Historical records about the dumplings, began in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The dumplings at that time were wrapped in the shape of a cow's horn and were called "corn". The Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Chu's "Records of Customs and Excavations" says that this food is eaten every year at the summer solstice and the Dragon Boat Festival. According to ancient records, the summer solstice with millet and chicken sacrifices to ancestors, as early as in Yin, Zhou. Later, the Dragon Boat Festival with dumplings to worship Qu Yuan, but is the evolution and development of the original custom.

Today, zongzi has developed into a year-round folk flavor cuisine. Due to the different dietary habits of different places, dumplings to form the difference between the North and South flavor, but one of the famous dragon boat dumplings of the production of Zhengzhou in the Central Plains, but also the South and the North, rich in flavor, such as pineapple rice dumplings, black glutinous peanut rice dumplings, mung bean paste rice dumplings, chestnut rice dumplings and so on, etc., etc..

Duanwu Festival in the historical development of the evolution of a variety of folklore as a whole, the country due to the different regional cultures and the existence of customary content or details of the differences.

The Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include stealing dragon boats, sacrificing to the dragon, picking herbs, hanging moxa and calamus, worshipping the gods and ancestors, washing herbal water, playing the water at noon, dipping the dragon boat water, eating rice dumplings, releasing the paper kite, looking at the dragon boat, tying the five-color silk thread, fumigating Cangzhu, wearing a scented bag and so on.

Pick the dragon boat activities in southern China along the coast is very prevalent, spread abroad by the people of various countries and the formation of international competitions. Duanwu food dumplings of the custom, since ancient times in all parts of China prevailed, has become the Chinese nation's greatest influence, the most extensive coverage of one of the folk dietary practices.