Zongzi is a theme. What’s interesting is that rice dumplings are salty in the south and sweet in the north, and tofu curd is sweet in the south and salty in the north. It’s true that the soil and water support a person. I have eaten meat rice dumplings from the south, and the difference between them and the rice dumplings from the north lies in the ingredients. So why is this happening?

There are three main shapes of rice dumplings here. Triangle is the most common, but there are also quadrangular and bamboo tube rice dumplings. When making rice dumplings at home, triangular rice dumplings are usually wrapped in reed leaves. The main ingredients include seedless candied dates (formerly jujubes), peanuts, red beans, barley, etc. Although it is not common, it is also available in the market. Buy a few and peel them open, sprinkle them with sugar, they are sweet and delicious. As for the southern meat dumplings, I’m honestly not used to it. Just like someone who has been accustomed to sweet tofu pudding since childhood, and suddenly eats salty tofu pudding, it would be difficult to adapt to it!

The Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are the four traditional festivals in my country. People have attached great importance to them since ancient times. In such important festivals, Zongzi best represents the Dragon Boat Festival culture all over the country. a characteristic. It is said that zongzi was originally a sacrificial offering. Since it is a sacrificial offering, it must be made with more precious local materials. The south has been producing sugar cane since ancient times and is the place where sugar is produced. Sugar is not a rare thing. Compared with pork, it is a more "precious" ingredient. In the north, although there are beets that produce sugar, the yield is insufficient. Compared with sugar and meat, it is In the hearts of ancient northerners, food was a precious ingredient. Then, as rice dumplings for sacrifices, southerners and northerners would use precious ingredients recognized by the local area at that time to make rice dumplings that are salty in the south and sweet in the north, which have been passed down to this day. Do you agree with this statement?

For me, who has a strong taste in Sichuan, this rice dumpling feels tasteless. I forgot to take a photo yesterday. The rice dumpling contains shrimp, meat, and mung beans. Overall, it feels very salty. , also tasteless.

If it is Sichuan rice dumplings, they are numb and fragrant. Sichuan people like to put red beans, peanuts, sausages and bacon, or pork belly in their rice dumplings. There are also rice dumplings with egg yolks, and the rice dumplings are added with Sichuan peppercorns or Sichuan peppercorn powder, which makes them taste numb. I don’t really like meat rice dumplings. I like vegetarian rice dumplings, or just white rice dumplings. They have the fragrance of rice dumpling leaves, which is great.

Whether it is sweet rice dumplings or salty rice dumplings, no matter what shape they are, they are all celebrating our traditional festivals. During the Dragon Boat Festival, don’t forget to hang mugwort on both sides of the door to ward off mosquitoes, drive away the plague, and bless the country and the people!