Zongzi, also known as "Jiaoshu" and "Tongzong", is a traditional festival food of the Han ethnic group during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is made by wrapping glutinous rice with bamboo leaves and steaming. Legend has it that it is spread in memory of Qu Yuan. It is a traditional food with the deepest cultural heritage in Chinese history and is deeply loved by people. Today, I'll teach you how to fold zongzi with colored paper. Let's learn together!

Step 1: Prepare the materials and tools needed for making: colored paper.

Step 2: Select three pieces of colored paper that you like.

Step 3: Choose one of them and fold it in half.

Step 4: After folding, open it. Fold the left side towards the middle line, and do the same with the right side towards the middle line.

Step 5: Fold the bottom - left corner towards the third line, and fold the top - right corner towards the first line. (It must be the bottom - left and top - right!)

Step 6: Fold the bottom part towards the middle line, and fold the top part towards the middle line as well.

Step 7: Fold the top - left corner downwards towards the folded - in corner, and fold the bottom - right corner upwards towards the top - left folded - in corner.

Step 8: This is what it looks like after folding in Step 6.

Step 9: Fold the top - left corner inwards.

Step 10: After flattening, fold the bottom - right corner inwards too.

Step 11: This is what it looks like after folding.

Step 12: Fold the right side towards the left.

Step 13: This is what it looks like after folding.

Step 14: Fold the bottom corner upwards.

Step 15: Turn it around.

Step 16: Fold the top corner downwards.

Step 17: Fold all three in the same way.

Step 18: Take two of them, place one vertically, and insert the corner of the other into the slit of the upper one.

Step 19: Then take another one and insert it into the left - hand corner of the second one.

Step 20: Bend the first one (blue) over and insert the top corner into the slit at the bottom of the third one (pink).

Step 21: It forms a three - dimensional triangle.

Step 22: Turn it over.

Step 23: Insert the corner of one of them into the adjacent slit.

Step 24: Then insert the second one into the adjacent slit.

Step 25: Insert the corner of the third one into the first one.

A zongzi is folded successfully.