Let's talk about our neighbor Japan first ~! On the fifth day of May every year, the Dragon Boat Festival in China is called Boys' Day in Japan. On this day, they will eat zongzi, hang calamus and drink realgar wine like us. But when it comes to Japanese zongzi, it is very different from ours. People use ground rice flour instead of sticky rice, and the shape of zongzi is different from that of China. They are used to wrapping zongzi into "small hammers". Not only that, but even the taste of Japanese zongzi is "localized", and the fillings are mostly rice with salmon or eel. Opening zongzi leaves and adding soy sauce and mustard to the stuffing are no different from eating sushi.

Vietnam will eat square zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. Locals like to use shrimp, lean meat, duck egg yolk and red beans as stuffing, which is quite Fujian-Guangdong flavor. This kind of four-square zongzi is so big that it can only be wrapped with banana leaves. It's just like an explosive bag, which is unforgettable. In fact, there are two kinds of zongzi in Vietnam: round zongzi and square zongzi. They think that round zongzi represents the sky and square zongzi represents the earth, and heaven and earth are integrated and prosperous. Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival can achieve good weather and good harvests.

The local name of Mexican Zongzi is "Dagmar", which is very similar to that of China Zongzi. It is made of coarse corn as the main ingredient, with sliced meat and pepper, and wrapped in corn leaves or banana leaves. After cooking, it is delicious, sweet, spicy and fragrant.

Among them, the most famous Niangya Zongzi is spread in the Chinese community on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. The filling formula is very complicated, and it is wrapped with pork, mushrooms and winter melon candy. In addition, the "Rempah" fried with various spices and shrimp is finally put in a banlan leaf. Some merchants even use butterfly bean curd (blue flower) to dye glutinous rice blue and blue zongzi. What do you know?

For the "crooked nuts" in China, the Dragon Boat Festival is not only full of strong zongzi flavor, but also full of strong China cultural charm. Many foreign netizens have felt the charm of China culture from the tradition of the Dragon Boat Festival and actively participated in traditional Dragon Boat Festival events such as dragon boat racing, which proves that the motherland is getting stronger and stronger, and people's lives are colorful ~!