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toppy
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 Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 8:10 am Post subject: Hello, everybody. |
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I am a boy, I am a Taiwaness.
In Taiwan, I like the Dragon Boat Festival most.
At that day, I can eat Zongzi and watching the Dragon Boat game on Tv, that is very exciting.  |
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masaco
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject: RE: hi everyone |
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| what is Zongzi ? |
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gingersoup
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 12:24 am Post subject: Re: RE: hi everyone |
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| masaco wrote: |
| what is Zongzi ? |
Rice Dumplings (Zongzi)
The story of Qu Yuan shows us the legend of a tasy glutinous rice dumpling called Zongzi, a popular specialty consumed during the Dragon Boat Festival. According to the tale, the spirit of Qu Yuan appeared before a group of fisherman, crying out to them that he was starving because a dragon was eating his rice offerings.
The offerings consisted of bamboo tubes filled with gluttinous rice. In order to prevent the dragon from stealing them, Qu Yuan ordered the tubes to be closed with lily leaves adn tied with multi-colored threads.
Today's Zongzi is made similarly, with a serving of rice wrapped in leaves and tied together with string. The way the string is wound and kontted tells waht ingredients are inside.
There are a lot of different kinds of zongzi, each with its own particular flavor, shape, and type of leaf for wrapping. Zongzi is usually four-sided with pointed, rounded ends, or pyramid shapes. Sometimes it is in the shape of a cone or cylinder. The glutinous rice mixture us wrapped in leaves of wild rice, palm or bamboo. Bamboo-leaf zongzi is a specialty of South China.
As for flavor, the Beijing style is the sweetest, with coarse bean paste. Guangdong zongzi is either sweet-tasting, with walnut, date or bean, or salty with filling ham, egg, meat, roast chicken.
----http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kyfoo/chinese/zongzi.html
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szmeill
Joined: 16 Nov 2004
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Location: Suzhou,China
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I like Zongzi too. Now, in china, not only on the festival,you can eat many delicious food at any moment. i often eat Zongzi with sweetened bean paste or meat and Tangyuan which is eaten on festival of lanterns and mooncake eaten on Moon festival .
There are a lot of delicious food in China, welcome your arriving.
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dream-better
Joined: 29 Nov 2004
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Your word make me remember my childhood.
At every Dragon Boat Festival,my mother tied the colourfull silk threads on my wrists,ankles and neck.It was so beautiful for me -a artless at that poor years.Additional ,on Dragon Boat Festival we can get eggs and new clothing.My hometown is near to the south in China and it is hot at Dragon Boat Festival.We little girl would have new jupe at that day.It was a twinkling views in the needy viliage and it was also a nice dream of us.For the dream,we expected the Dragon Boat Festival a month before and accounted the remainder days every day.Those days were so simple and happy.Now my hometown has become dicty and no children will be long for the eggs and new coats.They can have those momentaly if they like.But I will yearn my childhood for ever. |
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