1. Eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in my country. Zongzi are mainly made of Zong leaves, Ruo leaves or wild reed leaves, collectively called Zong leaves. The traditional form of rice dumplings is triangular, and they are usually named according to their inner flesh.

2. Zongzi comes in many shapes, reflecting different regional characteristics. Zongzi not only come in many shapes and varieties, but also have different flavors in different parts of China, with sweet and salty being the main types. The sweet flavors include white water rice dumplings, red bean rice dumplings, broad bean rice dumplings, date rice dumplings, rose rice dumplings, melon kernel rice dumplings, bean paste lard rice dumplings, date mud lard rice dumplings, etc. Savory flavors include: pork rice dumplings, ham rice dumplings, sausage rice dumplings, shrimp rice dumplings, diced meat rice dumplings, etc., but pork rice dumplings are more common.

3. There are also southern-style rice dumplings with egg yolk and meat (Hainan), assorted rice dumplings, bean paste rice dumplings, mushrooms, etc.; there are also "double rice dumplings" with one end sweet and the other salty, one rice dumpling with two flavors. These rice dumplings are all served with different flavors. Extended information

Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival created by the ancestors of Baiyue in ancient times to worship their ancestors. Because it is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th, later people also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; there are also sayings to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui.

In general, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancestors of Baiyue in the south who chose the auspicious day of "Dragon Ascension" to worship the Dragon Ancestor. It was infused with the summer custom of "curing diseases and preventing epidemics" and regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an "evil month and evil day" "It originated from the Northern Central Plains, with commemorative contents commemorating Qu Yuan and other historical figures. The formation of Dragon Boat Festival customs can be said to be the product of the fusion of northern and southern customs.

The Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists; since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday.

In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage, making the Dragon Boat Festival the first Chinese festival to be selected as a world intangible cultural heritage.

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