Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. According to legend, the Dragon Boat Festival was set up to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu. Thousands of years later, the Dragon Boat Festival has also become a traditional festival in China. However, Dragon Boat Festival is different from Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival. Dragon Boat Festival means to worship ancestors, so it is more serious and solemn.
As for the traditional activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, I believe everyone in China knows that besides rowing dragon boats and hanging wormwood, the most popular ones are making dumplings and eating them. In ancient times, eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival meant praying for blessings, finding children and eliminating disasters. Now people no longer pay attention to these things, and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is purely a sense of ceremony.
I believe that wrapping zongzi with corn leaves and corn shells may be a bit strange to many friends in the south. But it's normal for friends in the north. You know, wrapping zongzi with corn leaves and corn shells is one of the most commonly used zongzi leaves in the north. Moreover, the corn leaves and corn shells are not only tough, but also the wrapped dumplings have the smell of corn, which can be said to be a good material for wrapping dumplings.
The Indocalamus leaves I know well belong to Indocalamus, a plant similar to bamboo. However, the leaves of Indocalamus are much larger than ordinary bamboo leaves, and people find that the leaves of this plant are very suitable for making zongzi. Not only the wrapped zongzi has the fragrance of plants, but also the leaves have a good antiseptic effect. So in the south, people usually like to wrap zongzi with bamboo leaves.
Zongzi wrapped in bamboo shoots and shells is rare now. The so-called bamboo shell means that in spring, bamboo shoots grow out and become bamboo. Moreover, the shells of these bamboo shoots will slowly and naturally fall off, so people will consciously collect these bamboo shoots. Take out these sun-dried bamboo shoots and soak them for a few hours during the Dragon Boat Festival, and then use them to wrap zongzi. Compared with corn leaves, Indocalamus leaves, reed leaves and lotus leaves.