First, prepare materials and tools for making zongzi.

1. glutinous rice: firstly, wash the glutinous rice and soak it for several hours.

2. Zongye: After the glutinous rice is soaked, clean the Zongye and blanch it.

3. Stuffing: Choose appropriate stuffing to match, such as pork belly, duck eggs, mushrooms, mushrooms, vermicelli and so on.

4. Zongzi rope or hemp rope: used to tie the wrapped Zongzi tightly.

5. Other tools: scissors, clips, bowls, etc.

Second, wrap the zongzi into a triangle shape.

1. Overlap two blanched zongzi leaves and form a funnel-shaped mouth.

2. Put a proper amount of glutinous rice into the mouth of zongye to make it triangular.

3. Add stuffing and shape it into a triangle.

Thirdly, wrapping it into a rhombic shape.

1. Fold both sides of Zongzi inward, and seal one side after folding in half.

2. By crossing the two sides, fold them again, and then tie them. Complete the diamond shape.

Fourth, package it into a complete jiaozi shape.

1. Turn over the above-mentioned dumplings wrapped in rhombic shape, repeat the same operation, and wrap them in the shape of sauce dumplings.

2. Finally, clamp the hole with a rope.

V. Expanding knowledge

Zongzi, a steamed food made of glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves, is one of the traditional festival foods in China. As one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural accumulation in China, Zongzi has spread far. 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, one of the traditional China cuisines, has a long history of thousands of years. Besides China, it has been widely inherited and developed in some neighboring countries and regions. As the inheritance of the ancient Chinese culture, it is not only a festival food with special significance, but also known as one of the treasures in Chinese food culture.

The skills of making zongzi vary from place to place, such as salty zongzi in Zhejiang, Suzhou-style zongzi in Jiangsu, sweet zongzi in Fujian, salty zongzi in Guangdong, etc. Each region has its own characteristics and practices.

At the same time, making zongzi has become a very active traditional cultural experience and interaction in social media, which can be said to be an interesting activity that integrates traditional culture and contemporary life.