Tsung-tzu (pyramid dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves) were first remarked on in the historic lore of old China in connection with a patriotic poet who drowned himself to dramatize the need for reform in the country.
粽子本是古人祭祀詩人屈原用的。最早的「粽子」是用竹筒裝米，後改用蘆葦包成六角形，故稱「角黍」。