Why eat dumplings on Dragon Boat Festival

Everyone has always thought that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings is to commemorate the Qu Yuan, this is a misleading us for a long time, here I put my answer and talk about the statement, we judge.

First of all, the dumplings were originally rice planting production place of a food, why the Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, correctly why is the Dragon Boat Festival to do dumplings with the cultivation of rice has a lot to do. Thousands of years in the south of China's rice production areas have been drinking the Dragon Boat Festival wine down to the rice planting tradition. Rice planting in rice planting is a very hard labor, squatting in the cold water field all day all day labor is a serious test of the human body. So to be prepared before, in the Dragon Boat Festival when there is a need to drink xionghuang wine, which has two effects, 1 to improve the body's resistance to long hours of labor in the cold paddy fields, 2 drink xionghuang wine body has xionghuang components to make the paddy fields to the harm caused by locusts and poisonous snakes have a certain degree of defensibility. Of course, there are some other benefits of the overall is the Dragon Boat Festival drink xionghuang wine reasons.

Then why do you make a lot of dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival? To know the answer to this first of all also need to know the hard work of transplanting rice seedlings, transplanting rice seedlings in the whole production process of the short duration of the task, the daytime labor process is generally no time to sort out the mud stains all over the body to go home to eat. Only with dry food. But the wet weather in the south of the general dry food is not good to save, even if you can save can not be brought to the fields full of mud and sewage, but our industrious ancestors invented a food, it is not afraid of water and dirt stains that can be preserved for a longer period of time, dropped in the water is also fine (does not affect the taste) sweet taste, we must have thought of what this thing is, right! It is dumplings. It meets all the requirements of a great fast food. So in order to be in the Dragon Boat Festival long after the need must be in the Dragon Boat Festival a large number of production of rice dumplings, boiled and put in a bucket of water (will not be bad) until after the festival labor will be brought when the lunch. This is the origin of the great food of zongzi.

As for why called dumplings, but also with the rice-planting labor, in the process of rice-planting, the field is generally rectangular, and the direction of rice-planting will generally not be horizontal will be vertical labor, a piece of land is generally fast plugging the end of the time will be left with a small triangle of land (because the ground is generally not square) it is the last work, plug the whole piece of the field will be the end of the field can rest for a while to eat something. Something to eat. And this small piece is called the vertical character (the south is now also called so in many places). Zongzi, dumplings, pronunciation is the same, meaning inserted into the vertical character can eat dumplings.

Later, some people are not engaged in rice production, but in the Dragon Boat Festival on this day will eat zongzi, but forget that this is the working people's dry food into a memorial to someone's offerings (because the speakers are cultural people aristocrats do not have to labor) may be qu yuan coincidentally caught up with this day also jumped into the river, but the majority of the working people will not be to commemorate the death of a local state of a subject to invent a special food (the world does not have). But the laboring masses would not invent a special food item to commemorate the death of an official of a local country (nor would the world).

So we, the children of China, eat up this great food dumplings today. Should know to miss our hard-working and intelligent ancestors. Knowing that food is hard to come by, as the saying goes, who knows what's on the plate, every grain is bitter

Written before the Dragon Boat Festival, I hope that the netizens widely spread

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