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	Zongzi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The zongzi or rice dumpling (Chinese: 粽子 or 糭子; Pinyin: zòngzi; Wade-Giles: tsung-tzu) is a traditional Chinese food, to which the Mesoamerican tamal is similar.
		In 2005, the earliest zongzi ever found in China was discovered in a 700 year old tomb in De'an County, Jiangxi Province.
		Chinese authorities issued zongzi health warnings for the 2006 Dragon Boat Festival due to copper compounds being used to enhance the color of the leaves used for wrapping in some factories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zongzi (576 words)

	Chinese festival:the dragon boat festival
		The taste of Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves to give it a special flavor, varies greatly across China.
		Zongzi is often made of rice mixed with dates in Northern China, because dates are abundant in the area.
		In Sichuan Province, Zongzi is usually served with a sugar dressing.
	www.chinavoc.com /festivals/Dragonboat_rle.htm (498 words)

	Info on major Traditional Chinese Festivals - China History Forum, online chinese history forum
		Zongzi is a popular traditional dish eaten all year in South China, and it became the central food representing the tradition of Dragon Festival all over Chins.
		The practice of wrapping the zongzi in leaves is said to begin during the reign of Emperor Guangwu (25-26 AD) of the Han Dynasty Qu Hui saw a man near the traditional site where 屈原Qu Yuan committed suicide on the Miluo River.
		In the south the zongzi are usually larger and contains salty dried pork, beef or chicken, or a salty egg yolk.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=275&view=getlastpost (2209 words)

	zongzi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Today's Zongzi is made similarly, with a serving of rice wrapped in leaves and tied together with string.
		Zongzi is usually four-sided with pointed, rounded ends, or pyramid shapes.
		Guangdong zongzi is either sweet-tasting, with walnut, date or bean, or salty with filling ham, egg, meat, roast chicken.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~kyfoo/chinese/zongzi.html (221 words)

	Rice Dumplings (Zongzi) - Dining - Enjoy Life - Newsgd
		Today's Zongzi is made with a serving of rice wrapped in leaves and tied together with string.
		Zongzi is usually four£sided with pointed, rounded ends, or in pyramid shapes.
		Guangdong Zongzi is either sweet£tasting, with walnut, date or bean, or salty with filling ham, egg, meat, roast chicken.
	www.newsgd.com /enjoylife/living/dining/200306030050.htm (280 words)

	Hong Kong Hotel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Entwined in the mythology of the Dragon Boat Festival is zongzi, a tasty glutinous rice dumpling.
		Some believe that when poet Qu Yuan committed suicide in 278 BC by jumping in a river, locals threw rice into the river as a sacrifice to their dead hero, and to nourish his spirit.
		Zongzi come in many shapes, but are most commonly triangular or pyramid shaped.
	www.idea-hongkong.com /travel-guides/about_food-chinese_food.htm (1544 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sticky rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For example, zongzi is a Chinese dumpling consisting of sticky rice and fillings steamed in leaves, usually eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival.
		Rice dumpling with azuki bean filling The zongzi or rice dumpling (Chinese: 粽子 or 糭子; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: tsung-tzu) is a traditional Chinese food, similar to the Mesoamerican tamal.
		For example, zongzi or rice dumpling is a Chinese dish consistsing of sticky rice and meats or nuts wrapped in leaves and steamed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sticky-rice (1381 words)

	Eating China - Chinese Food Culture and History 中國食跡
		At this time of year, the unmistakable smell of bamboo leaves is in the air, and there are few things more tantalising to the nostrils than steaming zongzi.
		Zongzi are eaten all year round but during the Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar year) and for the following month or so, millions are consumed.
		Professional zongzi makers are getting more creative every year, but I have never eaten anything better than the product made from this recipe (below) for typical pyramid shaped steamed Taiwanese zongzi.
	www.eatingchina.com (461 words)

	Arts&Crafts
		Although they are both in the shape of the pyramid, Guangdong zongzi are longer and have various kinds of stuffings.
		Jiaxing zongzi are smaller and are usually stuffed with pork or bean paste.
		To make zongzi, first wash the glutinous rice quickly without allowing it to macerate, drain it for about fifteen minutes, and then mix it with soy sauce, sugar, and a little salt.
	www.pasadena.edu /chinese/cultural/customs.html (2682 words)

