With the upcoming annual Dragon Boat Festival, over 20 foreigners are heading to Jiaxing County in Zhejiang province to taste dainty Zongzi.

Tony from Scotland and Tanya from Ukraine are washing rice.

The foreigners, from England, Germany, America, Ukraine, India, Mexico, Japan, Egypt, Yemen, Georgia, learned there how to make Zongzi –which involves washing rice, cleaning corn leaves, wrapping rice and fillings into the leaves before steaming it.

Wuduhan from Germany and his wife Amy are seeing how Zongzi is manufactured.

After all the hard work, there was a great sense of satisfaction as they enjoyed their masterpiece. There was no doubt that they were impressed with the ambrosia of the Zongzi. Some were even purchasing rice and corn leaves so they would be able to make it again back in their home country.

A young guy from Yemen is trying to wrap a Zongzi.

Zongzi is a traditional Dragon Boat Festival food. It’s a glutinous rice ball, with a filling, wrapped in corn leaves. The fillings are eggs, beans, dates, fruits, sweet potato, walnuts, mushrooms, meat, or a combination of them. They are generally steamed.

Dragon Boat Festival is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan, a loyal minister that served the King of Chu during the Warring States Period in 3 centuries BC.

In the year 278 B.C., at the age of 37, Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Milo River when he learned that his country was destroyed by the enemy. Knowing Qu Yuan had been lost to the river, locals came up with the idea that if the fishes in the river were not hungry, then they would not eat Qu Yuan's body. People thus began throwing Zongzi into the river to feed the fishes in hope that Qu Yuan's body would be spared.