What delicious zongzi have you seen?

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a tradition for China to commemorate Qu Yuan, the minister of Chu State during the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan is a great patriotic poet in China. When Chu was about to perish, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

In order to prevent his body from being eaten by fish and shrimp in the river, people throw food into the river on the fifth day of May every year. Moreover, ancient people were superstitious and thought that these foods would not be shared by Qu Yuan after being eaten by fish and shrimp. So I wrapped the soaked glutinous rice or yellow rice into sharp corners with zongzi leaves, cooked it in a pot and put it in the river for Qu Yuan to eat.

This sharp food is zongzi, and later people also eat zongzi together on this day. With the improvement of people's living standards, there are different needs for zongzi, so there are also various fillings in zongzi. Generally, there are salted eggs, red dates, meat, red beans, eight treasures, lotus seeds, bean paste bacon, ham, candied dates and so on.

In order to attract people's attention, more merchants who operate zongzi have also innovated many wonderful zongzi. There are fruit stuffing, matcha stuffing, coffee stuffing, herring stuffing, chicken stuffing, corn stuffing, beef stuffing with abalone sauce, chestnut pork stuffing, celery stuffing, pine nut corn stuffing, ribs stuffing and so on. What surprised me most was the leek and egg stuffing. What do you think of this stuffing?

In fact, among so many zongzi, I think glutinous rice or yellow rice zongzi is the most fragrant. It still maintains its original flavor, and it is soft and sticky with a bite, and its lips and teeth are fragrant and memorable. What kind of stuffing do you like best? What kind of stuffing do you want most? Try the Dragon Boat Festival.