Every year on May 5 is China's traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate China's great patriotic poet Qu Yuan in ancient times, and set up a festival. Then the prepared glutinous rice washed with water and then soaked in water. The next step is to start making zongzi, the zongzi leaves into a variety of shapes, and then into the glutinous rice. Then put a date in the center of the glutinous rice. The first thing you need to do is to wrap the rope around it and make sure it's not too tight and not too loose.

The south eat meat dumplings, the north eat red dates brown, red bean brown. My family in the northernmost part of Shanxi, where reed leaves do not grow, the yellow rice steamed into a cold cake, sprinkled with some sugar. In recent years the transportation is developed, there is also a large vacuum-packed brown leaves, people also learn from the short video of jitterbug headlines packaged rice dumplings, although I am this side of Shantou, Guangdong, we are here in the Dragon Boat Festival customs, in addition to many places are the same as the Dragon Boat Race and eat rice dumplings, will also do a special kind of dumplings, I believe that many people have not seen and have not heard of it, we are here to call gardenia rice dumplings, also known as the " machine kuey teow". The finished product is brown and very sticky.

Duanwu Festival to eat rice dumplings is the custom handed down for thousands of years, with the standard of living continues to improve, rice dumplings tastes are also varied. Not only to pack zongzi, eat zongzi, and buy mugwort, incense bags and other customs, more rich Dragon Boat Festival rich cultural connotations. Generally are glutinous rice dumplings, there are a variety of different fillings. There are red beans, red dates, honey dates, peanuts. There are also meat dumplings with pork on the inside.

The process of making triangular rice dumplings is divided into: picking rice dumpling leaves, picking palm leaves for tying strings, cooking rice dumpling leaves, putting prepared glutinous rice ingredients, making and cooking rice dumplings. We here in the Dragon Boat Festival day to catch the medicine street, the dumplings are their own package, green beans and pork glutinous rice package of dumplings, the street that day, a sea of people, quite lively. The reason why this kind of dumplings is golden yellow, is with the juice of grass ash soaked glutinous rice overnight, the next day directly packaged boiled. Grass ash contains natural alkali, so the golden rice dumplings have a special fragrance. Add a little sugar to eat a different flavor.