Yixing Green Ramie Dumpling Making Technique

Jiangsu
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Yixing green hemp head dumplings making skills, a traditional skills project in the fourth batch of Wuxi city-level representative intangible cultural heritage projects. Every Qingming Festival, there is a custom of steaming green dumplings and worshiping ancestors in the Jiangnan area. Ming Langying's "Qixiu Leigao" once recorded: "The ancients picked tung and poplar leaves during the Cold Food Festival, dyed rice green for sacrifice, and provided yang energy. Now it has changed to blue and white dumplings, which is the meaning." In the Yixing area, it is said that it is to commemorate Taibo, the ancestor of the Wu State. Every Qingming Festival, glutinous rice is ground into powder to make white dumplings, and green wheat leaves are beaten into juice to make green dumplings, commonly known as blue and white dumplings, meaning that Taibo was blue and white during his lifetime. It has been passed down to the present day. Every year on the eve of the Lunar New Year, every household in Yixing will make blue and white dumplings, which has become an important part of the local New Year customs. Green ramie dumplings are made by mixing brome grass juice with glutinous rice, pounding them together, so that the glutinous rice is soaked in the grass juice and becomes mud, turning into emerald green dough, and then wrapping the dough with appropriate amount of red bean paste or jujube paste, and steaming it until cooked. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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