The origin of the dumplings: this is a great patriotic poet in honor of the Chu period and the birth of the food, Qu Yuan cast Miluo River, the local people in order to prevent fish nibble Qu Yuan's body so thrown into the bamboo tube along the river, the bamboo tube filled with glutinous rice, which is the origin of the dumplings. Literature records: "Qu Yuan to the fifth of May to throw Miluo water, and the Chu people mourn, to this day, to bamboo bamboo storage rice, cast water to sacrifice".

The introduction of zongzi

The zongzi, by the zongzi leaves wrapped in glutinous rice steamed food, is one of the traditional Chinese Han festival food. As one of the traditional foods with the deepest accumulation of Chinese history and culture, zongzi has spread far and wide. The custom of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival has prevailed in China for thousands of years and has spread to Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

The zongzi, that is, zongzi, commonly known as zongzi, the main material is glutinous rice, filling, with Ruo leaves (or Shuu leaves, cambium leaves, etc.) wrapped and become a variety of shapes, mainly in the shape of a sharp angle, the shape of the corner, and so on. Zongzi has a long history, initially used to worship ancestors and gods of the tribute. North and South called different, the northern production of millet, with millet dumplings, horn-shaped, in ancient times in the north called "corner of millet.

The zongzi variety, from the filling point of view, the north has a package of small jujube Beijing jujube zongzi; the south has green beans, pork, bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolks, and other fillings, which is represented by the Guangdong salted meat zongzi, Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi.