In the festival, we seldom wrap the zongzi. But we all have the habit to eat it. We all know it is for quyuan. But the reason we find in the internet:

Searching the reason of eating zongzi from internet

In the ancient time, it is in the name of jiaoshu, tongzong, which is because it has the angel, inside the rice. Tongzong is previously made by the bamboo boiling. In the weijin time, zhouchu <fengtuji> writes: in the festival, boiling the jiaoshu. In the south dynasty, wujun <xuqijieji>, it also writes quyuan jumping the river, chu country people mourn him. So throw the rice in the bamboo into the river. The shop for it is also in the great skill. There are many stuff, far better than the shumi. Till the song dynasty, it is wrapped by the aiye. Luyou’s poem, sharing the plate, replacing the one aiye branch. It is for the zongzi.

zongzi

In the ming dynasty hongzhi, it is wrapped by the luye, with more stuff, such as sugar, bean power, pork, nut, date, hutao. Till the qianlong in qing dynasty,linlanchi< three poem for the xingjiang> huotui zongzi, to the nowadays.

the zongzi my mother made

Modern zongzi is famous at zhejiang jiaxing. Named as three main food in china together with the yunaxiao and mooncak. The habit eating, continue without stop, moving to japan Koran and Vietnam.