Skills of wrapping zongzi

The tutorial for making zongzi is as follows:

Material preparation: palm leaves, glutinous rice, etc.

1. Take the leaves of Zongzi, then wash them and cut off the tail.

2. After washing the leaves, choose the right size leaves. If the leaves are small, you can put two pieces together.

3. Fold the other end of the leaf into a funnel. The bottom of the funnel can't be empty, so fold it tightly, or the sticky rice will leak out.

4. Put the washed glutinous rice, peanuts, red beans and red dates into the zongzi leaf funnel and add a proper amount.

5. Then, press the top page, press it with your index finger, and then fold the extra page on the left and press it with your thumb.

6. Fold up the extra leaves on the right and hold them with your middle finger.

7. Pinch out the sharp corner in front by hand, pinch out the sharp corner and then fold the extra leaves back from the right.

8. Take out the white thread, pull it out from the middle finger, wrap it around the palm of your hand, and tie the thread tightly. Not too tight.

9. Then tie it up. Then take out the wrapped zongzi and steam it.

The development of zongzi:

Zongzi, a kind of food, has been circulating for a long time. In the Story of the Wind written by the magistrate of Xinping in the Western Jin Dynasty at the beginning of the week, the word "hand in the book" was clearly mentioned: "The midsummer is the end of the fifth day, and Fang Bo is extremely harmonious. Enjoy the turtle scales in Shunde. " Millet is produced in the north, and glutinous rice is wrapped in jiaozi, which is angular. In ancient north, it was called "corn millet". According to research, Zongzi appeared before the Spring and Autumn Period and was originally used to worship ancestors and gods.

In the Jin Dynasty, zongzi became the festival food of the Dragon Boat Festival. In Jin Dynasty, Zongzi was officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, in addition to glutinous rice, jiaozi also added Alpinia oxyphylla, and the boiled jiaozi was called "Yizhi jiaozi". Rice is mixed with the meat of rare animals, chestnuts and so on. And there are more and more varieties. Zongzi is also used as a gift for communication. The rice used for Zongzi in the Tang Dynasty is "white as jade", and the shape of Zongzi appears conical and rhombic.

There is a record of "Da Tang Zongzi" in Japanese literature. There was a kind of "candied zongzi" in the Song Dynasty, that is, fruit was put into zongzi. The poet Su Dongpo has a poem "See Yangmei in Zongzi". At this time, there were also advertisements for building pavilions and wooden chariots and horses with zongzi, indicating that eating zongzi was very fashionable in the Song Dynasty.