Different places have different eating habits, and the stuffing of salty zongzi will be a little different. Common salty zongzi fillings include fresh meat, mushrooms, lotus seeds, egg yolk, ham, scallops, chestnuts, peanuts, shrimp and so on. Zongzi is a kind of food steamed with glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves, which is one of the traditional festival foods of Han nationality in China.

What's in the salty zongzi? Generally, zongzi can be divided into sweet zongzi and salty zongzi. The salty zongzi are pork zongzi, ham zongzi, sausage zongzi and shrimp zongzi. Common sweet dumplings are white water dumplings, red bean dumplings, broad bean dumplings, jujube dumplings, rose dumplings, melon seeds dumplings, bean paste dumplings and so on. Guangdong Zongzi is a representative variety of southern Zongzi. The shapes of Guangdong Zongzi are pyramid, strip and triangular cone. The main varieties are salted meat dumplings, Jianshui dumplings and red bean paste dumplings, among which salted meat dumplings are the most popular. It is not recommended to eat zongzi cold. After cooling, the starch will age and regrow, and the intermolecular coagulation will be strengthened, which is not easy to be digested by the human body.