Talk about food dumplings talk about food dumplings

1, first of all say zongzi, it by zongzi leaves wrapped glutinous rice steamed food, is one of the Chinese Han traditional festival food. 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, zongzi, that is, zongzong_, commonly known as zongzi, the main material is glutinous rice, fillings, with Ruo leaves (or _ leaves, _ Guzi leaves, etc.) wrapped into a variety of shapes, the main pointy, quadrangular and so on. Zongzi from a long time ago, initially used to worship the ancestors of the gods of the tribute. North and South called different, the northern production of millet, with millet to do zongzi, horn-shaped, ancient times in the north called "corner of millet". Due to the different dietary habits, dumplings formed the North and South flavor; from the taste points, dumplings have salty dumplings and sweet dumplings two categories.

3, zongzi variety, from the filling, the north has a package of small jujube Beijing jujube zongzi; the south has green beans, pork, bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolks, and other fillings, which in Guangdong salted meat zongzi, zongzi in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, as a representative of the zongzi. 2012 zongzi was selected for the documentary film "Tongue on the China" the second episode of the "staple of the story of the food" series of one of the delicacies.