Eating rice dumplings is a custom of which festival

Eating zongzi is a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The zongzi is steamed food made of glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves, which is one of the traditional foods with the deepest accumulation of Chinese history and culture. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom since ancient times, which has been passed down to the present day. The Dragon Boat Festival not only has the custom of eating zongzi, but also drink xionghuang wine, hanging calamus, artemisia, moxa, fumigation Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, the custom of dragon boat racing.

The origin of eating rice dumplings

The Dragon Boat Festival is generally believed to eat rice dumplings in honor of the great poet Qu Yuan, in fact, according to expert testimony, rice dumplings is nothing more than ordinary folk food, initially ate rice dumplings is not fixed in the Dragon Boat Festival, said that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings is a sacrifice to the Qu Yuan, is the formation of the later attached to reflect the public's heart desire only.

The legend says that in 340 BC, patriotic poet, the Chu state doctor Qu Yuan, faced with the pain of the country, on May 5, angrily embracing the big stone thrown into the Buro River, in order not to make the fish and shrimp damage to his body, the people have to use a bamboo tube loaded with rice into the river. Later, in order to express the reverence and remembrance of Qu Yuan, every day, people will use a bamboo tube loaded with rice, throw the river to pay homage, which is China's earliest zongzi "tube zongzi" origin.