1, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar for the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duan Yang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Chongwu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival. Although the name is different, but the customs of the people around the festival is the same. Dragon Boat Festival is our country more than two thousand years of old customs, every day, every family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, hanging moxa calamus, dragon boat races, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, swim a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sacrifice sweet.
2, eat zongzi: Jing Chu people, in the fifth of May cook glutinous rice or steam zongzi cake into the river, in order to worship qu yuan, for fear of fish eat, so use bamboo tube loaded with glutinous rice thrown down, and later gradually use zongzi leaves instead of bamboo tube.
3, select the good reed leaves, old and young suitable, 4-5 cm wide, more than 30 cm long, placed in the pot, the water should be more than the leaf surface. First boil over high heat, and then smother about 45 minutes over moderate heat. Make it soften to increase the elasticity, but also play a role in disinfection and sterilization, starting early leaves brittle, starting late waste.
4, after starting the pot in cold water to wash, cut off the petiole spare. Bundle to Demoiselle (to be cooked with reed leaves) for the top, now most of the nylon thread or snakeskin bag split into a single strand.
5, package take 3-4 pieces of reed leaves, in the big head nest into a funnel shape. The big head as far as possible to push forward, so that it is tight, not leakage of rice. On the rice (can be added according to personal taste dates, salted meat, raisins, etc.) after the right hand middle finger, ring finger separated from the clamp, thumb from back to front push pressure, make it tight, flat. The left thumb, forefinger smooth funnel mouth inward into an equilateral triangle, and then push the thumb over the leaf cover on the triangle, and the left thumb, forefinger smooth funnel mouth collection pinch tight, and then the remaining tail handle along the corners of the paste fold. And then take the line bundling, tightness should be moderate, too tight, dumplings hard, poor taste, and even pinch raw; too loose, no mouth strength, and even will be scattered. Finally, cut off the excess leaf end can be.
6, and then it is boiled, the water should be not over all the dumplings, is also a large fire boil, and then cook over 45 minutes with the fire. Put in the pot to be naturally cooled before the pot. Delicious dumplings on the success.
7, there may be people to say: this is the thing of the ladies, how do you also --? I just like to do it yet, no way.
8, when I'm about to finish typing this word game, already from the kitchen wafted a faint smell, this is the so-called sense of accomplishment, the last sentence is considered lyrical.