rice dumpling(Zongzi) become a popular Chinese festival of food daily dessert

rice dumpling(Zong Zi) for the Dragon Boat Festival, the traditional Chinese symbol of food, has become a popular dessert, people eat, it has evolved overtime to adapt to people's health problems.

 

rice dumpling(Zong Zi), the traditional foods served during the main meal is used as the Dragon Boat Festival, or the Dragon Boat Festival, which in China falls on lunar May 5th bamboo or reed leaves, made of glutinous rice wrapped.

 

"When I was young, my mother would only rice dumpling(Zong Zi) in the Dragon Boat Festival draws near," said White Wing Kin, a 30-year-old Taiyuan, capital city of Shanxi Province in northern China.

 

White said that his mother would soak rice in water for two days.

 

"My mother would use a whole afternoon to wrap into a tetrahedral shape and charming reed leaves boiled rice, and use a soaked straw. I was sitting next to see her through each magical process, do not know when to put my bowl, "he said.

 

In the evening, semi-finished rice dumpling(Zong Zi) and then arranged in a neat circle large pot, gently steam over high heat for about five hours.

 

They will have to stay in all night on a pan lid to allow the reed leaves and Daoxiang melted, fully complementary.

 

"This is almost a torture of a child waiting so long. I will never forget is that it can smell it, but can not put it in my childhood memories. Feeling that this is a few days I used to eat rice rice dumpling(Zong Zi), not just a night, "said White.

 

"It always seems in my memory forever."

 

White recalled, the rice dumpling(Zong Zi) were served as a main meal, he likes them, so he never stopped to eat before he is fully achieved throat.

 

However, the rice dumpling(Zong Zi) have become a popular dessert that is always at convenience stores and supermarkets.

 

Zhang Jun, a southerner working in the northern city of Tianjin, said he could buy his favorite meat rice dumpling(Zong Zi), the filling of his place of work from the canteen.

 

Of: stuffing rice dumpling(Zong Zi), more diverse food manufacturers continue to innovate to suit different tastes and needs.

 

Traditionally, glutinous rice rice dumpling(Zong Zi) is used, date and sometimes accompanied by the sweet bean paste or pork stuffed.

 

Now, almost all you can think of can be crammed into a small snack from a variety of grains and fruits, such as abalone, scallops and more expensive ingredients.

 

Well and good, traditional food company based in Taiyuan, rice rice dumpling(Zong Zi) made 11 this year, the market price from 50 to 260 yuan (40 U.S. dollars).

 

Stuffing their rice dumpling(Zong Zi) are customized to meet the diverse tastes of different customers.

 

Regular fillings include dates, corn and meat, and some more creative packages add green tea, black plum, purple, and even into the chocolate filling.

 

As Chinese people become increasingly aware of their health, more attention to what they eat rice rice dumpling(Zong Zi) manufacturers are adapting their products more healthy.

 

A good, good or bad to meet people's needs, adding sugar to maintain the filling, like the grain, high fiber content health series.

 

Another tendency is that the rice dumpling(Zong Zi) is through weight loss process.

 

The weight of traditional rice rice dumpling(Zong Zi) for more than 200 grams, but now it usually weighing about 100 grams or less, because people eat the main meal instead of dessert rice dumpling(Zong Zi).

 

Some manufacturers even sell their little "one bite rice dumpling(Zong Zi)", it weighs only about 30 to 40 grams.

 

In the diversity, size and function of the rice dumpling(Zong Zi) in the past few years of development can serve as a standard of living of the Chinese people to improve and maintain their vivid manifestation of the concept of good health.

 

Liu Tieliang, at Beijing Normal University professor of Chinese folklore says that while a change in the rice dumpling(Zong Zi), and many aspects of a nursing overtime is that it has been a powerful symbol of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival.

 

Dragon Boat Festival, held on Monday, this year is generally considered to commemorate Qu Yuan, a famous patriotic poet, from the state of Chu in the Warring States period of China (BC 475 - 221 BC) died.

 

When the capital was Qinfa Sheng Chu in 278 BC, Qu Yuan's grief was so intense that he drowned himself in the Miluo River. According to legend, packets of rice were thrown into the river to prevent fish eating the poet's body.

 

The festival to become the first Chinese Art Festival will be in the famous September 2009 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.