The legend of Ababa

Ai Ye Baba, also known as chant Baba, is a traditional Han snack, which is usually eaten at the Cold Food Festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Because mugwort leaves are very similar to mugwort leaves, also called mugwort leaves, there may be a place called mugwort Baba. Artemisia argyi is very small, and its smell is actually much lighter than Artemisia argyi.

There is a cold food in Qingming, that is, mugwort Baba. The appearance is dark green, and the stuffing inside is either sweet glutinous rice cake made of bean paste or broken flowers, or pickled with broken vegetable leaves. You can smell the fragrance of mugwort leaves at the entrance. Eating it can dispel wind and evil spirits. In Daye area, wormwood is used as rice chaff and wormwood chaff is also used.

There is a cold food in Qingming, called Artemisia argyi Baba, which has a dark green appearance and is filled with sweet glutinous rice cakes made of bean paste or broken flowers, as well as broken vegetable leaves.

Aiye Baba

Make it salty, and you can smell the fragrance of wormwood leaves as soon as you enter. Eating it can dispel wind and evil spirits.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi, also known as Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Folium Artemisiae Argyi, is bitter, pungent and warm in nature and enters the spleen, liver and kidney meridians. It can dispel cold, remove dampness, warm channels and stop bleeding. It is suitable for deficiency-cold bleeding and abdominal pain, and has obvious curative effect on women's deficiency-cold menoxenia, abdominal pain and metrorrhagia. It is a gynecological medicine. In Chinese traditional folk medicine, Artemisia argyi has been used to prevent plague for thousands of years, and it is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine that is easy to use local materials. Modern medical pharmacological research shows that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is also a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral drug, which can inhibit and kill a variety of viruses and bacteria, relieve asthma, relieve cough, eliminate phlegm, stop bleeding, anticoagulate, calm down, prevent allergies, protect the liver and gallbladder, and have certain preventive and therapeutic effects on respiratory diseases. Moxibustion made of Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of dredging channels and collaterals, dispelling yin and cold, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass.

In addition to pharmacological effects, Folium Artemisiae Argyi is also a widely used food. In the vast south and southwest of China, there has always been the custom of eating pasta, soup and dishes made of mugwort leaves. The most typical folk food is Ai Ye Baba, which is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi and parts of Hunan and Guizhou.