Are You a Rice Dumpling Master?
Experience Dragon Boat Festival Culture in Homes Strictly Guarded from COVID-19
Publisher： Release time：2021-06-18
Do you know how to make rice dumplings? And will you learn from rice dumpling masters in your neighborhood on Dragon Boat Festival? In Binjiang Property residential quarters, there are numerous rice dumpling masters. A person who loves cook for himself must be a gourmet with the love of life.
“Proprietors of Qiandao Lake prefer rice dumplings stuffed with chestnut and meat, candied Chinese date and meat, sweet red bean paste, and tofu and meat. I’ve tried several of them and they all tasted very good. Our proprietors also make rice dumplings even when it isn’t the Dragon Boat Festival. They are all gourmets,” said Manager Chen of Qiandao Lake Division when talking about local rice dumplings.
According to director Zhu of Quzhou Chunjiangyue, rice dumpling is a kind of specialty of mothers in Quzhou and every Quzhou family will make rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival. Quzhou people love rice dumplings stuffed with meat. At this year’s Dragon Boat Festival activity, the property management staff organized a quickest rice dumpling maker game and fueled proprietors’ enthusiasm for the festival.
“Proprietors in Jinhua love those with meat or made of glutinous rice and peas, which is of strong local characteristic. Rice dumplings stuffed with ham are usually given to others as gifts,” said assistant Zhu of Jinhua Golden Landing when referring local rice dumplings.
Assistant Li of Hangzhou Noble Lake said that there are at least 40 or 50 rice dumpling masters in the residential quarter and that rice dumplings stuffed with meat, candied Chinese date, and sweet red bean paste were major choices in this year’s Dragon Boat Festival activity of the residential quarter.
Hangzhou people favor rice dumplings stuffed with meat and with sweet red bean paste. Director Han of Hangzhou Lake Villa told that people at Xianghu prefer those stuffed with meat and with salted egg yolk. In Shanghai, rice dumplings stuffed with meat, sweet red bean paste, candied Chinese date, and salted egg yolk are the most popular among people there who have similar tastes with Hangzhou people. In recent years, more flavors of rice dumplings have been created and accepted, offering Chinese people more choices of Dragon Boat Festival cuisine.
Dragon Boat Festival is the first traditional Chinese festival recognized as World Intangible Cultural Heritage and has various traditions and customs such as hanging mugwort and calami, wearing sachets, drinking realgar liquor, carrying a connotation of warding off epidemics and preventing evilness and illness. This year, in the context of COVID-19 epidemic, to form a firm defense line against COVID-19 becomes a particular routine of Dragon Boat Festival to tally with its connotation. While organizing Dragon Boat Festival activities for proprietors, Binjiang Property also practically implemented epidemic prevention measures and reminded proprietors to wear masks and keep social distance for proprietors’ health’s sake, so as to truly embody the connotation of the festival.
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