Yes, I didn't ask for cooking. Cooking zongzi leaves is because it can clean up the bacteria, dust and other dirty things on zongzi leaves, and make the wrapped zongzi cleaner and more comfortable to eat. It is recommended to cook it, because the cooked leaves are tough. It's better to wrap zongzi.

Can I wrap zongzi when the leaves are not ripe

We can also soak the leaves of Zongzi in warm water for about 30 minutes, which will make the leaves of Zongzi more soft, not easy to break, and it is more convenient to wrap Zongzi.

Zongzi is made of glutinous rice, stuffing, mung beans, red beans and so on. Different places use different fillings. They are wrapped by Indocalamus leaves, Hiragi leaves and ancient cotyledons, and have various shapes, such as sharp corners and quadrangles.

Zongzi has a long history and was originally used to pay homage to ancestors.