Zongzi (also known as rice dumpling) is traditionally eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival (Mandarin: Duanwu ; Cantonese: Tuen Ng) which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese Calendar.
Take two or three dumpling leaves 
Use dumpling leaves to form a hollow
Spread a layer of glutinous rice over dumpling leaves
Put in pork/chicken (preferably pork for better taste) 
Put in chestnuts
Put in Chinese mushroom
Spread another layer of glutinous rice to cover the filling
Press hard on glutinous rice
Cover the dumpling with one dumpling leave
Fold the leaves to form dumpling shape
Wrap the two ends with straw to secure
Put all dumplings in a big pot of boiling water. [Need to keep all the dumplings soaking in boiling water all the time.] Cook for about 3 hours until dumplings are cooked. Drain. 
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