清明将至老字号青团热销　成本上涨价格不变

The traditional sweet green rice balls ("Qing-Tuan" in Chinese) become hot sellers in the time-honored snack shops in downtown Shanghai as the Chinese Qingming Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day (Apr. 5 this year) is drawing near.

The average daily sales of Qing-Tuan reach about 50,000 these days and may exceed 100,000 on weekends at "Wang-Jia-Sha", a long-established snack shop on Nanjing Road (West). It is worth mentioning that this year citizens are expected to enjoy the new products of folium artemisiae argyi flavor - kneading crushed Ay Tsao leaves into dough for more refreshing fragrance. It is said that the prices of the sweet green rice balls of all flavors remain the same despite slight rise of the material cost.

Qingming Festival is the 108th day after Winter Solstice. It falls on April 4, 5 or 6.

距离清明还有一个多星期，这几天在市区老字号的点心店里，带有清明时令特色的各式青团早已开始热销。

东 方网记者来到南京西路的王家沙了解到，这几天青团的平均日销量已经达到5万只左右，周末预计可达10万只以上。值得一提的是，今年市民还可以尝到新推出的 艾叶口味青团，直接将艾草叶子打碎融入面团，口感更清香。据了解，今年虽然原料的成本微涨，但是各传统口味的价格还是和往年一样，保持不变。

Editor: Wang Jiaye

Source: english.eastday.com