Dumplings are like what anthropomorphic sentences

The zongzi looks like a big fat, fat, fat man who can't even stand up.

1. Zongzi, steamed from glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves, is one of the traditional festive foods of the Chinese nation. Zongzi as China's history and culture of the deepest accumulation of one of the traditional food, the spread is also very far. The custom of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival has prevailed in China for thousands of years and has spread to Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

2, zongzong, that is, zongzong, commonly known as zongzi, the main material is glutinous rice, fillings, with Ruo leaf (or Shuu leaf, cambium leaves, etc.) wrapped into a variety of shapes, the main pointy, quadrangular, and so on. Zongzi has a long history, initially used to be a tribute to the gods and ancestors. In ancient times in the north known as "corner corn", the northern production of corn, with corn to make dumplings, horn-shaped, said "corner corn".

3, due to the different dietary habits, dumplings form the North and South flavor; from the taste points, dumplings have salty dumplings and sweet dumplings two categories.

Duanwu Festival to eat zongzi origin:

1, 340 BC, the patriotic poet, the Chu state doctor Qu Yuan, faced with the pain of the death of the country, on May 5, sadly embracing the big stone thrown into the Buro River. In order not to make the fish and shrimp damage his body, people have put the bamboo tube filled with rice into the river.

2, later, in order to show respect and remembrance of Qu Yuan, every day, people will be bamboo tube filled with rice, into the sacrifice, which is the earliest zongzi - "tube zongzi" origin.

3, why later and then use mugwort leaves or reed leaves, lotus leaves package zongzi? So, people will "Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet", made "corn". Passed down from generation to generation, and gradually developed into our Dragon Boat Festival food.