The zongzi leaves is the Dragon Boat Festival package zongzi one of the essential materials, zongzi ancient known as "corn" "tube zongzong" by zongzi leaves wrapped in glutinous rice or to add accessories to cook and become. Used to wrap zongzi leaves in fact, the north and south with the zongzi leaves are not the same, the south is generally based on Ruo leaves, the north to reed leaves, not only that, zongzi leaves are many kinds of rural areas can be seen everywhere, as the rural people must have some understanding. So what are the dumpling leaves you know?

1, reed leaves

Reed leaves are reed leaves, reed is perennial aquatic or wet tall grass, growing in irrigation ditches, river banks and swamps. Reed whole body can be used as medicine, reed leaves, reed flowers, reed stems, reed roots, asparagus can be used as medicine. China's folklore with reed leaves wrapped in dumplings custom.

2, Ruo leaf

Ruo leaf for Ruo bamboo leaves, mainly long in the south, so the south is often Ruo bamboo leaves as the material wrapped zongzi. Ruo bamboo grow fast, leaf, high yield, rich resources, wide range of uses. Ruo leaves sweet, cold, with heat detoxification, stopping bleeding, swelling effect, the main treatment of epistaxis, epistaxis, blood in urine, urinary gonorrhea unfavorable, laryngeal paralysis, carbuncle and so on. Not only that, Ruo bamboo leaves, bamboo shoots and products, high medicinal value, cancer-specific malignant fluid has the efficacy of prevention and treatment.

3, zongba leaves

Zongba leaves for the lily plant zongba leaf rhizome, year-round harvest, with blood circulation, stasis, bone, pain, clearing heat and detoxification effect. Born in the deep mountains and dense forests, valleys, streams and moist places. Distributed in Yunnan and other places. Zongba leaves main treatment for dysentery, malaria, rheumatism paralysis, kidney deficiency lumbar and leg pain, bruises and sprains, bone fractures, snake bites and so on.

4, mistletoe leaves

In Henan's Lushi County, Xixia, Shaanxi Luonan, Shanyang, Shannan and other counties, people will use the mistletoe leaves package zongzi, called mistletoe leaf zongzi. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the mistletoe leaves ripen and emit a strong aroma, so people go up the mountain to pick them and let them dry in the shade, which removes the raw astringent gas. Then wrapped with millet, cooked into a mistletoe bag. According to "Chinese Tree Journal" records, the tree called "Quercus" or "Quercus", deciduous trees, oval leaves, the edge of the wave-like teeth, growing in the sunny slopes of mountain broad-leaved forests and pine oak forests, deep-rooted, drought-resistant, wind-resistant, anti-smoke, strong resistance to pests and diseases; seed kernels can be Brewing wine, leaves can feed sericulture.

5, lotus leaves

Some areas will take the lotus leaves to wrap dumplings, called lotus leaf dumplings. Lotus leaves wrapped food from a long time ago, the natural fragrance of the lotus leaves make people happy. Lotus leaves are bitter and astringent, flat, to the liver, spleen, stomach, heart meridian. It has the effect of clearing summer heat and dampness, elevating Qing Yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. The results of modern research on Chinese medicine show that lotus leaf has a hypolipidemic effect. Lotus leaf decoction for the treatment of hyperlipidemia.

6, banana leaf

Banana leaf package out of the dumplings, called banana dumplings. Plantain leaves can be used as medicine, cold flavor sweet, light, with heat, diuretic, detoxification effect. Commonly used in fever, heatstroke, foot odor, carbuncle fever, burns.