Why do you eat zongzi and red eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is now only known to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. However, according to experts' research, Zongzi is just a common folk food, which was not fixed at the Dragon Boat Festival at first. It is said that eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is a sacrifice to Qu Yuan, which is formed by the attachment of future generations and only reflects the wishes of the people. In fact, the origin of eating zongzi (the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day) is earlier than eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, which was formed to commemorate the meson push of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Until now, many places still have the folk custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day eating zongzi the day before.

In addition to eating zongzi, we also have to cook tea eggs and salted eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. Eggs are divided into eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs. The eggshell is painted red, wrapped in colorful net bags and hung around the child's neck, which means wishing the child good luck and safety.

The custom of Dragon Boat Festival:

Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China people for more than two thousand years. Due to the vast territory, numerous nationalities and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names are produced, but also different customs exist in different places. Its contents mainly include: daughter going back to her mother's house, hanging a statue of Zhong Kui, welcoming the ghost boat, hiding in the afternoon, sticking leaves in the afternoon, hanging calamus and wormwood, traveling in all diseases, wearing sachets, preparing sacrificial bowls, dragon boat racing, fighting, hitting the ball, swinging, and painting realgar for children.

Drink realgar wine, calamus wine, eat poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi, seasonal fresh fruits and so on. Except superstitious activities have gradually disappeared, the rest have spread all over China and neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, have made new progress, breaking through the boundaries of time and region and becoming international sports events.