Introduce the composition of the red group

The historical origin of the Red Gang is of great significance in Puxian culture. However, it is difficult to verify its origin, but we can know a thing or two from several notes in the Song Dynasty.

Pujiang Wu's recipe for cooking sand balls: "Sand balls are boiled into red beans or mung beans, wrapped in raw glutinous rice flour, made into big balls, or steamed or boiled in soup." The raw materials and methods of steaming sand balls are the same as those of red balls. Only the red ball was printed as a crown with a big red on the surface. Mr MONG talked about "Chengsha jiaozi" in Dongjiaolou Street, Menglu, Tokyo, which belongs to "after-dinner diet".

At present, there are still sand fillings in northern China, such as Beijing sand bags. The method of "sand" filling the heart is to cook and mash red beans or red beans and add sugar. Nowadays, there are three kinds of red ball stuffing in Puxian: mung bean, glutinous rice and dried sweet potato (glutinous rice is sweet and salty), but the mainstream is mung bean (as the saying goes, "red ball mung bean stuffing"), which can be cooked with mung bean and sugar and kneaded into a ball. This is the same as the sand mass in the lake.

Wu's Dream is classified as "street food" under the chapter "Except Night". The "night market" has sand jiaozi and ten-color sandbags; "All kinds of groceries" have sand balls and are classified as "selling all kinds of children's food along the street". Jiaozi, which has musk bean paste stuffing under the "Fencha Hotel", is classified as "dried fruit". "West Lake Old People's Flourishing Road Food Store" has a sand jiaozi. There is Sha jiaozi in Zhou Mi's Old Story of Wulin Fruit. According to the old name of Hangzhou Wulin, the fruit is a scorpion, pointing people's hearts. Naideon's "Jingcheng Jisheng Food Store" has sand dumplings, which are classified as "night top shelf" with "spring cakes, spinning cakes and sheep fat leek cakes".

The author went on to write: "When people called Brother Lu all over, they became accustomed to it. At first sight, people in remote places find it rare. " The above-mentioned notes of the Song Dynasty show that in Lin 'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province) and Pujiang (now north of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province) in the Southern Song Dynasty, "Sha Tuan" (that is, Cheng Sha Tuan Zi) was a cake bait snack, which was sold in restaurants or markets or peddled along the street. There may be various colors (such as the "ten-color sand ball" mentioned above). Nowadays, Pu Xian market also sells uncolored red ball snacks. Nowadays, in Suzhou and Shanghai, people have the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day being a youth league member. Qing Tuan is also wrapped in bean paste with glutinous rice flour and cooked. When making glutinous rice flour, an edible grass juice is added, and the surface is blue. Compared with the Qingming turtle made by every household in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Pu Xian, the raw materials are the same. The only difference is that the Qingming turtle is turtle-shaped (this is the only difference between it and the red ball).