Youth League is a traditional snack in the south of the Yangtze River. It is blue, mixed with the juice of wormwood into glutinous rice flour, and then wrapped with bean paste or lotus paste. Not sweet or greasy, the fragrance is light but long.
Tuanzi is a traditional snack eaten by Jiangnan people in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to textual research, the name of the Youth League began in the Tang Dynasty, with a history of 1000 years, and it is steamed in Tomb-Sweeping Day almost every year.
Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Li Xiucheng, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased by Qing soldiers. A farmer nearby came forward to help, disguised Li Xiucheng as a farmer and cultivated land with him. Li Xiucheng didn't get caught, and the Qing soldiers didn't stop there, so they sent more soldiers to set up posts in the village. Anyone who left the village had to be inspected to prevent them from bringing food to Li Xiucheng.