When do you eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival?

According to legend, in 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu, faced the pain of national subjugation. On May 5th, he threw a big stone into Guluo River with grief and indignation. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his body, people throw rice into the river with bamboo tubes. In the future, people will put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to pay homage to Qu Yuan. This is the origin of China's earliest zongzi-"tube zongzi".

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The representative variety of South Zongzi is Guangdong Zongzi, which has pyramid, strip and triangular cone. The main varieties are bacon dumplings, Jianshui dumplings and bean paste dumplings, among which bacon dumplings are the most popular. Bacon dumplings are mainly filled with glutinous rice, pork belly and mung beans, and some also add salted egg yolk, mushrooms, dried shrimps, scallops, chestnuts and peanuts, which are salty and delicious and have a better flavor. Geographically, Guangdong Zongzi also includes Zhaoqing Steamed Zongzi, Taishan Zongzi, Dongguan Daojiao Zongzi, Zhongshan Ludou Zongzi, Chaoshan Shuangpin Zongzi Ball, Hakka Grey Water Zongzi and Zhanjiang Clam Zongzi.

Zongzi in Jiangnan is the most famous and complicated, especially the stuffing, which is varied. A big difference with the northern rice dumplings is that the glutinous rice raw materials of Jiangnan rice dumplings are mostly soaked in grass ash soup in advance and steamed with meat stuffing, which is fragrant. ?

Huzhou Zongzi has a unique strip shape like a pillow, so it is called "pillow Zongzi"; Because of its slender shape, concave in the middle, upturned at both ends, beautiful lines, small and elegant, some people call it "Beauty Zongzi". Huzhou zongzi is basically handmade, very elegant; The materials are also varied, such as soy sauce, fresh meat, bean paste, egg yolk and so on. Now the famous zongzi in Huzhou are Zhenyuantong and Zhu Laoda.