The History of Aizba (Ai Mo)

Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taiping Chen, the general of Li Xiucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased by Qing soldiers. A nearby farmer came forward to help, disguised Taiping Chen as a farmer and farmed with him. Taiping Chen was not caught, and the Qing soldiers didn't stop there, so they sent more soldiers to set up posts in the village, and everyone who left the village had to be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Taiping Chen. When he got home, the farmer slipped on a clump of wormwood and was thinking about what to bring to Taiping Chen. When he got up, he saw that his hands and knees were stained with green. He immediately took care of it, quickly picked some wormwood and went home, washed it, boiled it, squeezed it into glutinous rice flour and made it into zongzi. Then put the green jiaozi in the grass and mix with the sentry at the village entrance. Taiping Chen ate this green ball and felt fragrant, waxy and non-sticky. After dark, he bypassed the Qing army 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 dumplings spread.