2, zongzi, that is, zongzi, is a kind of zongzi, also known as corn, tube zongzi, by zongzi leaves wrapped in glutinous rice steamed and made, is one of the traditional festive food of the Chinese people. Zongzi has appeared as early as before the Spring and Autumn Period, initially used to worship ancestors and gods. To the Jin Dynasty, the zongzi become the Dragon Boat Festival food. The custom of eating rice dumplings, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.
3, folklore eating zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan, the legend is that zongzi is to pay tribute to Qu Yuan cast the river and inherited. As one of the traditional foods with the deepest accumulation of Chinese history and culture, the spread of zongzi is also very far. Japan, Vietnam, and Chinese in Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and other places also have the custom of eating rice dumplings.
4, zongzi variety, from the filling, the north has a package of small jujube Beijing jujube zongzi; the south has green beans, pork, bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolks, and other fillings, which is represented by the Guangdong salted meat zongzi, zongzi in Jiaxing, Zhejiang as a representative. Eat zongzi custom, for thousands of years every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese people have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi. 2012 zongzi was selected for the documentary "tongue on the tip of China" the second episode of the "staple of the story of the" series of food one.