How to make zongzi with clay?

The method for make zongzi with clay is as follows:

I. Process

1. Let's make a small steamer of zongzi first, and make a disc with brown soil.

2. Press out vertical stripes with tools.

3. Make the edge of the small cage with brown clay, so that the small cage is finished.

4. First make a zongzi out of green mud, which is a triangular zongzi.

5. Then make a zongzi leaf with green mud and put it in a steamer.

6. Make a triangular dumpling with white mud, and make a round yolk with yellow mud and stick it on it.

7. Make another zongzi, wrap it up with thin brown clay strips as a rope, and put it in a steamer, so a cage of zongzi is ready!

Second, Dragon Boat Festival.

1, Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival. , is a traditional folk festival in China. Together with Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is called the four traditional festivals in China.

2. Dragon Boat Festival is also the first world heritage festival in China. Rowing dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been circulating in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Third, folk customs.

1, Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. This is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also different customs have been observed in different places.

2. The Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer is an auspicious day for flying dragons, and the Dragon Boat Festival in the form of dragon boat picking is an important theme of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is still popular in the southern coastal areas of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs are derived from numbers of yin and yang and seasons. According to the number of yin and yang, noon is yang, and heavy noon is the most yang.

3. The ancients regarded afternoon and three o'clock in the afternoon as extremely sunny, which was the best way to dispel yin and evil. The ancients also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an auspicious year, which coincided with the summer solstice, and called it "Dragon Boat Festival", which is said to be "once in a blue moon". Summer is a season of struggle between yin and yang. Yang goes up and Yin is forced down. In the afternoon, the yang is healthy and the yin is afraid of evil.

Summer is also the season to drive away the plague. In midsummer, the Dragon Boat Festival is full of yang, and everything is thriving at this time. It is the strongest day of Chinese herbal medicine in a year, and the herbs collected during the Dragon Boat Festival are the most effective in eliminating diseases and epidemic prevention.

5. Due to the magical characteristics of herbs on this day, many Dragon Boat Festival customs handed down from ancient times have the contents of eliminating yin evil, eliminating diseases and preventing epidemic, such as hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water, tying five-color silk thread to ward off evil spirits, washing herbal water, smoking Rhizoma Atractylodis to eliminate diseases and preventing epidemic, etc.