What's the name of Zongzi?

Zongzi is also called Zongzi, Pepper Potato and Zongzi. It is a traditional festival food of Han nationality in Dragon Boat Festival, which is steamed with glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves.

Legend is circulated in memory of Qu Yuan, which is a traditional food with the deepest cultural accumulation in China history and is deeply loved by people. On the fifth day of May, people in China soaked glutinous rice, washed zongzi leaves and wrapped zongzi in every household. This custom has also spread to Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped into horns by leaves of Zizania latifolia, which was called "Zizania latifolia". Rice packed in bamboo tubes is sealed and baked, which is called "tube zongzi". Zongzi is a kind of "blessing" and a tribute used by people to worship their ancestors in festivals. It is an ancient traditional custom to give blessings to ancestors at festivals.

There are many kinds of glutinous rice, and different kinds of glutinous rice will be made in different festivals. Zongzi is a tribute to the ancestors of the gods during the Dragon Boat Festival. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contains "alkali", millet is wrapped in leaves and boiled into a quadrangle, which is called Guangdong alkaline water zongzi.