The purpose of the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings and the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings intention

(1) This is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, and there are many different patterns. The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, usually the day before the zongzi package, cooked at night, eaten in the morning.

(2) Zongzi mainly with the river and pond side of the young grass reed leaves, some areas also use bamboo leaves, collectively known as zongzi leaves. The traditional form of zongzi triangle, generally named according to the inner flesh, wrapped in glutinous rice called rice zongzi, rice mixed with small beans called small bean zongzi, mixed with red dates called jujube zongzi, collectively known as glutinous rice zongzi.

(3) jujube dumplings resonate with "early in", so eat the most jujube dumplings, intended to read the children ate can be early in the scholar. In the past, readers to participate in the day of the imperial examinations, the morning to eat jujube rice dumplings, to date, secondary school, university entrance exams in the morning, some parents have to do jujube rice dumplings to the candidates to eat.

2, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

(1) Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, initially for the ancient Baiyue region (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and south of the tribes worship dragon totem totem festival, the Baiyue land in the Spring and Autumn period before the fifth day of May of the lunar calendar in the form of a dragon boat race held in the custom of tribal totem sacrifices.

(2) Later, because of the Warring States period of Chu (now Hubei) poet Qu Yuan in the day to hold the stone jump Miluo River to kill themselves, the rulers in order to set up a loyal and patriotic labeling will be the Dragon Boat Festival as a memorial to Qu Yuan; part of the region also commemorates the Wu Zixu, Cao E, and other sayings.