How to make handmade rice dumplings for Dragon Boat Festival

How to make handmade dumplings for Dragon Boat Festival:

1, rice soaked for 24 hours, during which more water changes, at least 3.4 times.

2, kidney beans soaked half an hour in advance and cooked, rice cooker normal cooking gear can be, more water than rice, about 3 times.

3, bamboo leaves, soak half a day in advance, wash clean water bubble to be used.

4, leaf folded into a funnel shape, put a date, to prevent rice leakage, and then put beans, and then put rice, put a little water leakage, folded out the corners, wrapped around the rope tie.

5, wrapped in a stew pot, boil 40 minutes after the fire, 5 to 6 hours after the opening of the food.

Duanwu Festival customs are eating rice dumplings, tie five-color silk thread, drink xionghuang wine, dragon boat racing, hanging moxa leaves calamus, eat salted duck eggs and so on.

1, eat zongzi. Zongzi as sacrificial offerings, as early as the Spring and Autumn period has appeared, but the zongzi was formally designated as the Dragon Boat Festival food, is in the Jin Dynasty, this period, the package zongzi raw materials, in addition to glutinous rice, but also added the traditional Chinese medicine Yizhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yizhi zongzi".

2, tethered five-color silk thread. In traditional Chinese culture, the five colors that symbolize the five directions and five elements, "green, red, white, black and yellow" are considered auspicious colors. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children tie five-colored threads around their wrists and ankles to ensure their well-being.

3, drink xionghuang wine. Dragon Boat Festival drinking Xionghuang wine custom, ancient times in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. As the old saying goes, "Drinking Xionghuang wine will make you feel sick and far away".

4, dragon boat racing. Dragon boat race is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important festivals and folk activities, prevalent in southern China, in the north of the city near the river and lake there are dragon boat race customs, and most of them are rowing dry dragon boat dance dragon boat form.

5, hanging calamus leaves. Dragon Boat Festival hanging calamus is to allow those infested with snakes, insects and ants bypass. Acorus calamus, in folklore has been "mosquito repellent little hand" title.

6, eat salted duck eggs, Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, the weather is hot and humid, it is easy to breed bacteria, causing "plague sores" type of disease; and duck eggs shaped like a heart, the ancients believe that eating duck eggs can protect the heart and God is not infringed upon.