Early in the morning, everyone was busy preparing for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Many of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are different in various places, but the only thing that is the same is to wrap zongzi and eat zongzi. So everyone in the inn chose their favorite fillings as they said yesterday and prepared to wrap them in zongzi.

Li Mubai didn't particularly care about what kind of stuffing the bread was, whether it was sweet or salty, so he prepared some of the various fillings, ready to taste all kinds of flavors of zongzi.

Everyone will eat zongzi, but not everyone will make it, except for the four squares and the red lady in the inn, others really can't. Especially Huo Xian'er, the eldest lady of the family, her ten fingers do not touch the spring water, she has always been only responsible for eating, but this time she is very interested in making zongzi by herself, which is an experience she has never had.

So Huo Xian'er couldn't wait to say: "Since the materials are ready, let's make zongzi quickly!"

When this is not the case, it is naturally the time for the performance on Thursday, and he coughed lightly: "This bag of zongzi, it is very easy to say, and it is not easy to say that it is not easy, do you know what rice is used to make zongzi?"

Huo Xian'er immediately said: "Who doesn't know this, isn't it glutinous rice, although I can't make it, can't I eat it?"

Zhou Fang nodded, and then continued to ask: "Then do you know that this glutinous rice still has to go through a procedure, and the wrapped zongzi is soft and delicious, and it is tight and chewy?"

Huo Xian'er was stunned: "What other procedures are there? Isn't it directly wrapped with glutinous rice?"

"In order to save trouble, many people do use glutinous rice wraps directly like you said, but after such zongzi is cooked, the rice grains are very scattered, the taste is not good, and the taste is not too good, too greasy. Thursday Fang explained, and then he pointed to the glutinous rice in front of him and continued, "These glutinous rice, I soaked it in water last night, and it was not ordinary water, but water soaked with plant ash, take the clear water on the surface, soak the glutinous rice in it, and this morning I drained the water again, and it became the rice in front of you." ”

Li Mubai sighed: "I can't imagine that there are so many exquisite!"

Li Mubai, like Huo Xian'er, can only eat, where will he wrap zongzi, in his previous life, he always went to buy overcooked zongzi, and he never even cooked it, let alone the doorway here.

Thursday Fang was a little proud, this is what he is best at: "Next, let's talk about how to wrap it, first take two washed dumpling leaves, roll both sides to the middle, and form a funnel, but remember that there must be no gaps in this sharp cone, otherwise the glutinous rice will leak when the next package is made."

The next thing is to put glutinous rice in it until it is stuffed with this cone, remember to press it down with your hand, it must be solid. You either like to add all kinds of fillings, or mix the fillings with glutinous rice before wrapping, and everything else is the same.

Then it is to wrap the part of the dumpling leaf that is higher than the cone, and finally tie it with the prepared rope, so as not to spread the dumpling leaves, you see how I tie it, and this is done. Have you learned?"

Thursday's teaching is easy to understand, and after reading it once, others have said that they have learned it, but when it is their turn to pack, there will always be various problems, such as too much or too little stuffing, and the rope is not tied properly.

Li Mubai is still quite talented in this area, he can get one by dividing five by two, and then become more and more proficient, and then use various fillings to wrap more than ten kinds of zongzi, such as red beans, mung beans, bacon, and egg yolks.

When everyone finished their share, Zhou Fang nodded with satisfaction, picked up the zongzi and walked towards the kitchen: "Since it is all wrapped, there is only one last step left, then put it in the pot and cook, and in some places it is steamed." But I think it's better to cook it, because it allows the fragrance of the leaves to be fully integrated into the rice dumplings. ”

The monkey suddenly realized: "So that's the case, I don't think when I eat it, but when I hear you say this, it's no wonder that when I eat it, I feel a little different." ”

"Okay, just wait. Thursday Fang covered the pot and suddenly slapped his forehead, "By the way, I almost forgot, in addition to zongzi, we will cook salted duck eggs and garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival here, and the garlic should be whole, I will put some in it now, and after the sacrifice is over, we can eat it." ”

Li Mubai asked puzzledly, "Do you want to sacrifice?"

In the city, Li Mubai hasn't seen anyone who will sacrifice during the Dragon Boat Festival, but he has only faintly heard about it.

The red lady said as a matter of course: "Of course, most festivals have to sacrifice to the sky, and the Dragon Boat Festival is no exception." ”

Li Mubai blurted out: "Isn't the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan?

"Who is Qu Yuan, and why do you want to commemorate him?" Tang Liuxiang asked rhetorically, "Have you heard of it?"

"No!" everyone else shook their heads.

Then everyone looked at Li Mubai, Li Mubai scratched his head in embarrassment, he forgot for a moment that this was not the earth: "It is a sage from us who is said to have died on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, so there is this festival to commemorate him." ”

The monkey denied: "I don't know how this Dragon Boat Festival came about, and I haven't read it in the book, but I haven't heard of it because it's to commemorate whom?"

In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival in China did not commemorate Qu Yuan at the beginning, in fact, there has been this festival for a long time, but it is only popular in the Jingchu area, and later Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on this day, in order to commemorate Qu Yuan, he invented zongzi and threw it into the river, so as not to Qu Yuan was eaten by fish, and then the two gradually combined, and gradually spread.

"We haven't heard of it either. ”

"Then I guess it's like this in our area!" Li Mubai said.

The others didn't think much about it, and the red lady said: "In our town, in addition to these, there are some customs, see the wormwood and calamus at the door and by the window, it is said that it is to get rid of mosquitoes, ants, insects and snakes, and also to get rid of diseases, malaria and other effects." ”

Everyone knows that this is for Li Mubai and Huo Xian'er, and only the two of them are celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival here for the first time.

Tang Liuxiang added: "There is also realgar wine, which is not only used when worshipping the sky, but also sprinkled on the body, and drinking a cup is also about the same effect." ”

Li Mubai sighed: "I can't imagine that there are so many exquisiteness. ”

"It's not much of a thing, I've seen it in other places before, like dragon boat racing, lion dances and so on, but it's quite lively. ”

Before Tang Liuxiang came here, he had been to many places, so he naturally knew some things that everyone didn't understand.

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