Sweet dumplings are made of red beans, sago, brown sugar, cane sugar, etc. In addition to the traditional sweeteners can also be added to cinnamon, purple potatoes, egg yolks, sugar, green beans and some other novel materials, not only to increase the sweetness of the dumplings, and the texture of the taste of the fresh, unique flavors, but also in the glutinous rice to add a separate chocolate, a mouthful of bites like a great popping cookies, tasty.

The zongzi, that is, dumplings, commonly known as zongzi, the main material is glutinous rice, fillings, with Ruo leaves (or Shuu leaves, Leucaena leucocephala leaves, etc.) wrapped and become a variety of shapes, the main point of the corner of the shape, the quadrangular shape, 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 to do zongzi, horn-shaped, ancient times in the north called "corner of millet". Due to the different dietary habits of different places, dumplings formed the North and South flavor; from the taste points, dumplings have salty dumplings and sweet dumplings two categories. 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, including Guangdong salted meat zongzi, Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi as a representative.