What's the name of the green cake Tomb-Sweeping Day ate? Qingming dumplings are introduced.

1. The green cake eaten by Tomb-Sweeping Day is called Qingming cake, also called Youth League. It's the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day's snacks. Green balls are made by mixing the juice of wormwood and glutinous rice flour.

Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is blue, mixed with wormwood juice into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped with bean paste or lotus seed paste. It is not sweet or greasy, and has a faint but long grass fragrance.

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 has a history of 1000 years since the Tang Dynasty. In ancient times, people made Qing Tuan, which was mainly used for sacrifice. Although the Youth League has been circulated for thousands of years and its shape has not changed, its function as a sacrifice has gradually faded and it has become a seasonal snack.

4. Now we are making 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 a spring outing snack.

5, the green ball is green as jade, soft and fragrant, fat but not astringent, and it is a natural green healthy snack. After steaming, the soft skin is green, the bean paste stuffing is sweet but not greasy, and it has a faint aroma of wormwood, which is delicious.