On what festival do we eat zongzi?

Eating rice dumplings is the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Noon Day Festival, the May Festival, etc.

"Dragon Boat Festival" is one of China's national statutory holidays and has been included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a festival for the Chinese people to cure diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in the land of Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat racing on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became

A traditional Chinese festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating rice dumplings, drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus, mugwort, moxa leaves, smoked atractylodes and angelica, and racing dragon boats.