What does Zongzi tell us? Zongzi is one of the snacks with folk characteristics. Zongzi made of glutinous rice is delicious and is a favorite food for many people. In fact, there are many sayings about zongzi. Let's understand what Zongzi tells us.
What does Zongzi tell us? 1 There was a businessman who went through numerous commercial wars, but he was defeated again and again. Exhausted, he decided to visit the temple.
The businessman asked a monk in the temple, "Why can't I turn my business into a profit with all my efforts?"
The monk did not directly answer the entrepreneur's question, but pointed to the young monk cooking next to him and asked the businessman, "How much is a bowl of rice worth?"
The businessman replied blankly, "it's worth a few dollars at most to make a bowl of rice into rice."
The monk shook his head and said, "steaming a bowl of rice with water is really only worth a few dollars." But if you use your head a little, soak the rice and wrap it in zongzi leaves, it may be worth more than ten dollars. "
The businessman nodded. The monk added, "If it is fermented into a bottle of wine, it may be worth tens or even hundreds of yuan."
The businessman was lost in thought, then thanked him and left. Later, after several years of hard work, the businessman finally started a new career and became a well-known entrepreneur.
In fact, most of us are originally a bowl of rice, and there is not much difference. But some people always regard themselves as a bowl of rice, so in the final analysis it is the value of a bowl of rice. And some people, packaging themselves into zongzi, turned over several times at once.
As the saying goes, "clothes make the man, and horses depend on the saddle." Just like shopping. People like to buy goods with better packaging for the same content.
Psychological research shows that the first impression in the first 45 seconds is very important when people meet for the first time. After this first impression is formed, it can occupy a dominant position in the other person's mind and keep it for a long time. This is the so-called first cause effect. This applies to job hunting, making friends and dating. Taking advantage of this effect, the first meeting gives a good impression and can lay a good foundation for further communication.
It is more and more important to learn to package yourself in the workplace. In the workplace, people are a commodity and need constant self-renewal in exchange for higher value. For example, when applying for a job, you should wrap yourself up in your resume so that you can find someone with a higher bid.
When applying for a job, you will leave a good impression on the interviewer and win opportunities more easily if you dress neatly and appropriately, behave dignified, be full of energy and speak freely and clearly.
Meanwhile, not only external dressings are called packaging. In the workplace, what is more important is intrinsic value, which can reflect people's ability, cultivation and other high-level things.
This paper is by no means encouraging opportunism, but trying to explain a truth, that is, under the same strength, why some people can succeed, while others are always mediocre. Packaging must have strength, otherwise it will only become superficial.
Lack of real talent and learning, blindly packaging themselves, or ending up with an imitation, being laughed at; Either you become Mr. Nan Guo, or you will eventually show the cloven foot.
What does Zongzi tell us? 2 The origin and meaning of Zongzi.
When it comes to zongzi, our first reaction is often the Dragon Boat Festival, because I am from the north. When I was a child, zongzi were filled with candied dates. Later, it was found that there were many kinds of zongzi, including ham, pork belly, eight-treasure rice and so on. Let's talk about the making of zongzi to promote agriculture through science.
Statement 1: In memory of Qu Yuan
I believe most people know this statement. Everyone knows that Qu Yuan is a minister of Chu and devoted himself to the country, but the king of Chu listened to the slanderers of Jianning villain and let Chu perish. Qu Yuan was exiled and despaired of his country.
On May 5th, Qu Yuan, worried about the future of the country, threw himself into the Miluo River. In order to prevent Qu Yuan's body from being eaten by fish and shrimp in the Miluo River, the world will put a lot of food in the Miluo River, most of which are rice balls made of millet. Over time, it has become the custom of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival.
There is also a saying that these foods put in the river are for the dead Qu Yuan, but because fish and shrimp always grab food, people wrap rice balls in the shape of water chestnuts with reed leaves, so that fish and shrimp will not grab food if they think they are water chestnuts.
Moreover, they can row dragon boats and scatter zongzi, making fish and shrimp think that zongzi belongs to the dragon king who is in charge of the water world, and these fish and shrimp are even more afraid to grab food. So there is the custom of dragon boat racing and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival.
However, this is just one of the statements about the origin of Zongzi, and there are other statements besides this statement.
Statement 2: Sacrificial Articles
Although the statement commemorating Qu Yuan also shows that Zongzi should be a sacrifice in a sense. However, in this statement, the sacrificial nature of zongzi is more strengthened. This statement lasts longer than the memory of Qu Yuan.
Instead, zongzi existed in ancient times, mainly for offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors. The ancient Chinese paid attention to the theory of yin and yang and five elements, which was reflected in zongzi. In ancient times, the raw material of zongzi was not glutinous rice, but a kind of yellow millet, and yellow belonged to Yang. The leaves used to wrap zongzi are green and belong to yin. And there are mainly five kinds of animals, such as cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and chickens. Zongzi is wrapped in a very similar way to the horn, so it is used as a sacrifice.
