SPD3159 Heritage Hong Kong : food - Zongzi 粽子

Today I would like intrude the heritage food is my favorite food call Zongzi 粽子. Which are traditional Chinese foods, made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, they are cooked by steaming or boiling.


Zongzi is traditionally eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, commemorating the death of Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese poet from the kingdom of Chu who lived during the Warring States period. Known for his patriotism, Qu Yuan tried unsuccessfully to warn his king and countrymen against the expansionism of their Qin neighbors.


When the Qin general Bai Qi took Yingdu, the Chu capital, in 278 BC, Qu Yuan's grief was so intense that he drowned himself in the Miluo River after penning the Lament for Ying. According to legend, packets of rice were thrown into the river to prevent fish from eating the poet's body.
But nowadays you cannt fall the Zongzi in the river, if not you will be fine $1500 by Goverment. @_@"

by Franky