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What is the meaning of eating green dumplings on Qingming Festival?

Qingming Festival eating qingtuan means qingtuan, the traditional festival food of Han nationality. Eating qingtuan is mainly popular in Jiangnan Qingming Festival, cold food festival and other festivals. It is a kind of green cake made of grass head juice. The method is to put the young wormwood, small Jimu grass, etc. into a large pot, add lime to steam and rot, float away lime water, and knead into the glutinous rice flour to make a green cake. Let's take a look at it with sihai.com.

It is said that one year during the Qingming Festival, Chen Taiping, a powerful general of Li Xiucheng in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was hunted by the Qing army. A farmer from the nearby farmland came forward to help him disguise Chen Taiping as a farmer and ploughed with him. Without catching Chen Taiping, the Qing soldiers did not give up, so they added soldiers to the village and set up posts. Every person who went out of the village should be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Chen Taiping. After returning home, the farmer was thinking about what to bring to Chen Taiping. He stepped on a bush of wormwood and slipped. When he got up, he saw the green color on his hands and knees. He immediately gathered some wormwood and went home to wash, boil and squeeze juice. He kneaded it into glutinous rice flour to make a rice ball. Then put the green regiment in the grass and mix it with the Sentinels at the entrance of the village. Chen Taiping ate the green dumpling and thought it was fragrant, waxy and non sticky. After dark, he bypassed the guard post and returned to the base camp safely. Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping army to learn to be a Youth League to defend itself against the enemy. The custom of eating qingtuan has spread.

But it didn't last long. These green troupes, which were originally favored by people, ended unharmed. Many places didn't have the custom of eating green troupes on Qingming Festival. It's really puzzling.