Novice jiaozi tutorial video

The novice package jiaozi tutorial is as follows:

1, glutinous rice, beans and peanuts, washed and soaked for one night in advance.

2. Soak the leaves in warm water for one night in advance, so that the leaves will become particularly soft when wrapping jiaozi.

3. Wash the cotton rope for later use.

4. Prepare a zongzi leaf, bend it from the third end of the zongzi leaf by hand, and fold the zongzi leaf into a funnel shape, which should be more stable.

5. Season glutinous rice with salt and soy sauce. Scoop a spoonful of glutinous rice in the funnel and spread it flat. Don't pack it too full. Just keep it flat. Be sure to compact the glutinous rice, so that jiaozi will be full.

6. Squeeze both sides of the front end of Zongzi with your fingers, so that the mouth is a harvest triangle, which is convenient for wrapping leaves.

7. The extra leaves are directly folded and covered with glutinous rice.

8. Press tightly with your hands, and then press the edge of the leaves with your hands to sort out the shape of the water chestnut.

9. Fold the extra leaves in half.

10, fold it up and hold the zongzi tightly.

1 1, just start winding at one end and tie at the other.

12, the wrapped zongzi is like this.

The origin of zongzi

Zongzi is considered as a food to commemorate Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State during the Warring States Period, but this view mainly comes from legends and stories. Therefore, the academic circles have different opinions on the origin of Zongzi, but they all agree that Zongzi is a kind of sacrifice.

One view is that the origin of Zongzi is related to the sacrificial horn, and the shape of the horn millet is a simulation of the diagonal shape, so there is a description in The Book of Songs, Zhou Song and Liang Zhen that "you should shoot the horn when you kill a chicken". During the Western Zhou Dynasty, cattle, as the representative of the highest-ranking "Tai Prison", were used to worship the land gods and the valley gods, hoping for a bumper harvest in agriculture. In the Spring and Autumn Period, people began to wrap millet with water bamboo leaves to make corn millet instead of cattle.

Another view is that zongzi is a kind of Dragon Boat Festival thing. In the Southern Dynasties, Wu Liangjun's "Continued Harmony" recorded: "Qu Yuan threw the Miluo River on May 5, and the Chu people mourned it. So far, rice has been stored in bamboo tubes for sacrifice. " The sacrificial objects in the quotation are made of bamboo tubes and rice, but they are also stuffed with neem leaves and wrapped in colored silk, which are similar to the current zongzi in terms of production methods and shapes, so they are considered to be the origin of zongzi.