The origin and implication of the custom of making zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival

The origin and meaning of the custom of making zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival are as follows:

Origin: Zongzi is wrapped in Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan's yearning. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. Some fishermen took out rice balls and eggs prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs would not bite the doctor when they were full.

People followed suit after seeing it, and then gradually evolved into the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. We should wrap zongzi, eat less of it, and throw most of it into the river, so that the fish and shrimp in the river can eat zongzi instead of Qu Yuan's body.

Moral: First, to commemorate Qu Yuan; Second, drive away the dragon; Third, we should have a son.

Introduction of Dragon Boat Festival:

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.