Dragon Boat Festival why to wrap dumplings Dragon Boat Festival is what reason to wrap dumplings

1, Dragon Boat Festival dumplings to eat dumplings is to commemorate Qu Yuan.

2. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu mourned abnormally and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river. One fisherman took out the rice balls and eggs prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river. He said that the fish, lobsters and crabs would not bite the body of Dr. Qu if they had enough to eat. People see have followed suit. An old doctor brought a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear of rice balls for the dragon to eat, people came up with neem leaves wrapped rice, wrapped around the colorful silk, the development of brown.

3, zongzi variety, from the filling, the north has a package of small jujube Beijing jujube zongzi; the south has green beans, pork, bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushrooms, egg yolks, and other fillings, which is represented by the Guangdong salted meat zongzi, zongzi in Jiaxing, Zhejiang as a representative of the zongzi.