What holiday diet is green dumplings

The diet of Qingming Festival is green dumplings.

Because the Qingming Festival is to eat green things, you can eat the eyes clear, and the green dumplings are supposed to be made of mugwort green, so, to eat green dumplings. Eating green dumplings is mainly popular in the south of the Yangtze River in the area of the Qingming Festival, Cold Food Festival and other festivals.

It is a kind of green cake made of grass juice, the practice is the first young Ai, small spindly grass, etc. (to do the green dough with wild vegetables generally have three kinds of mud cabbage, ramie leaves, Artemisia absinthium, sage. Mud cabbage blanch color to do turquoise, used to be commonly used, now used has not been seen) into the cauldron, add lime steamed, bleached lime water, kneaded into the glutinous rice flour, made into a turquoise dough.

From the documentary point of view, the initial cold food festival food custom is just the most common wheat congee, and then slowly diversified, the history of the green dumplings only to the existing materials, can be traced back to the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties. By the Ming and Qing dynasties began to be popular in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, but also Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong and other parts of the traditional snacks, usually made and eaten before and after the Qingming Festival.

Modern more seasonal taste, Qingming fruit ancestor worship function gradually thin, and more people used as a spring seasonal snack to eat, but also can be gifts or hospitality to friends and relatives.