2. Usually, when making red bean zongzi, it is not necessary to cook the red beans in advance. Usually, the ingredients used to wrap the zongzi are raw, so we just need to put the red beans in water to soak them in advance.

3. But if we don't soak the red beans used to wrap zongzi in advance, we can put the red beans in the water and cook them for about half an hour before we start wrapping zongzi, mainly to cook them.