Newbie package dumplings tutorial is as follows:

1, glutinous rice, beans, peanuts, wash, soak one night in advance.

2, dumplings leaves in advance with warm water soak a night, so that when wrapping dumplings, dumplings will become particularly soft.

3, cotton rope wash and spare.

4, prepare a rice dumpling leaves, hand from the end of the rice dumpling leaf one-third of its bend, the rice dumpling leaves folded into a funnel shape, funnel shape to fold it to some solid.

5, glutinous rice seasoned with salt and soy sauce, in the funnel scooped a spoonful of glutinous rice flat, do not fill too full, just put flat can be, be sure to press the glutinous rice firmly, the dumplings will be full.

6, and then use your fingers to squeeze the front of the dumplings on both sides, so that the mouth closed into a triangle, the purpose of easy to cover the rice dumpling leaves.

7, the extra rice dumpling leaves, directly folded to cover the glutinous rice.

8, and hand pressure, and then hand will be the edge of the rice dumpling leaves, finishing out the diamond shape.

9, the excess length of the rice dumpling leaves and then folded.

10, folded, grasp the dumplings.

11, from one end of the beginning of a circle around to the other end of the fastening can be.

12, wrapped dumplings is this way.

Origin of Zongzi

The Zongzi is believed to commemorate the warring states period of chu poet qu yuan's food, but this statement mainly from the legend story, so the academic community on the origin of the Zongzi is quite controversial, the argument is different, but there is a point of agreement, that is, the Zongzi is originally a sacrificial objects.

One theory is that the origin of the dumplings was related to the horns of sacrificial cows, and that the shape of the corn was a simulation of the shape of a cow's horn, which led to the description in the Poetry Scripture - Ode to the Zhou - Liangshui, "Killing the time of the peony and personalized personal computers". During the Western Zhou Dynasty, oxen were sacrificed to the god of the earth and the god of grain as a representative of the highest level of sacrifice, in hopes of a good agricultural harvest. During the Spring and Autumn period, people began to use millet wrapped in Mushroom leaves to make corn instead of oxen for plowing.

Another theory suggests that zongzi is a kind of dragon sacrifice. Wu Jun's "Continuing Qi Harmonious Records" from Liang of the Southern Dynasties records, "Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo water on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and the people of Chu mourned him, and on this day, they used bamboo tubes to store rice and threw it into the water to offer it as a sacrifice." The sacrificial items in the quote are made of bamboo tubes and rice, but also stuffed with neem leaves and wrapped with colored silk, which is similar to today's zongzi in terms of its production and form, and is therefore considered to be the origin of zongzi.