Statement 3: abalone cooking
This statement is not so legendary and mythical. The term "cook" has a long history, but it can be said to be the most scientific one. In ancient times, about 500 thousand years ago, primitive people lived without pots and kitchen utensils, and simply used fire to cook food. At this time, food was wrapped in leaves and burned in the fire. After cooking, peel off the leaves and eat them.
Later, after the Stone Age, people could cook food wrapped in leaves in stone pots, which is the embryonic form of zongzi we eat now.
Although there are many sayings about Zongzi, no matter which one, it proves that Zongzi is a part of our traditional culture and needs our serious inheritance.
What does Zongzi tell us? 3 the origin of zongzi.
Zongzi has a long history. In the spring and autumn period, millet was wrapped in mushroom, water and bamboo leaves into a horn shape, which was called "horn millet". Rice packed in bamboo tubes is sealed and baked, which is called "tube zongzi". During the Warring States Period, after San Lv, a doctor of Chu State, and Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, committed suicide by throwing themselves into the Miluo River, people put rice in bamboo tubes to let the fish eat rice instead of biting Qu Yuan's body.
On the other hand, it is a sacrifice to Qu Yuan. Zongzi has always been an indispensable food for the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, Zongzi is also considered to be related to Wu Zixu belief in Jiangsu and other places. According to local chronicles, "It is not Qu Yuan who serves Dr. Wu with zongzi in the afternoon."
"Local Customs of the Western Jin Dynasty" wrote: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, cooking corn." The Book of Qi Yao Min (Volume 9) quoted local custom records to describe Zongzi as "obscuring the image when Yin and Yang are still in the same phase".
During the Southern Liang Dynasty, jiaozi was wrapped on May 5th, and the jiaozi was stamped with neem leaves and wrapped with colorful silk thread. According to the legend that "harmony is different from the continuation of Qi", in the middle of the Jianwu period of Guangwu Emperor, there was a man in Changsha who called himself "Doctor San Lv" and said, "It is very kind to see a gentleman as a sacrifice. Stolen by dragons all the year round. If there is any benefit today, it should be stuffed with neem leaves and wrapped in colored silk. These two things are what Xiaolong is afraid of. "
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First of all, interesting things.
1, the earliest on earth
1988 In September, the cultural relics department of Dean County, Jiangxi Province found two physical zongzi in an ancient tomb of the Song Dynasty. According to research, this is the earliest physical zongzi found in the world.
Located in the suburb of De 'an County, the tomb was buried in A.D. 1274. The owner of the tomb holds a peach branch 40 cm long in his right hand, and two prismatic zongzi are hung on the peach branch.
Zongzi is 6 cm long and 3 cm wide, tied on both sides of peach branches respectively. The skin is zongzi leaves, and ramie is tied. According to experts, the early Zongzi was put in a coffin as a memorial service to show condolences to relatives. Pairing two zongzi symbolizes good luck.
It has the longest history.
Tang Wei Juyuan's recipe includes Xi 'an's honey cold dumplings. It is characterized by using glutinous rice without stuffing, cooking it, cooling it, drawing it into thin slices with silk thread when eating it, and pouring honey and yellow osmanthus sauce-white sugar pickled osmanthus sauce.
Big meat dumplings are produced in Nanning, Guangxi, each weighing about two kilograms. Inside are fat pork and mung beans, which are soft and sweet, but not greasy.
The largest zongzi ever appeared in Zhuang nationality in Guangxi. Its production method is to put banana leaves in an extra-large square cage, mix 50 kilograms of washed glutinous rice with soy sauce, then mix the meat of a pig leg peeled and cut into small squares, cover the surface with a layer of banana leaves, and steam it in water. This kind of zongzi is called "Kouzongba" by Zhuang people, and it can be used for a family to stutter for two months.
According to the Hong Kong media, nine elderly people in Hong Kong once packed/kloc-0 zongzi weighing 36 kilograms for 250 people to eat. 1989 Dragon Boat Festival, Changhua County, Taiwan once made an extra-large zongzi, weighing 350 kilograms. Jiaozi in Guangdong is very big. After cooking, 1 jiaozi served on the table, but none of the four young people could eat.
Third, the volume is the smallest.
The smallest zongzi is found in Shanghai City God Temple, Green Wave Gallery and Lake Pavilion. About an inch long, shaped like a pillow, filled with ham, small and fresh; Huting thinks tea and food are great.
In some restaurants in Shanghai, banquet snacks are served with "mini zongzi", which is as small as a finger. Every 50g of glutinous rice can wrap 4 small pieces of ham. White lines wrap green leaves, delicate and elegant. It really looks like a handicraft, and people can't put it down.
Fourth, the earliest quick-frozen varieties.
1995, Sanquan Food developed the first quick-frozen zongzi in China food industry, and has been persistently promoting the development and innovation of the zongzi industry.