	Zongzi, food for thought - Dining - Enjoy Life - Newsgd
		The festival is in commemoration of ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who drowned in a river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. He was admired by people for fighting rampant corruption.
		Department stores, supermarkets, and restaurants have all become a dazzling showcase of various Zongzi, the glutinous rice ball with a filling wrapped in corn leaves.
		Moon cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, round dumplings for the Lantern Festival and Zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival.
	www.newsgd.com /enjoylife/living/dining/200406230032.htm (646 words)

	World InfoZone - Ni Hao from China
		There are many different kinds of Zongzi, each with its own particular flavor, shape, and type of leaf for wrapping.
		Zongzi is normally four-sided with pointed, rounded ends, or in pyramid shapes.
		Bamboo leaf Zongzi is a specialty of South China.
	www.worldinfozone.com /features.php?section=PartnersChina2&page=2 (734 words)

	The Wrap on Zongzi
		Northerners tend to prefer sweet varieties, in which dates or red bean paste are mixed in with the rice.
		Folk of southern China have a taste for both sweet and savory zongzi, filled with salted duck egg yolks, ham, seasoned or stewed pork, walnuts, peanuts, dried shrimp, and other flavorful ingredients.
		The most basic type, found around the country, is simply filled with glutinous rice, meant to be dipped in honey or sugar.
	bjtoday.ynet.com /article.jsp?oid=3407591 (122 words)

	Asian Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Zongzi is the most popular food for the festival.
		Zongzi is served in different shapes and with a variety of fillings.
		The festivals are closely associated with zongzi and dragon boat races.
	www.angelfire.com /ga3/samplewebcode40/AEM.html (617 words)

	Victoria Dragon Boat Festival
		Unable to find him, people threw zongzi (a wrapped glutinous rice dumpling), eggs, and other food into the river to keep the fish away from his body.
		They race dragon boats and eat zongzi every year on the anniversary of his death - the fifth day of the fifth month.
		Dragon boat races are now held worldwide, and the ideals of Qu Yuan are still honoured - through Taoist ceremonies, the spirit of the paddlers, and the invitation and involvement of the local community.
	www.victoriadragonboat.com /history.php (363 words)

	Zongzi and the Dragon Boat Festival
		The main thing to do on this day is to eat zongzi, the glutinous rice dumpling, as it is translated into English, though I think that scarcely describes it.
		The origin of the zongzi is as strange as the food itself.
		Later, it became a ritual to eat the zongzi on the anniversary of Qu Yuan's death and to hold dragon boat races.
	www.lynnsupdate.com /zongzi_and_the_dragon_boat_festi.htm (431 words)

	East Asia Diary: One Zongzi Too Many (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I arrived, this time, just ahead of Dragon Boat Festival, which means that I was just in time to eat zongzi, sticky rice, meat, and vegetables pressed into large triangular shapes the size of your fist and wrapped in bamboo leaves.
		It is common to give them away to friends and acquaintances, and I've received a great many, not only from my friends, but even from the ladies at the archives, who heated them up and gave them to me to eat while reading (so much for document preservation, I guess.
		I brought a zongzi with me for lunch yesterday, but when the moment came, I found I just couldn't face it.
	eastasiadiary.blogspot.com /2004/07/one-zongzi-too-many.html (1409 words)

	Dragon Boat Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Unable to find his body, people threw zongzi, eggs and other food into the river to feed the fish in hopes of salvaging his body.
		Zongzi Zongzi is a special kind of Chinese dumpling.
		The smell and the taste of fresh bamboo leaves is part of zongzi.
	web.mit.edu /course/17/17.s21/maguro.old/dragon.html (246 words)

	Kansas City Chinese Food - Famous Dishes: Zongzi (Rice Dumpling)
		Zongzi is a traditional food for the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, which is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
		Zongzi is made of high-quality sticky rice, in pyramid, cone or cylinder shapes, with a filling, wrapped in leaves of wild rice, palm or Bamboo.
		As he was so loved by the people, fishermen rushed out in long boats, beating drums to scare the fish away, and throwing Zongzi into the water to feed braver fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body.
	www.kcchinesefood.com /dish/zongzi.html (403 words)

