisfy his hunger. Back in the village, the farmers saw the Qing soldiers searching everywhere, and there were Qing soldiers at the entrance of the village to check whether the people who left the village had brought anything to eat for the Taiping Army officers.

Farmers think it is impossible to bring rice or pasta, so what food should they bring? While he was thinking, he accidentally stepped on a clump of wormwood and slipped. When he got up, he saw that his hands and knees were stained with green. He immediately spoke his mind, and quickly picked some wormwood to go home, washed it, boiled it into juice, and kneaded it into glutinous rice flour to make zongzi.

Then put the green jiaozi in the grass and walked to the village with the burden. The sentry saw a round and soft thing in the water grass, but he couldn't see that it was made of rice flour, so he let it go without further inquiry.

When no one is around, officers eat green balls while plowing, which feels fragrant, waxy and non-sticky. When it was dark, he bypassed the Qing army post and returned to the base camp safely.

It turned out that he was Li Xiucheng's right-hand man Taiping Chen. Li Xiucheng was overjoyed to see him return safely.

To commemorate the Youth League that saved lives, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn to be a Youth League to protect itself against the enemy. Since then, the custom of eating youth league has spread to the places where Taiping rebels fought.

Basic introduction of Youth League: Youth League is a special snack of Han nationality in Jiangnan. It is blue, mixed with the juice of wheat straw into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped in bean paste. It is not sweet or greasy, and has a faint but long grass fragrance. Now the shop makes green meatballs, some are made of wheat straw, some are made of wormwood juice, and some are made of other green leafy vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour stuffed with bean paste.

The function of Qing Tuan as a sacrifice is weakening day by day, and more people regard it as spring outing food.

What is the origin of the Youth League?

The Youth League is related to a solar term-cold food. You can't eat hot food that day. Mainly used to commemorate a wise minister named meson tui. He died in a man-made forest fire. On the day of his death, it is forbidden to set off fireworks in memory of him. It is also made of flour and jujube paste into the shape of a swallow, strung with willows and inserted in the door to summon his soul. This thing is called "pushing swallows" (also called intermediary pushing). Whenever there is cold food, people don't make a fire to cook, but only eat cold food. In the north, people only eat cold food prepared in advance, such as jujube cakes and wheat cakes. In the south, there are mostly green balls and glutinous rice and sugar lotus roots. People wear wicker rings on their heads and stick wicker branches on the front and back of the house to show their memory.

Kind of like Qu Yuan.

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The Origin of Shanghai Youth League

Reunion dinner is a traditional holiday food of Han nationality.

Eating dumplings is mainly popular in Jiangnan, Tomb-Sweeping Day, not unique to Shanghai.

The origin of the youth league

Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Li Xiucheng, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased by Qing soldiers. A farmer nearby came forward to help, disguised Li Xiucheng as a farmer and cultivated land with him. Li Xiucheng didn't get caught, and the Qing soldiers didn't stop there, so they sent more soldiers to set up posts in the village. Anyone who left the village had to be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Li Xiucheng.

When he got home, the farmer thought about what to bring to Li Xiucheng and slipped on a clump of wormwood. When he got up, he saw that his hands and knees were stained with green. He immediately took care of it, quickly picked some wormwood and went home, washed it, boiled it, squeezed it into glutinous rice flour and made it into zongzi. Then put the green jiaozi in the grass and mix with the sentry at the village entrance. Li Xiucheng ate the green ball, and felt that the fragrant glutinous rice was not sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing army post and returned to the base camp safely. Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn to be a youth league to defend itself against the enemy. The custom of eating dumplings spread.

Why does Qingming want to eat Youth League?

The last paragraph mentioned the Youth League.

Brief introduction of Tomb-Sweeping Day: Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China. Because the 24 solar terms objectively reflect the changes of temperature, rainfall and phenology throughout the year, ancient working people used them to arrange agricultural activities.

Huainanzi? Astronomical training says: "On the 15th day after the vernal equinox, the bucket refers to B, and the Qingming wind is coming." According to the centenarian question, "everything grows clean and bright at this time."

So it's called Qingming. "Qingming is coming, the temperature is rising, and the rainfall is increasing. It is a good time for spring ploughing and spring planting.

Therefore, there is an agricultural proverb that "before and after Qingming, point melons and plant beans" and "planting trees is not as good as Qingming". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production.

However, Qingming, as a festival, is different from pure solar terms. Solar terms are symbols of phenological changes and seasonal order in China, while festivals contain certain customs and activities, which have certain commemorative significance.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead.

Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some green branches and insert them in front of the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating and drinking.

The poem Qingming written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. "

Write about the special atmosphere in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, according to the solar calendar, between April 4th and 6th every year, it is the season of beautiful spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing (called outing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities.

To this day, the custom of worshipping ancestors and mourning the dead relatives in Tomb-Sweeping Day is still very popular. The origin and legend of Tomb-Sweeping Day: 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. There is a legend about cold food: It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shen Sheng was forced to commit suicide because his concubine set a poisonous plan to kill the prince in order to let her son inherit the throne.

Shen Sheng's younger brother, Zhong Er, went into exile to escape the scourge. During his exile, Zhong Er suffered humiliation.

Most of the courtiers who went out with him went out one after another. Only a few loyal people have been following him.

One of them is called meson push. On one occasion, Zhong Er fainted from hunger.

