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Chinese Name：上海嘉湖糭 | 家鄉糭
Other Names：Shanghai Jiahu Rice Dumpling | Hometown Rice Dumpling
Product Description：Jiaxing Zongzi is a traditional snack in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. It is famous for being glutinous but not mushy, fat but not greasy, fragrant and glutinous, with a moderate amount of salty and sweet. Especially the fresh meat rice dumplings are the most famous and are known as the "King of Zongzi". Jiaxing rice dumplings are loved by tourists because of their delicious taste, convenience to carry and eat, and are known as "Oriental fast food".
origin
Rice dumplings are mainly divided into two types: Lye rice dumplings and bacon rice dumplings. They are foods enjoyed by family members during the Dragon Boat Festival. Because Shanghai is geographically close to Jiaxing, the taste and shape of the rice dumplings are basically the same as those of Jiaxing rice dumplings, but Shanghai rice dumplings have four corners. Jiaxing Zongzi has a long history. Six or seven thousand years ago, our ancestors gave birth to the Majiabang Culture, a representative of the early Neolithic culture in the Taihu Basin of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. This is one of the sources of the ancient civilization of the Chinese nation and one of the earliest origins of rice cultivation in China. . Jiaxing Zongzi is a folk food during the Dragon Boat Festival. The history of Zongzi being popular in Jiaxing can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty at the latest. In the second episode of the CCTV documentary "A Bite of China", the aroma and deliciousness of Jiaxing rice dumplings are vividly displayed. Among the many flavors, egg yolk rice dumplings became the sales champion, followed closely by bean paste and fresh meat rice dumplings.
From ancient times to the present, the method of making rice dumplings is roughly the same. Rice is wrapped in leaves, tied with ropes, and then cooked in a pot. On this basis, people add different fruits, meats, and herbs to the rice dumplings. , forming different types of rice dumplings.
It is said that on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Qu Yuan, the patriotic poet of Chu, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River. In order to prevent the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body, the people dropped rice dumplings into the river.
Zongzi is the representative food of Dragon Boat Festival
Ingredients in Zongzi
Relevant documents were first found in "Fengtu Ji" written in Zhou Dynasty in the Western Jin Dynasty in the third century AD, which had nothing to do with sacrifices. After hundreds of years, later generations embedded its origins into folk beliefs in various places, and derived legends about dragon sacrifices, Wu Zixu or Qu Yuan.
In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, Zongzi is considered to be related to Wu Zixu's belief in Jiangsu and other places.
Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in the Chinese cultural circle. It is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. It is a summer festival to bid farewell to the five plague gods and drive away plagues. It is one of the four major Chinese festivals. Along with the New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is an important traditional festival in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the Japanese Islands, the Ryukyu Islands, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage, making the Dragon Boat Festival the first Chinese festival to be selected as a world intangible cultural heritage.
According to widespread legend, Qu Yuan, the patriotic poet of Chu State, committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River on this day. Later, in memory of Qu Yuan, some people called it Poet's Day. It may be said that it is the death day of Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of the state of Wu.
