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What are the flavors of rice dumplings

The dumplings have sweet and salty flavors. Sweet flavor has white water rice dumplings, red bean rice dumplings, broad bean rice dumplings, date rice dumplings, rose rice dumplings, melon nut rice dumplings, bean paste lard rice dumplings, date mud lard rice dumplings and so on. Savory: pork dumplings, ham dumplings, sausage dumplings, shrimp dumplings, meat dumplings, etc., but more pork dumplings. There is also a southern flavor _ leaf egg yolk meat dumplings, assorted dumplings, bean paste dumplings, mushrooms, etc.; there is also a head of sweet and a head of salty, a dumplings, two flavors of the "double spelling dumplings".

Zongzi:

Zongzi, wrapped by the zongzi leaves steamed glutinous rice, is one of the traditional festive food of the Chinese people, folklore says that eating zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan. Zongzi appeared as early as before the Spring and Autumn Period, initially used to worship ancestors and gods. By the Jin Dynasty, zongzi became the Dragon Boat Festival food. Duanwu food dumplings custom, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

The main material of zongzi is glutinous rice, filling and Ruo leaf. Due to the different dietary habits, zongzi formed a north-south flavor; from the taste points, zongzi have salty zongzi and sweet zongzi two categories. The custom of eating zongzi, for thousands of years every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of the Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese people have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi. As one of the traditional foods with the deepest accumulation of Chinese history and culture, the spread of zongzi is also very far.