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How to draw a mind map of green dumplings

The mind map of green dumplings can draw the origin, story, preparation method and nutritional value of green dumplings. You can refer to the picture below.

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The green dumplings are traditional snacks of Jiangnan region, green in color, mixed with the juice of mugwort into the glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped in bean paste filling or lotus seed paste, which is not too sweet and not too greasy, and carries a light but long-lasting fragrance.

The green dumplings are a traditional snack eaten by people in the south of the Yangtze River during the Ching Ming Festival. According to evidence, the green dumplings began in the Tang Dynasty and have a history of more than 1,000 years, and they are almost always steamed at Ching Ming, and in ancient times, they were mainly used as a sacrificial offering.

To make green dumplings, some use pulpy wheatgrass, some use the juice of green wormwood, and there are also other green leafy vegetable juice and glutinous rice flour pounded and then filled with bean paste. The function of the green dumplings as a ritual is fading, and they are more often used as a springtime snack.

According to evidence, the name "green dumplings" began in the Tang Dynasty, and to this day almost every household in Jiangnan steams green dumplings during the Qingming Festival. Though the shape of the green dumplings has remained unchanged for thousands of years, people are now more interested in tasting the new ones, and the function of green dumplings as a ritual is becoming increasingly diluted.

"It is rumored that the hundred and five smoke-free kitchen, red lotus root and green dumplings are sacrificed to the ancestors," the poem "Wu Men Zhi Zhi Zi" said that people eat cold food green dumplings at the Qingming Festival, and red lotus root, green dumplings to ancestors, which said "hundred and five", refers to the winter solstice after 105 days for the cold food. The poem says that people eat cold food and offer red lotus root and green dumplings to ancestors during the Qingming Festival.