Where is the Youth League A major?

Youth League is a specialty in Jiangnan area.

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. Not sweet or greasy, the fragrance is light but long.

Qingyuan Festival is a traditional snack that people in the south of the Yangtze River eat in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to textual research, the name of the Youth League began in the Tang Dynasty with a history of about 1000 years. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, Qing Tuan was almost always steamed. In ancient times, people made green balls mainly as sacrifices. Although the Youth League has been circulated for thousands of years, its shape has not changed, but its function as a sacrifice has gradually faded and it has become a seasonal snack.

To make green meatballs, some use wheat straw, some use green wormwood leaf juice, and some use other green leafy vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour to mash and then make them with bean paste. The function of Qing Tuan as a sacrifice is weakening day by day, and more people regard it as a spring outing snack.

According to research, the name of "Youth League" began in the Tang Dynasty. Up to now, every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, almost every household in the south of the Yangtze River steamed youth league. Although the shape of the Youth League has remained unchanged for thousands of years, people should try something new now, and the function of the Youth League as a sacrifice is gradually weakening.

According to legend, the Tenth Five-Year Plan prohibits cooking, and the Red Lotus Youth League is sacrificed first. This poem "Wu Men Zhi Zhu Ci" says that people eat cold dumplings in Tomb-Sweeping Day and worship their ancestors with red lotus roots and dumplings. The "Five-Year Plan" means that the solstice after 105 is cold food. In the Qing Dynasty, Lu gave a clearer explanation to Youth League: "Youth League cooked lotus roots are sold in the market, and it is ok to eat them cold."

Yuan Mei, a literary gourmet in the Qing Dynasty, recorded in detail the making of the Youth League: "Water grass as juice, powder as a group, and the color is like jasper." Qing Tuan, also called Ai Tuan, is a kind of green cake made of grass-head juice, some of which are made of green mugwort leaves, some of which are made of bromegrass juice and glutinous rice. The green juice and rice flour are mixed together, and then stuffed with stuffing such as bean paste and jujube paste, with reed leaves at the bottom, and placed in a steamer.

When steaming, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, so that jiaozi will be green, tender, sweet, fragrant and refreshing, with a breath of spring from color to taste. It is a traditional snack of southerners in Qingming and Cold Food Festival.