In order to save Zhong Er, Jiezitui cut a piece of meat from his leg, cooked it with fire and gave it to Zhong Er. Nineteen years later, Zhong Er returned to China and became the monarch, that is, Jin Wengong, one of the famous five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period.

After Jin Wengong came to power, in addition to meson push, he offered many rewards to courtiers who shared his joys and sorrows. Someone defended meson in front of Jin Wengong.

Jin Wengong suddenly remembered the past and felt guilty. He immediately sent someone to ask meson to take the imperial court to be rewarded as an official. However, after several trips, the meson could not be pushed.

Jin Wengong had to please. However, when Jin Wengong came to the meson pusher's house, he saw that the door was closed.

Jiezitui didn't want to see him, and had already been hiding in Mianshan (now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province) behind his mother's back. Jin Wengong asked his body guard to search Mianshan, but he couldn't find it.

So, someone had an idea, saying, it is better to let Yamakaji go, set fire on three sides, leave one side, burn it and the meson will come out. Jin Wengong ordered the promotion of Yamakaji. Unexpectedly, the fire burned for three days and nights. After the fire was put out, the meson was not pushed out after all.

Looking up the mountain, the mother and son were holding a charred willow tree and were dead. Jin Wengong looked at meson push's body and cried for a while. Then I buried the body and found that the back of meson push was blocked by a willow hole, as if there was something.

I took it out and saw that it was a skirt with a bloody poem engraved on it: May your master be clear forever. It is better to be a ghost than to accompany you as an exhorter.

If your master has me in his heart, remember that I often reflect. I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, diligent and honest.

Jin Wengong hid * * * in his sleeve. Then meson tui and his mother were buried under the charred willow tree.

To commemorate Jiexiu, Jin Wengong ordered Mianshan to be changed to Jiexiu Mountain, and an ancestral temple was built on the mountain, and the day when Yamakaji was released was designated as the Cold Food Festival, telling the whole country that it is forbidden to set off fireworks and firecrackers on this day every year and only eat cold food. When he left, he cut a charred willow and made a pair of clogs in the palace. He looked at it every day and sighed, "What a pity."

The "first step" is the name of ancient people's subordinates respecting each other between superiors or peers, which is said to come from it. The following year, Jin Wengong led his ministers to go hiking in plain clothes to show their respect and condolences.

Walking to the grave, I saw the dead old willow tree resurrected, with thousands of green branches dancing in the wind. Jin Wengong looked at the resurrected old willow tree and seemed to see the meson push.

He walked up to him respectfully, lovingly squeezed a branch, braided it into a circle and put it on his head. After the sacrifice, Jin Wengong named the revived old willow "Qingming Willow" and named it Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Later, Jin Wengong often put the sleeve of * * * beside him as a souvenir, urging himself to take power. He is diligent and honest, and strives to govern the country well.

Since then, the people of Jin have been able to live and work in peace and contentment, and they are very nostalgic for Jietui, who has made outstanding contributions and is not looking for wealth. On the day of his death, it is forbidden to set off fireworks in memory of him.

It is also made of flour and jujube paste into the shape of a swallow, strung with willows and inserted in the door to summon his soul. This thing is called "pushing swallows" (also called intermediary pushing). Since then, cold food and Qingming have become grand festivals for the people of the whole country.

Whenever there is cold food, people don't make a fire to cook, but only eat cold food. In the north, people only eat cold food prepared in advance, such as jujube cakes and wheat cakes. In the south, there are mostly green balls and glutinous rice and sugar lotus roots.

What is the origin of Green jiaozi?

Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Li Xiucheng, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased by Qing soldiers. A farmer nearby came forward to help, disguised Li Xiucheng as a farmer and cultivated land with him. Li Xiucheng didn't get caught, and the Qing soldiers didn't stop there, so they sent more soldiers to set up posts in the village. Anyone who left the village had to be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Li Xiucheng.

When he got home, the farmer thought about what to bring to Li Xiucheng and slipped on a clump of wormwood. When he got up, he saw that his hands and knees were stained with green. He immediately had a plan, and quickly picked some wormwood to go home, washed it, cooked it, squeezed it into glutinous rice flour and made it into zongzi.

Then put the green jiaozi in the grass and mix with the sentry at the village entrance. Li Xiucheng ate the green ball, and felt that the fragrant glutinous rice was not sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing army post and returned to the base camp safely. Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn to be a youth league to defend itself against the enemy. The custom of eating dumplings spread.

Extended data:

Self-made Yong ying:

Materials required:

Glutinous rice flour120g, corn starch 30g, bean paste stuffing180g, grass head100g, lard10g, and a little olive oil.

Specific steps:

1. Prepare all the ingredients, as shown in the figure below.

2. Make the green liquid of the skin: the grass head picks off the stalks on the leaves and cleans them.

3. Put about100g of clean water into the pot, then pour the grass leaves into the pot and blanch, then turn off the fire after boiling.

4. Put the scalded grass head into a mill (mixer) and beat it into a pulp.

5. Put the beaten straw liquid into the microwave oven for heating, pour it into the glutinous rice basin and stir it evenly with chopsticks.

6. Add 10g lard (plain oil is ok, but less).

7. Divide the dough and red bean paste into 10 parts respectively, and then round them.

8. Put cold water in the pot, put it in the steamer, and steam the wrapped green meatballs on the steamer for 10 minute.