Traditional Cultural Legends in Life In 340 B.C., there was a patriot named Qu Yuan, who was angry and sad when his country was about to fall.

A few days later, Qu Yuan jumped into the river holding a stone.

The people were worried that the fish in the river would eat Qu Yuan's body. They took the leaves of the rice dumplings, put some rice inside, and tied them up with a rope, and threw them into the river for the fish in the river to eat. The people named this food as zongzi. In this way the fish in the river would eat the zongzi instead of Qu Yuan's body.

The people in order to commemorate the love over the hero Qu Yuan, the first five days of May to get for the Dragon Boat Festival, to the first five days of May every year, every family to pack zongzi and eat zongzi.