1, first prepare a zongzi leaf, fold the middle of the zongzi leaf and fold it into a funnel shape.
2. At the bottom of the funnel, put a diced sausage, and then add a proper amount of prepared glutinous rice into it. The glutinous rice must be pressed firmly, so that the cooked dumplings will be full.
3. Then pinch both sides of the zongzi leaves with your hands, and then fold the zongzi leaves in half to cover the glutinous rice.
4. Fold the remaining leaves of Zongzi in half, prepare a string, and bind the string around the leaves, so that a four-corner Zongzi is wrapped.
Eating zongzi is a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Zongzi was a common food in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had no special meaning. It was often edible. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet was soaked in plant ash water, and because the water contained alkali, it was wrapped in leaves to form a quadrangle and cooked, so it was called alkaline water zongzi. At the same time, a small amount of stuffed zongzi appeared. In the Jin Dynasty, zongzi was officially used as food for the Dragon Boat Festival and as a gift for communication, and began to appear as a brown additive other than rice; Since then, as people's favorite holiday food, Zongzi has different practices in different periods, nationalities and regions.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the variety of zongzi increased, and there were "miscellaneous zongzi". In the Tang Dynasty, the shape of zongzi had appeared as a cone and a diamond, and it became a delicious food in the market during festivals and folk seasons. It was very fashionable to eat zongzi in Song Dynasty, and there were "Ai Xiang Zongzi" and "candied Zongzi" with dates, chestnuts and persimmons as fillings.
In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, zongzi stuffing was more abundant, and there were zongzi wrapped in bamboo leaves and reed leaves. In the Qing dynasty, there was ham zongzi, which became auspicious food, meaning "must be in the middle"; In 20 10, the making skills of zongzi were selected as national intangible cultural heritage.