Handmade package dumplings folding method is as follows:

1, will be a square piece of paper on each side to the center line folded.

2, open it and fold two triangles out of both sides, then fold it back in half.

3. Next, fold each triangle toward the center and tuck it into the paper below.

4. Next, fold into the center square like this.

5, a *** to prepare three, the color can be according to their own preferences.

6, insert one corner inside another. Then another one also inserted, two or three inserted together.

7, the other side is also the same splicing, a simple and beautiful dumplings are completed. Initially used to pay tribute to ancestors and gods, legend has it that the zongzi were handed down to honor Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river.

The zongzi variety, from the filling, the north has a package of small jujube Beijing jujube zongzi; the south has mung beans, pork number oak, bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolks, and other fillings, which to Guangdong salted meat zongzong, zongzong of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, as a representative of the zongzi. 2012 zongzong was selected for the documentary film "Tongue on the tip of the China" the second episode of the "staple of the story of the" series of food, one of the food.

Because of the different regions, from the material to the zongzi leaves, there is a big difference, even the shape of the package, there is also a big difference between Huibi Xun the same, such as the early people prevailed in the cow's horns to sacrifice to the sky, so the zongzi of the Han and Jin dynasties, more than to do before the horn into the shape of this as one of the ancestor worship supplies. In addition, there are generally triangular, quadrangular, pointed triangular, square, long and other shapes.