Are dumplings a specialty of Jiangnan?

First of all, we need to clarify the concept of Jiangnan. 1, narrow sense. Mostly refers to the south bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plains and other areas. These include Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and other southern areas of Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, north of the Qiantang River, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, as well as Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jinhua, Quzhou and Shanghai, Anhui and Ezhou, the southern part of the Chizhou, Xuancheng, Ma'anshan, Wuhu, Tongling, Huangshan, Jingzhou, Ezhou, Huangshi, Wuhan, and Xianggan Nanchang, Changsha, Yueyang, Changde, Jiujiang, Shangrao, Jingdezhen, and other northern areas. The Jiangnan area centered around Taihu Lake, Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake;

2. Broadly defined. Including the whole territory of Shanghai, Jiangxi, Hunan, Zhejiang, and the area south of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei provinces. Compared with the Jiangnan Road of the Tang Dynasty, there are fewer parts involving Guizhou Province. The northern part of Fujian is sometimes referred to as Jiangnan.

And the zongzi were made because Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, and the local people could not bear the thought of fish and shrimp destroying Qu Yuan's body. Miluo is in what is now Yueyang, so you can dumplings are a specialty of Jiangnan, but as time passes, the food of dumplings has been accepted by people all over the country and countless practices have been developed.