qingtuan is a traditional festival food of the Han nationality. It is a very seasonal food for the Spring Festival. Qingming Festival also has the custom of eating qingtuan. Is qingtuan and Mashu the same thing? What's the difference between qingtuan and Mashu? Let's follow sihai.com to have a look.
The difference between green and sweet potato
They are not only different in practice, but also in appearance.
Qingtuan is a traditional characteristic snack in Jiangnan area of China. It is green. It is mixed into glutinous rice flour with the juice of sparrow grass, and then wrapped into bean paste stuffing or lotus seed paste. It is not sweet or greasy, but has a light but long fragrance of green grass. Now in the shop, some of them are made of wheatgrass, some of them are made of wormwood juice, and some of them are made of other green leaf vegetable juice and glutinous rice powder, which are then mashed and filled with bean paste. The function of qingtuan as a sacrifice is increasingly weakened, and it is more used as a spring snack.
Cassava is a special product of Japan. The elastic and sticky food made of glutinous rice flour or other starch is called 'cake', which is pronounced in Japanese (Mo ち / Mochi) and transliterated in Taiwan as' ma 糬 '. It's also called grass cake in the mainland, and it's also called cassava in Zhejiang.