What is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and why do you eat zongzi?

When it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival in my country, why do you want to wrap zongzi to eat? In fact, our ancestors learned to cook food with fire very early, wrap food in the leaves of large-leaved plants and simmer in the fire or throw them into boiling water to cook and peel the leaves and eat, it was a widespread food custom, it usually occurs in the south where large-leaf plants are widely distributed, and the rice and water are stored in the newly cut bamboo tube, and the barbecue is cooked on the fire, which belongs to the ancient method of making food for the southern rice people, and there is the May Festival, which is also called "the summer solstice festival food dumplings, and the surrounding places are called horn millet, and people take Hsinchu as the tube dumplings". The northern horn millet has been collectively called zongzi with the southern tube zongzi, they were once the sacrificial items of the Dragon Boat Festival, and were used to commemorate Qu Yuan during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

In the Tang Dynasty, millet in the north was gradually replaced by glutinous rice, and it has been passed down to the folk culture of eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. This is also why the Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of wrapping zongzi.

Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Legend has it that Qu Yuan, the doctor of Chu State, faced the pain of Tong's death, and jumped into the river on May 5, and the people of Chu State disturbed the rice and threw it into the river in order to prevent fish and shrimp from eating his body. Since then, in order to show the reverence and nostalgia for Qu Yuan, every day, people will use bamboo tubes to pack rice into the river to pay tribute, which is the origin of the earliest zongzi "tube zongzi" in our country, and then gradually evolved into the current zongzi wrapped in zongzi leaves.

The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. According to the record of "Jing Chu Years Chronicle", because of the midsummer climbing, Shunyang is on the top, May is the midsummer section of Li Tan, its first noon day is the day of ascending Shunyang good weather, so the fifth day of the fifth month of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Midday Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival" and so on.

What is the meaning of eating zongzi

Eating zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival is not only because of folk customs in many cases, but also because of its auspicious meaning, usually eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival means praying for blessings, asking for children, dispelling disasters, etc., the homonym of zongzi is in the middle, which means that the fame is in the middle, and it is a wish for a successful career, so it has the meaning of praying for blessings.

Among them, there is a kind of zongzi called Jiuzi zongzi, people give each other nine zongzi is to ask for children, and finally the zongzi itself has the meaning of sacrificing to the gods, driving away evil spirits and removing disasters, so eating zongzi also means to dispel disasters.

In ancient times, in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, the poet jumped into the Miluo River, Baiye was very sad, and in order for him not to be eaten, he sang the rice balls wrapped in the debate noodles, etc., which evolved into the zongzi that people now call, and eating zongzi now also digs and cultivates a saying of blessing.

1. Origin: Commemoration of Qu Yuan.

Eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is now generally recognized as commemorating the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Shouting Zhongxun legend, in 340 B.C., the patriotic poet and Chu State doctor Qu Yuan, facing the pain of losing the country, on May 5, grief and indignation embraced the big stone into the Luo River.

In order to prevent the fish and shrimp from damaging his body, the common people used bamboo tubes to pack rice into the river. Later, in order to show the reverence and nostalgia for Qu Yuan, every day, people will use bamboo tubes to pack rice, throw themselves into the river to pay tribute, which is the origin of the earliest zongzi in our country.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, zongzi appeared, and in the Jin Dynasty, zongzi was officially designated as the food of the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. Meaning: The original meaning of zongzi was used to worship ancestors and gods, because the ancients believed that May 5 was an evil month and an evil day, and Peilu must hold sacrificial activities on May 5 every year to remove plague, drive away evil spirits, and seek good luck.

With the passage of time and changes, people eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival as a manifestation of inheriting tradition. There are many types of zongzi in different regions, however, the meaning of eating zongzi is the same.

1.The origin of eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Now people only know that this is to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that in 340 B.C., Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and a doctor of Chu, faced with the pain of losing his country, on May 5, he threw his arms or Jian Dashi into the Miluo River in his arms and indignation, and in order not to make the fish and shrimp damage his body, people put rice into the river with bamboo tubes. Later, in order to express the reverence and nostalgia for Qu Yuan, every day, people will use bamboo tubes to pack rice, throw themselves into the river to pay tribute, which is the origin of the earliest zongzi in our country - "tube zongzi".

However, according to expert research, zongzi is just an ordinary folk food, and the original eating of zongzi was not fixed in the Dragon Boat Festival; It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings are sacrificed to Qu Yuan, and they are formed by the descendants of the association, which only reflects the wishes of the people. In fact, in order to commemorate the Spring and Autumn Period of the Jin Dynasty, the "Cold Food Festival" (the day before Qingming) was formed as a folk festival to eat zongzi, and the origin is earlier than the Dragon Boat Festival. So far, many places still pass the folk custom of eating rice dumplings with Qingming on the day before Qingming.

Every traditional festival is a treasure of the Chinese nation, and the folk also circulate the popular poems and ballads about the Dragon Boat Festival, reflecting the importance of the folk nuclear void to the Dragon Boat Festival and the love of this traditional festival of the Chinese nation.