	Culture
		However, according to the Chinese lunar calendar, the fifth month just begins and the Chinese people are preparing to celebrate another traditional festival-the Dragon Boat Festival(also called Duanwu).The Duanwu Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar.
		Eastern China's Jiaxing County is famous for its pork-stuffed Zongzi.In the southern Province of Guangdong, people stuff Zongzi with pork, ham, chestnuts and other ingredients, making them very rich in flavor.
		Pyramid-shaped dumplings by the name of Zongzi were thrown in the river to feed the fish, so they would stay away from Qu Yuan's body.
	www.chinaembassy.org.np /culture/festivals/dragon_boat.htm (960 words)

	According to the Chinese traditional calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On this festival Chinese people prepare and eat zongzi, and the excitement is provided by dragon boat racing—hence the English name for the holiday.
		When villagers heard he had thrown himself into the river, they rushed in their boats to try to save him, but they were too late.
		This kind is called “plain” (bai) zongzi, which you eat with sugar or honey.
	www.castekchaos.com /castekchaos/DragonboatHistory.htm (791 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Oldest traditional food found in 700-year-old tomb in E. China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chinese archeologists declared they found the oldest Zongzi, a kind of glutinous rice food which has been served at the traditional Chinese Dragon Boat Festival for thousands of years, in De'an, a county in east China's Jiangxi Province.
		Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, is a kind of special food derived from the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival.
		Zongzi in the early period was used to mourn the deceased and sometimes used in burial rites, and a pair of Zongzi were used to indicate prosperity for the dead and the offspring, said Liu Shizhong, a researcher with Jiangxi Provincial Archeology Institute.
	english.people.com.cn /200506/08/eng20050608_189199.html (368 words)

	TDG Travel -- Destination Guides - Asia - China - Yangzi ...
		They returned later to scatter zongzi (packets of meat and sticky rice wrapped up in reeds and lotus leaves) into the river as an offering to Qu Yuan's spirit.
		At any rate, it's a festive rather than mournful occasion, with huge quantities of steamed zongzi eaten and keen competition between local dragon-boat teams, who can be seen practising in their narrow, powerful crafts months before the event, to the steady boom of a pacing drum.
		It's a lively spectator sport, with crowds cheering their rowers along, and you need to be up early to get the most from the ceremonies - such as the dedication of the dragon-headed prows - as the race itself lasts only a few minutes.
	destinations.tdgtravel.com /index.jsp?cid=91484&action=viewLocation&formId=54320 (363 words)

	Sweet Rice Zong-Zi
		Follow the same step for the other "Zongzi".
		Place the "Zongzi" in a pot then add water to cover.
		Bring the water to a boil; turn the heat to low and cook the "Zongzi" for 2.5 hours.
	www.china-on-site.com /pages/cooking/1365.php (143 words)

	eG Forums -> Let's talk zongzi (joong, Chinese Tamales)
		As usual, my wife, probably in collaboration with my MIL, will be making "Jiaxing zongzi" with characteristic regional minimalism: nothing but soy sauce and salty pork in the savory version, bean paste in the sweet.
		My mum used to make zongzi, but my dad complained she didn't put enough mung beans, so she stopped making them.
		The version she made was what we called zham tao zong (pillow zong) because it is big and pillow-shaped and stuffed with all sorts of goodies like pork, egg yolk, chestnut, shitake, dried scallop and of course, not enough mung beans.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=44225&st=30 (2753 words)

	Chinese festivals:the dragon boat day or Chinese dragon boat festival
		The spirit advised them to wrap the rice in silk and bind it with five different colored threads before tossing it into the river.
		On the Fifth Moon Festival, a glutinous rice pudding called Zongzi was eaten to symbolize the rice offerings to Qu Yuan.
		Ingredients such as beans, lotus seeds, chestnuts, pork fat and the golden yolk of a salted duck egg were often added to the glutinous rice.
	www.chinavoc.com /festivals/Dragonboat.htm (615 words)

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