Zongzi is the traditional food of Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, which is the traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, a variety of patterns. According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, with Mizushu leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of corn"; bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked, called "tube zong".

2, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mizuno leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water dumplings. Jin Dynasty, zongzi was officially designated as the Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, the package zongzi raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also add the Chinese medicine Yi Zhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yi Zhi Zong". Zhou Zhou, "Yueyang customs and local records" recorded that: "the popular cover millet with Mizuko leaves cooked, and rotten, in the fifth of May to the summer solstice to eat, a zong, a millet." North and South Dynasty period, the emergence of mixed rice dumplings. Rice mixed with animal meat, chestnuts, jujubes, adzuki beans, etc., more varieties. Zongzi also used as a gift for interaction. To the Tang Dynasty, rice dumplings with rice, has been "white as jade", the shape of its conical, diamond-shaped. Japanese literature recorded in the "Tang dumplings".

3, Song Dynasty, there are "candied rice dumplings", that is, fruit into the dumplings. The poet Su Dongpo has "in the dumplings see prunes" poem. At this time also appeared with zongzi piled up into buildings, pavilions, wooden cars, cows and horses for the advertisement, that the Song Dynasty to eat zongzi has been very fashionable. Yuan, Ming period, zongzi parcel material has changed from zongmu leaf for Ruo leaf, and later appeared with reed leaf package of zongzi, additional material has appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, jujube, walnuts and so on, varieties are more colorful.