What is the meaning and symbol of Zongzi?

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is generally believed that several people cured the epidemic in memory of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. According to legend, in 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of the State of Chu, faced with the pain of national subjugation, was filled with grief and indignation. On May 5, he threw a big stone into the Guluo River.

In order to prevent fish and shrimp from hurting his body, ordinary people put rice in bamboo tubes and threw it into the river. In the future, people will put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to pay homage to Qu Yuan. This is the origin of China's earliest zongzi-"tube zongzi".

2. "Zongzi" drives dragons

During the Jianwu period, Changsha people dreamed of a man who claimed to be Dr. San Lv at night and said to him, "Everything you sacrificed was stolen by the dragon in the middle of the river. In the future, it should be wrapped in mugwort leaves and tied with colorful silk thread. Dragons are most afraid of these two things, so you don't have to worry about being destroyed by dragons! " So, people made "corn millet" with "leaves wrapped in millet".

Step 3 find children

During the Dragon Boat Festival, people will give each other nine zongzi, which means begging children. Jiuzi Zongzi is a kind of Zongzi, that is, nine Zongzi are connected in a string, big and small, the big one is above and the small one is below, with different shapes and very beautiful. Because "Zongzi" is homophonic with "neutron", people have the custom of eating "Zongzi" to have a son. "Zongzi" is the homonym of "many sons", which means that people are prosperous.

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The origin and legend of Dragon Boat Festival: Duan means "beginning", which means the beginning of everything. In ancient China, at noon, heavenly stems and earthly branches was used to record the year, the earth branch recorded the month, January was cloudy, and February was epidemic. Future technology is the foundation, and May is the afternoon, so May is the afternoon month, and the Dragon Boat Festival means the beginning of the afternoon month.

"Five" is connected with "noon", which means summer, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called May Festival, Ai Festival and Summer Festival. Because you step into "Yang Chen" in the afternoon and it ends in summer, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". It's the fifth day of this month, so it's called the five-fold festival.

It's midsummer, and Buddhism is in the middle. At this time, the ancients bathed in bluegrass soup to ward off evil spirits, "bathed in bluegrass soup in the afternoon" and "bathed in bluegrass, but dared not bathe in flowers", so the Dragon Boat Festival was also called the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Blue Bath Festival. There are reasons why it is called Daughter's Day, Poet's Day and Dragon's Day.