Fresh rice dumpling leaves can be directly wrapped rice dumplings, but it is recommended to blanch, because blanched rice dumpling leaves have a better flexibility, can be wrapped in the time of rice dumplings, more convenient. And fresh leaves on the existence of some dust, bacteria, will be blanched leaves can be killed on the leaves of the dumplings on the bacteria, play sterilization, kill the effect of poison.

Zongzi

Zongzi, steamed food made of glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves, is one of the traditional festive foods of the Han Chinese.

The zongzi come in a wide variety of varieties, from fillings such as Beijing jujube zongzi wrapped with small jujubes in the north, to mung beans, five-flower meat, bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolks, and many other fillings in the south.

The zongzi as China's history and culture of the deepest accumulation of traditional food, the spread is also very far, the Dragon Boat Festival food zongzi custom, for thousands of years, in China, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.