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How to describe the delicacy of zongzi?

As far as food is concerned, zongzi is a traditional food in China. Besides its rich cultural connotation, it also reflects the wisdom of our people. Zongzi appeared before the Spring and Autumn Period. It is mainly made of glutinous rice, wrapped with Ruo leaves or Hiragi leaves, and cooked to make the leaves fragrant in rice. You can also add sweet and salty fillings, which are fragrant and triangular in shape and more eye-catching.

Zongzi is a traditional food with the deepest cultural accumulation in the history of China. The main raw material of zongzi is glutinous rice, which contains high-quality starch, B vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids, cellulose and other nutrients. The glutinous rice contains little protein and lacks vitamin A and calcium, so people add some fillings such as red dates, bean paste, candied dates and mung beans to make up for malnutrition.

Common zongzi are red dates, peanuts, red bean paste, egg yolk and pork belly fillings, and the nutritional value of all kinds of zongzi fillings is different, which also shows that the making of zongzi is a kind of wisdom of the ancients. Since ancient times, people have paid attention to the collocation of food and nutrition.

Zongzi has a lot of dietotherapy value, which can tonify the middle energizer, warm the stomach, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. It can also be used for yin deficiency of lung and kidney.