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Where is the custom of eating rice dumplings on New Year's Day

Eating dumplings on New Year's Day is a custom of the Zhuang people in Guangxi.

Northern people eat dumplings on New Year's Eve, southern people eat rice cakes on New Year's Eve, while Zhuang people eat dumplings on New Year's Eve. Zongzi in the eyes of the Zhuang compatriots is "noble" food, called "rice dumplings", used to worship ancestors or entertain guests. Zhuang people eat rice dumplings have been thousands of years of history, usually a pot of rice dumplings to spend two days, but this rice dumplings and we usually eat rice dumplings can not be the same.