The zongzi is the Dragon Boat Festival festival food, legend has it that it was invented for the sacrifice of Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river, because of the different dietary habits of different places, the zongzi formed the North and South flavors, so the zongzi varieties are also more. Among the more famous types of zongzi are as follows:

1, northern zongzi, northern zongzi representative varieties of Beijing zongzi head larger, for oblique quadrangular or triangular.

At present, most of the market supply is glutinous rice dumplings. In the countryside, it is still customary to eat rhubarb rice dumplings. Sticky and fragrant, distinctive flavor, the northern rice dumplings are mostly filled with jujube, bean paste, a few also use dried fruit as filling.

2, Guangdong dumplings, the representative varieties of southern dumplings, Guangdong dumplings and Beijing dumplings on the contrary, smaller, chic shape, square front, behind a sharp corner, like a cone. Cantonese dumplings are the richest of all dumplings in terms of ingredients and take the longest to make. Salted dumplings are filled with ham, salted meat, egg yolk, roast chicken, barbecued pork, roast duck, chestnuts, mushrooms, shrimp, etc. Sweet dumplings are filled with lotus seed paste, mung bean paste and other ingredients. Sweet fillings are lotus seed paste, green bean paste, red bean paste, chestnut paste, date paste, walnut, etc., which is filled with diced chicken, duck, barbecued pork, mushrooms, mung beans and other concoctions for the filling of the assorted dumplings, the flavor is better.

3, Zhejiang Huzhou zongzi, soft rice, divided into salty, sweet two kinds. Salty fresh pork soaked in soy sauce, each dumpling with fat and lean meat each piece of filling. Sweet dumplings are filled with date paste or bean paste, to which a piece of lard is added. After steaming, the lard is incorporated into the bean paste, making it very smooth and flavorful. The fillings are chosen by specialists, and there are eight treasures zongzi, chicken zongzi, bean paste zongzi, fresh meat zongzi and so on, each with its own characteristics. There are many other kinds of rice dumplings in different places, but most of them are sweet and salty. The sweet flavor has white water dumplings, red bean dumplings, broad bean dumplings, date dumplings, rose dumplings, melon kernel dumplings, lard dumplings with bean paste, lard dumplings with date paste, and so on. Savory flavor has pork rice dumplings, ham rice dumplings, sausage rice dumplings, shrimp rice dumplings, diced meat rice dumplings, etc., but to pork rice dumplings more. In addition, there are southern flavors of assorted rice dumplings, bean paste rice dumplings, mushroom rice dumplings, etc., there is a head of sweet and a head of salty, a rice dumplings, two flavors of the "double spelling rice dumplings", these rice dumplings are to ZuoZhong different flavors, make the rice dumplings family of different colors.