Macau International Dragon Boat Races will be kicked off on 8th June, 2013, which is now become a international event attracting athletes and visitors from home and abroad. On the Dragon Boat Festival, people in Macau and China like eating Zongzi. Dragon boat races and Zongzi are the musts for this big traditional festival.
The Macau International Dragon Boat Races is a widely popular festive activity in Macao during the Dragon Boat Festival, the Macau International Dragon Boat Races have grown to become an important sports event in the territory. Year by year, the event has become larger in scale and attracts an increasing number of participants. Thousands of skilled athletes from home and abroad gather annually in Macao to participate in this significant event. In 2001, the International University Student Dragon Boat races for men and women were included in the programme.
Zongzi
What is Zongzi? How does a Zongzi look like? Zongzi is defined as "Rice Wrapped by Bamboo Leaves or Lotus Leaves", which is an essential food during the Dragon Boat Festival. As the Chinese tradtional festival celebration being popular, Dragon Boat Races and Zongzi become the international event and popular food.
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.
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