Hey there! Have you heard of the Dragon Boat Festival? 🐉 It’s a super fun festival celebrated in China every year. One of the coolest traditions during this festival is making and eating delicious rice dumplings called zongzi (pronounced “dzong-dzuh”). 🍙
In Sinan County, a beautiful place in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, the streets are filled with the yummy smell of freshly made zongzi even before the festival begins! 🌾👃
At a local farm, skilled craftsmen are teaching visitors how to make these tasty treats by hand. Imagine wrapping sticky rice and yummy fillings inside bamboo leaves—it’s like doing arts and crafts you can eat! 😋🌿
Making zongzi is a bit like building a small edible pyramid. First, you need bamboo leaves, sticky rice (called glutinous rice), and fillings like juicy pork, salted duck eggs, cured meat, or mung beans. Then, you fold the leaves just right, fill them up, and tie them securely with string. It’s so cool to see how fast the experts can do it! 🏃♂️💨
Because so many people want to taste these handmade zongzi, the farm is making more and more each day. They have different flavors to choose from—plain rice, mung bean, salted egg yolk with fresh pork, and even ones with special cured meat that’s famous in the area. There’s something for everyone! 🍽️✨
These zongzi aren’t just tasty snacks—they’re a way to keep a tradition that’s thousands of years old alive and fun. By making and sharing zongzi, people are celebrating their culture and passing it on to the next generation. Isn’t that awesome? 🌟
Would you like to try making zongzi someday? Maybe you can start your own tasty tradition! 🎉
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
