The custom of cooking rice dumplings with mugwort leaves

The zongzi not only shape a lot of different varieties, due to the different flavors around China, mainly sweet, salty two. Sweet water dumplings, red bean dumplings, broad bean dumplings, date dumplings, rose dumplings, melon dumplings, bean paste lard dumplings, date mud lard dumplings and so on. Salty: pork dumplings, ham dumplings, sausage dumplings, shrimp dumplings, meat dumplings, etc., but more pork dumplings. There is also a southern flavor of the Shuusei leaf egg yolk meat dumplings (Hainan), mixed rice dumplings, bean paste dumplings, mushrooms, etc.; there is a head of sweet and a head of salty, a dumpling of two flavors of the "double spelling dumplings". These rice dumplings are different flavors with different rice dumplings.

Guangxi region

Guizhong region like to pack the shape of the pillow pillow dumplings. Guizhong region, a large pillow rice dumplings with half a catty to a catty of rice; and Guilin region like to pack a catty of rice can do six or seven dumplings of small pillow rice dumplings. North of Guilin is like to pack the shape of the dog's head like the dog head zong. In the zongzi wrapping process of ingredients and each has its own characteristics. Such as Guilin people pack zongzi like to add a little alkali powder, in order to cook the zongzi produce alkali flavor; and the whole state people pack zongzi like to soak glutinous rice with straw ash water, with this method of packaged zongzi both moderate alkali flavor, but also has the color of the appetizing.

Guangdong region

The representative varieties of southern rice dumplings. Large, chic appearance, in addition to fresh meat dumplings, bean paste dumplings, there are also salted egg yolk made of egg yolk dumplings, as well as chicken diced, duck diced, barbecued pork, egg yolks, mushrooms, mung bean paste and other mix for the filling of the assorted dumplings.

The dumplings in Chaoshan are unique, and one of them, called "double-cooked" dumplings, is a traditional snack that has long been famous in the Chaoshan area. Steamed rice dumplings is a specialty of Zhaoqing, known as the "king of refreshments", but familiar with the "Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings" but there is a clear difference. General zongzi wrapped in mango leaves, twisted quadrangular or long, while Zhaoqing steamed with the local unique winter leaves wrapped, watercress wrapped, pillow-shaped or Egyptian pyramid.

Hainan region

and the mainland north of the zongzi is different, it is wrapped by the Shuu leaves into a square cone, weighing about half a kilogram or so, glutinous rice can be put into the salted egg yolks, pork, pig's trotters, salted fish, barbecued pork, chicken wings and so on for the filling. The flavor of the rice dumplings is unique. When the dumplings are peeled off, there is the fragrance of Shuusei leaves and glutinous rice, and then there is the fragrance of meat and egg. The aroma is both thick and light, and the flavor is both meat and vegetable, which makes the eater's appetite wide open. Hainan rice dumplings and Dingan black pork rice dumplings, Danzhou Rocky rice dumplings, Chengmai Ruixi rice dumplings are the most famous. In addition, Hainan rice dumplings will be grass ash soaked in water to take the upper layer of clear liquid soaked glutinous rice, made of alkaline water dumplings. Hainan Li also have three-color dumplings and wrapped in coconut leaves dumplings.

Fuzhou

Fuzhou zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi, original alkaline zongzi, peanut alkaline zongzi, etc., is the Dragon Boat Festival worship ancestors on the table necessary staple food. In tying to pay attention to the harmonization, the same size, only a rope into a string tied, generally ten a string, the head and tail of five symmetrical each other.

Taiwan

With a strong Minnan flavor, many varieties of white rice dumplings, green bean dumplings, barbecue pork dumplings, eight treasures dumplings, roasted meat dumplings.

Southern Fujian

Xiamen, Quanzhou's burnt meat dumplings, alkaline water dumplings are famous at home and abroad. Roasted meat dumplings rice must be selected from the best, pork and choose to brine and rotten, plus mushrooms, shrimp, lotus seeds and brine broth, sugar, etc., eaten when dipped in garlic, mustard, spicy, red hot sauce, turnip acid and other condiments, sweet and tender, oily and not greasy. The dumplings in southern Fujian are divided into alkaline dumplings, meat dumplings and bean dumplings. Alkaline rice dumplings are steamed in glutinous rice with lye, both sticky, soft, slippery features, iced with honey or syrup is particularly tasty. Meat dumplings are made of marinated meat, mushrooms, egg yolks, shrimp, dried bamboo shoots, etc. The meat dumplings of Quanzhou Zhonglou Meat Dumpling Shop are the most famous. Bean dumplings are popular in Quanzhou, using September beans mixed with a little salt, with glutinous rice wrapped into, after steaming, bean aroma. Of course, there are also dipped in sugar, that is, white water rice dumplings.

Wuxi

Wuxi's dumplings are less elaborate and less refined than those of Suzhou, which is also a part of the Wudi civilization, both in terms of the way they are wrapped and the ingredients they use. From the method of wrapping zongzi, Wuxi people wrap zongzi more like to wrap small feet zongzi, triangle zongzi. Material, Wuxi common people eat family zongzi is mostly red bean filling, white rice filling and meat zongzi, these fillings are relatively simple to take, preservation time is also long.