Tomb-Sweeping Day's Custom Youth League

Qing Tuan, also known as Qingming Tuanzi, is a special food in Tomb-Sweeping Day and a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. Green ball is loved by people because of its color like jasper, and its taste is waxy, tough, soft and fat.

The origin of the youth league

The custom of eating Youth League before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than two thousand years ago. According to "Zhou Li", there is a law that "Muduo is forbidden to burn in the fire in mid-spring", so people put out cooking and "eat cold food for three days". During cold food, you should prepare food in advance to satisfy your hunger in cold days, and you don't need to make a fire to cook. The green ball is made of green wormwood (some wheat straw juice) and glutinous rice flour, and then stuffed with bean paste. Can be preserved for 3-5 days, and can meet the needs of people for sacrifice and eating without cooking. Youth League spread to modern times, people should try it early, and its function as a sacrifice is gradually weakening.

In the south, there is a custom of having a reunion dinner. In different places, the names of the Youth League are different, such as Qingming Fruit, Qingming Fruit, and some places are called Qingming Cake, Qingming Ba, Ba, wormwood Cake, and even Bo and Warm Mushroom Bao ... Shanghai.