How to tie the thread of the dumplings

The method of tying the thread for wrapping zongzi is as follows:

1, bite one end of the thread with your teeth, take the zongzi in one hand and the thread in the other.

2, take the other end of the line around the dumplings two or one circle.

3. Tie a knot at both ends of the thread.

Development of Zongzi:

1, Zongzi, that is, zongzi, commonly known as zongzi, the main material is glutinous rice, fillings, with Ruo leaves (or Shuu leaves, Leucaena leaves, etc.) wrapped into a variety of shapes, the main pointy, four-pointed, etc.. Zongzi has a long history, initially used to be a tribute to ancestors and gods. As one of the traditional foods with the deepest accumulation of Chinese history and culture, zongzi have spread far and wide.

2, "dumplings" word ancient writing "rice dumpling" (zòng), history and dumplings related to the written records, the earliest probably in the Han Dynasty Xu Shen's "Shuowen Jiezi", will be interpreted as "rice wrapped in reed leaves, also". also". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, known as the Guangdong alkaline water dumplings.

3, the same period appeared a small number of dumplings wrapped in filling the most popular than pork dumplings. Zong this food has long been spread, the Western Jin Dynasty Xinping Taishou Zhou wrote the "wind Shi Ji", then clearly mentioned the word "corn": "Midsummer end of five, Fang Bo Xieji. Enjoy the corn, turtle scale Shunde."

4, the northern production of millet, with millet dumplings, horn-shaped, in ancient times in the north, called "corner of millet". According to evidence, dumplings have appeared before the Spring and Autumn Period, initially used to worship ancestors and gods; to the Jin Dynasty, dumplings become the Dragon Boat Festival festive food.

5, Jin Dynasty, zongzi was officially designated as the Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, the package of raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also add the Chinese medicine Yizhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yizhi zongzi". Rice mixed with rare birds and animals, meat, chestnuts, etc., more varieties. Rice dumplings are also used as gifts for interaction.

6, Tang Dynasty, rice dumplings have been "white as jade", the shape of the dumplings appeared conical, diamond-shaped. Japanese literature recorded in the "Tang dumplings".