"Cold food youth league shop, Yang Liuzhi low spring. Wine is fragrant, guests are waiting, and songs and poems are passed down. " This is a well-known poem written by Bai Juyi 1000, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, who passed by a shop selling youth leagues more than 0.000 years ago and saw the moving scenery in spring. It can be seen that dumplings, a traditional seasonal food, have been associated with spring since ancient times.
According to legend, one hundred and fifty is forbidden to cook at the age of five, and the red lotus root youth group is sacrificed first. This poem "Wu Men Zhi Zhu Ci" is about people eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day and offering red lotus roots and green balls to their ancestors. In the Qing Dynasty, Lu gave a clearer explanation to Youth League: "Youth League cooked lotus roots are sold in the market and can be eaten cold. "
Jiangnan people call eating green meatballs for the first time in spring "tasting spring", which means tasting the taste of spring. It seems that only by eating a few green balls can we really enter spring.
Tomb-Sweeping Day has had the custom of having a reunion dinner since ancient times. Qing Tuan, also known as Ai Tuanzi, was formerly called "Fentuan". Because of its bluish green color, it is named Youth League. The Youth League has different names in different places.
Shanghai and Ningbo are called Youth League Committee, Suzhou is called Youth League Committee, Hangzhou is called Youth League Committee or Qingming League, Nanjing is called Qingming League or Spring Festival couplets, Wenzhou is called Qingming Cake, and Jinhua is called Qingming Fruit (Crescent Moon is called Qingming jiaozi).