To commemorate the Spring and Autumn period of the State of Jin, Jie Zi push and the formation of folk festivals and customs of the "Cold Food Festival" (the day before the Qingming Festival) to eat rice dumplings.

In order to commemorate the Spring and Autumn period of the State of Jin and the formation of folk custom of the "Cold Food Festival" (the day before the Qingming Festival) to eat rice dumplings, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival than the rice dumplings earlier. To date, many places still pass the day before Qingming and Qingming food dumplings folk custom.

According to records, as early as in the Spring and Autumn period, with Zizania leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of corn"; bamboo tube with rice sealed and baked, called "tube dumplings". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked corn, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in corn into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkali rice dumplings.

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Types of Rice Dumplings:

The dumplings are not only in many shapes and varieties, but also different flavors around the world, mainly sweet, salty two kinds. Sweet water dumplings, red bean dumplings, broad bean dumplings, date dumplings, rose dumplings, melon dumplings, bean paste lard dumplings, date mud lard dumplings. Salted pork dumplings, ham dumplings, sausage dumplings, shrimp dumplings, diced meat dumplings, etc., but more pork dumplings.

Additionally, there are southern flavors of assorted rice dumplings, bean paste rice dumplings, mushroom rice dumplings, etc., there is a head of sweet and a head of salty, a rice dumplings, two flavors of the "double spelling rice dumplings". These dumplings are to Zao dumplings of different flavors, making the dumplings family colorful.

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