Prepare a square piece of paper. Fold the long colored paper back and forth in a triangular way to make a 12 isosceles right triangle. Finally, there will be more at the end, and then the extra parts will be cut off, folded again in a quarter and restored. In the other direction, do it in the same way once.

Fold in along the crease, fold all four corners once, and restore origami. Fold the four corners of the origami along the crease. Combine along the origami, and then connect end to end. So a zongzi is folded, and then a zongzi rope is made. Take out the star paper and stick it around the zongzi. Handmade zongzi ends here.

Zongzi, a steamed food made by wrapping glutinous rice with Zongzi leaves, is one of the traditional festival foods in China. Zongzi, as one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural accumulation in China, is widely spread. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular in China for thousands of years, and even spread to East Asian countries.

Zongzi, or Zongzi Zan, is made of glutinous rice and stuffing and wrapped with bamboo leaves (or Hiragi leaves, bamboo leaves, etc.). ) and has various shapes such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Zongzi has a long history, originally as a tribute to ancestors and gods. North and South have different names. Millet is produced in the north, and glutinous rice is made into zongzi, which is angular. In ancient north, it was called "corn millet". In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi.

Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor; From the stuffing point of view, there are dates wrapped in jiaozi in the north; In the south, there are many kinds of fillings, such as mung bean, pork belly, red bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolk and so on. Among them, Guangdong bacon zongzi and Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi are the representatives.