Foreign tourists join local residents to make Zongzi (Chinese tamales) in Xi'an, the capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, on June 6, 2016. Chinese people make sticky rice bundles to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on June 9th this year. [Photo / Xiancn.com]

Eating Zongzi

Zongzi is an essential food of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that people ate them during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). In early times, it was only glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in reeds or other plant leaves and tied with colored thread, but now the fillings are more diverse, including jujube, bean paste, fresh meat, ham and egg yolk. If time permits, people will soak the glutinous rice, wash reed leaves and wrap up Zongzi themselves. Otherwise, they will go to shops to buy whatever kind they want. The custom of eating Zongzi is now popular in DPRK, South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.

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