Zongzi is eaten on Dragon Boat Festival in memory of the great poet Qu Yuan. In fact, according to experts' research, Zongzi is just a common folk food. At first, eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival was not fixed. It is said that eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is a sacrifice to Qu Yuan, which was formed by later generations and only reflects the wishes of the people.
According to legend, in 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu, faced the pain of national subjugation. On May 5th, he threw a big stone into Guluo River with grief and indignation. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his body, people throw rice into the river with bamboo tubes. In the future, people will put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to pay homage to Qu Yuan. This is the origin of China's earliest zongzi-"tube zongzi".
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Types of zongzi:
Zongzi not only has many shapes and varieties, but also has different tastes in different places, mainly sweet and salty. Sweet dumplings include white dumplings, red bean dumplings, broad bean dumplings, red date dumplings, rose dumplings, melon seeds dumplings, red bean paste lard dumplings, jujube paste lard dumplings and so on.
There are pork jiaozi, ham jiaozi, sausage jiaozi, shrimp dumplings, diced pork jiaozi and so on, but pork jiaozi is more common. In addition, there are assorted zongzi, red bean paste zongzi and mushroom zongzi. Southern flavor, and a sweet and salty "double dumplings". These zongzi have different tastes, which makes the zongzi family colorful.
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