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Different styles of Zongzi

Updated: 2014-05-28 07:00
By Ye Jun and Pauline D.Loh (chinadaily.com.cn)

Different styles of Zongzi

People make zongzi to welcome Dragon Boat Festival at a nursing home in Jing'an county,East China's Jiangxi province, June 8, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]

But the huge variety of zongzi south of the Yangtze River makes zongzi so much more a South China food. Other than jujubes, southern dumplings are stuffed with ham, braised pork, salted egg yolk, chestnut, fragrant mushroom, barbecued pork, and the ubiquitous red bean paste.

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