1. The ingredients for making zongzi are glutinous rice, red dates, sugar, preserved fruit, red bean paste and plums. Zongzi has a variety of fillings, mostly red dates and bean paste in the north and fresh meat and egg yolk in the south. Zongzi in the north is small, mostly in the shape of oblique quadrangles, with a sweet taste, while Zongzi in the south is mainly salty.

2. Guangdong zongzi. The representative varieties of South Zongzi are fresh meat Zongzi and red bean paste Zongzi, egg yolk Zongzi made of salted egg yolk, and assorted Zongzi with diced chicken, diced duck, barbecued pork, egg yolk, mushrooms and mung bean paste as fillings.