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What to eat at any festival, and who to commemorate.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State (now Hubei) in the Warring States Period. On that day, Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River. In order to establish the label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, the rulers took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated.

Others, such as having a reunion dinner in Tomb-Sweeping Day and eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, have nothing to do with commemorating meson push. We can only say that this festival is related to meson push.