The steps of making zongzi with clay are as follows:

Material preparation: clay.

1. First, squeeze out the main body of Zongzi with white clay, which is roughly triangular in shape, but there should be a little curvature around it, which gives people a rounded feeling at first glance.

2. Wrap a layer of green clay around the main body of Xiaozongzi as zongzi leaves. Be sure to wrap it all around and not cover the front and back sides.

3. Finally, draw cute facial features and pink and tender blush on the zongzi with a pen and pigment, and then make a red tie to surround the whole, and the nifty and small clay zongzi will be finished.

Moral of Zongzi:

1. Zongzi symbolizes reunion and family warmth

Zongzi is usually eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is an important family festival. On this day, people will get together with their families to make and taste zongzi. Zongzi, wrapped in glutinous rice and stuffing, is cooked and steamed on the fire, which symbolizes the unity and warmth of the family. Eating zongzi is not only a kind of food enjoyment, but also a symbol of family reunion.

2. Zongzi also has the meaning of praying and exorcising evil spirits

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the important traditional festivals in China, and it is also a festival with many folklore and fairy tales. According to legend, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits, exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and bless the family's safety and health. In ancient times, people even tied colored threads or mugwort leaves on zongzi to exorcise evil spirits and pray for good luck. Therefore, eating zongzi is also a blessing ceremony.

3. Zongzi also bears the memory and nostalgia for ancestors

According to legend, the Dragon Boat Festival was originally set up to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan was a patriot in ancient China. After he committed suicide in the river, people threw rice into the river to feed the fish and shrimp by cooking zongzi, and drove them away with dragon boats.

4. Zongzi also has the meaning of harvest and celebration

The Dragon Boat Festival is in summer, which is the time of harvest of crops. Eating zongzi also symbolizes celebrating a bumper harvest and thanking the earth for its gifts and natural grace.