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Division of Reading Pause of Zongzi in Dragon Boat Festival

The reading pause of Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is divided as follows:

On the Dragon Boat Festival, grandma always cooks a pot of zongzi and looks forward to our return. Zongzi//is//wrapped in green bamboo leaves, with//white glutinous rice inside and//a red date in the middle. Grandma//As soon as the lid is lifted//,the cooked zongzi//floats//smells fragrant. Peel off the leaves of zongzi and take a bite. //Zongzi is really sticky and sweet.

Grandma//dumplings//delicious and varied. In addition to//jujube dumplings, there are//red bean dumplings and fresh meat dumplings. We//are at grandma's house//happily//After eating//grandma will//wrap a small basket of zongzi//Let's take it home and share it with our neighbors. //I didn't know until I grew up that people//eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that//is in memory of//the patriotic poet//Qu Yuan.

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Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.