Why do you want to send zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Zongzi is sent on Dragon Boat Festival to show respect and memory for Qu Yuan.

2. According to legend, in 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu State, faced with the pain of national subjugation, was filled with grief and indignation. On May 5, he threw a big stone into Guluo River. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his body, people used bamboo tubes to throw rice into the river. In the future, people will put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to pay homage to Qu Yuan. This is the origin of China's earliest Zongzi-"Tongzong".

It is generally believed that eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. In fact, according to experts' research, eating zongzi is just a common folk food. At first, eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival was not fixed. 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 precisely reflects the wishes of the people. ?

4. Actually, eating zongzi (the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day) originated earlier than eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, and it was formed to commemorate the meson push of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Up to now, many places still have the folk custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day sending zongzi the day before.