Zongzi is steamed with glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves, which is one of the traditional festival foods of the Chinese nation. In 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu, faced the pain of national subjugation. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, he threw himself into the river with grief and indignation. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from hurting his health, people put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to attract fish and shrimp to eat. In the future, on this day, people will throw rice into the river with bamboo tubes to pay homage to Qu Yuan, which is the origin of the earliest zongzi in our country. During the Jianwu period in the Han Dynasty, people made "corn millet" with "shrew leaves wrapped in sh incarnation", which was passed down from generation to generation and gradually developed into the Dragon Boat Festival food in China.

Zongzi, as one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural accumulation in China, is widely spread. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular for thousands of years and spread to South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.