Because of this meat with fat and lean words, package up will be more delicious, pure lean meat package out of the dumplings and not delicious, because the meat tastes too firewood, and the dumplings are not too delicious, with fat package dumplings, package out of the meat dumplings will be oily, tastes more fragrant.

The legend of the dumplings is that they were born for the sacrifice of Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river, and on that day they sent the dumplings to each other as a souvenir.

As early as in the Spring and Autumn period, with the Mizuko leaves wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped called corn "; bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked called tube dumplings ". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mizuko leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, known as the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings. The same period appeared a small number of wrapped zongzi most popular than pork zongzi.