What does it mean to eat zongzi in the New Year?

Eating zongzi in the New Year, the homonym of "Zongzi" and "Zong", means to carry on the family line. Eating zongzi in the New Year is a custom in Guangdong and Guangxi. Zongzi, also known as Zongzi, is one of the traditional festival foods of the Chinese nation. It was originally used to pay homage to ancestors and gods. It is said that Zongzi was handed down in memory of Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river.

Its main ingredients are glutinous rice and stuffing, which are wrapped with Indocalamus leaves, Hiragi leaves or bamboo leaves. , and is dominated by sharp corners and quadrangles, represented by Guangdong bacon zongzi and Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi. According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped into horns by leaves of zinia latifolia, which was called horny millet. Put rice into a bamboo tube, seal and bake, and weigh the dumplings; Zongzi belongs to a kind of glutinous rice. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contains alkali, the millet is wrapped in leaves into a quadrilateral, and when cooked, it becomes Guangdong sour rice dumplings.