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How to make dumplings handmade

Dumplings handmade steps are as follows:

1, tools / raw materials

color cardboard (pink, green, white, blue), scissors, glue, clay, markers, lollipops

2, methods / steps

(1) Prepare the needed items, such as colored cardboard, scissors, glue, markers, clay.

(2) Cut out the leaves of the dumplings and draw lines on the green cardboard.

(3) Cut out triangular dumpling bodies on white cardstock and draw expressions.

(4) Fold pink cardstock into small rectangles.

(5) Find the center point to cut out the petals of the lotus flower, and cut out smaller petals by folding out smaller rectangles.

(6) Stagger and glue the petals of the same size, then glue the large and small at once.

(7) Roll up the petals with a quill and insert a lollipop for the core.

(8) Glue the leaves to the dumplings, with the gluing point in front of the body for a better look.

(9) dragon boat rice dumplings use two leaves, leaf cross sticking, leaf tip sticking to the outside of the front leaf, the formation of dragon boat bow and stern.

(10) in the dumplings on the clay dumplings are not easy to fall.

(11) Start joining the dragon boat race with the dumplings.

Notes

The cutting of the cardboard is best done by an adult to avoid hurting the baby's hands.

The dumpling leaves can be glued only in front of the body, and the back on the rounded hollow.

Expanded knowledge:

The zongzi, also known as corn or tube zongzi, is wrapped by the zongzi leaf glutinous rice steamed food, is one of the traditional Chinese festival food, contains high quality starch, B vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids, zongzong leaves are rich in amino acids, vitamin c, chlorophyll, potassium and other nutrients.

It is made by mixing the soaked glutinous rice with sugar and then wrapping it in boiled rice dumpling leaves and steaming it in a pot.

People with weak spleens and stomachs should be cautious about eating zongzi. Legend has it that the origin of zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river and died. Zongzi divided into a variety, including Beijing zongzi is the representative varieties of the northern zongzi, more dates, bean paste filling, a few also use dried fruit as filling; the representative varieties of the southern zongzi is the Guangdong zongzi, mainly salted meat zongzi, spouting zongzi, bean paste zongzi, and so on.