What is the moral of eating rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival?

The moral of eating zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, prosperity, honoring ancestors, and high school success.

One, in honor of Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan was a man of Chu during the Warring States period, he could not bear to see his country perish, and threw himself into the Bioluo River on the fifth of May and died. Chu people in order to not let Qu Yuan was eaten by fish and shrimp, scrambling to row the boat to salvage the body, and put their own good rice sprinkled into the river, and since then, every year on the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be a dragon boat race, eat zongzi custom.

Two, thriving

Because the "dumplings" harmonic "in the son", folk have eaten the dumplings can get the son of the proverb. "Zongzi" is also a "son" of the harmonic, implying that the prosperity of the people.

Three, the ancestors

Because the "dumplings" and "Zong" sound close, so the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi implies that the "ancestors", so every family is in the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi.

Four, high school merit

Because the "dumplings" and "in" sound close to the meaning of "high school merit", meaning the bachelor's exams in the merit. Usually the ancient imperial examinations in the fall, so in the Dragon Boat Festival, people who want to take the examination in the first to eat rice dumplings to signify high school.