Handmade colorful line dumplings wrapped line steps are as follows:

Material preparation: colorful line, handmade paper.

1, will be folded to form the top and bottom of the three sides **** 5 corners of the three-dimensional dumplings shape. You can also put some lavender, mugwort spices in the paper, so it is a fragrant bag.

2, began to wrap the first thread. Choose a top corner to be the front center corner. Hold down the thread with your left hand and wrap it around the first corner with your right hand.

3. Then return to the center and wrap to the second corner.

4. This is the third corner is also wrapped, and so on repeatedly wrapped down.

5, the trick is to use the left hand to turn the dumplings, the right hand pulling the line, a pressure to wrap.

6, the method of changing the line is to connect the line directly, the buckle should be small, do not twist the lumps, the thread should appear at the bottom of the dumplings.

7, see, the red line smoothly shift.

8, all the threads, are tucked inside with clippers or crochet hooks.

9, no matter how many colors, the thickness of the silk thread should be uniform, the hand strength of the winding thread should be the same, the winding thread should be dense, one next to the other, after winding to do finishing. Handmade rice dumplings are ready.

The history of the development of dumplings and Dragon Boat Festival customs:

1, the history of the development

The dumplings are thought to commemorate the warring states period of chu poet qu yuan's food, but this statement is mainly from the legend of the story, so academics on the origins of the dumplings are quite controversial, the argument is different, but there is a point of agreement, that is, dumplings was originally a ritual object.

One theory is that the origin of the dumplings was related to the horns of sacrificial cows, and that the shape of the corn was a simulation of the cow's horns, which led to the description in the Poetry Scripture - Ode to the Zhou - Liangshui, "Killing the time of the peonies, and personalizing the horns of the cows".

2. Duanwu Customs

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, zongzi was an ordinary food with no special meaning, and could be eaten at many times. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, corn was soaked in grass-ash water, and because of the alkali content in the water, it was wrapped in corn in a quadrangular shape with a Mizong leaf and boiled to perfection, which was known as alkaline rice dumplings, and a small number of zongzi were wrapped in stuffing at the same time.

Jin Dynasty when the zongzi was officially as the Dragon Boat Festival food, used as a gift for interaction, and began to appear outside the rice with zongzi; 13 since then, zongzi as a favorite holiday food, in different periods, ethnic groups, regions will have different practices. North and South Dynasty period of zongzi varieties increased, there are "miscellaneous zongzong".