Zongzi can be a grassroots staple food for the stomach, or a gift between loved ones and friends, and it has the imprint of Chinese customs and phenology, and its style is even more diverse.
Which kind of food in the world has the universality of daily meals, and it is also branded by Chinese customs and phenology, and it is the carrier of the world's intangible cultural heritage.
"Five-color new silk wrapped around the corner of the dumpling", the image of the rice dumpling comes with a sense of ceremony, it must be untied through layers of wide clothing, before revealing the bright flower appearance and moon appearance, as for the connotation, the eater has to use the teeth and tongue to probe into the square to recognize the wonderful taste. With its natural additive-free appearance, unhurried opening, and tepid eating state, you can treat it like a kunqu opera for food, or you can gobble up it at highway rest stops all over Kyushu, when hungry, and no one is swallowing, at this time it is a grassroots staple food. After eating, he took another bag as a gift between his loved ones and friends, and the gift was so light that there was no mental burden between the giver and the recipient.
It is said that the earliest recorded taste of rice dumplings in history is sweet, and the salty dumplings that became "fragrant dumplings" only appeared in the Ming Dynasty. The Qianlong Emperor of Xia jiangnan was indispensable to the bold innovation of zongzi filling, and his excellence in zongzi made the imperial chefs rack their brains from shape to filling. In the Eighteenth Year of Qianlong's Dragon Boat Festival, in the face of the 1276 various types of rice dumplings on the table, he gladly inscribed the poem "Dumpling Seat Pu Lingchen, The Scenery in the Sky is New". The vast territory of China has led to the ever-changing taste and packaging of rice dumplings: Yunnan tube dumplings, Guangdong steamed dumplings, Cantonese lotus dumplings, Hangzhou Wumi dumplings, Guizhou sauerkraut dumplings, Wuhan brine lotus meat dumplings, Henan lak-flavored pillow dumplings, Xiamen roasted meat dumplings, Chaoshan double-spelled dumplings, Xi'an honey dumplings, Inner Mongolia milk fragrant dumplings, Beijing red jujube dumplings, Zhongshan round stick-shaped reed dumplings, etc., or sweet or salty, and even sweet and salty, all of which are exquisite.
The shape of zongzi is also rich in geometric aesthetic significance, suzhou caizhi zhai pine nut candy, mint candy is shaped by this, affectionately called zongzi candy; Suzhou goldfish dumpling is also because the geometric shape of the rice dumpling resembles the fish body, and its tail is decorated with rice dumpling leaves scattered and trimmed into fishtails, so it is named goldfish dumpling; there are exquisite small foot dumplings reminiscent of the three-inch golden lotus of ancient women.
When people are not willing to be conservative, every Dragon Boat Festival, merchants will durian, abalone, dried scallops into the filling, made into high-end rice dumplings on the market, the outer packaging are carefully designed like cultural creation, and even the value of the utensils is more expensive than the gift itself, which is actually an alienation of the upside down.
The most likely group of post-90s modern women, they play with the computer, but also learned to wrap rice dumplings, pay attention to the habit of healthy eating, so that they give up greasy meat and salted egg yolk, their own development of quinoa dumplings, wormwood oat dumplings, strict control of calorie intake. At the recent Shanghai Baking Exhibition, people were also pleased to see that the newly launched net red rice dumplings are mostly filled with almonds, peanuts, red beans, walnut kernels, melon seeds, pine nuts, sugar roses and other ingredients, a "flower nut dumpling", like white jade embedded with pearl agate, poetic beauty directly hit people's hearts. The one called "Treasure Dumpling" adds blood glutinous rice and corn kernels, and is decorated with natto, ginkgo and chestnut kernels, just like the Chinese painting landscape splashed with ink. (Lin Xiaojin)