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Eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, most of them say that it is to commemorate Qu Yuan, but in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are also zongzi to commemorate Wu Zixu, and the famous Jiaxing zongzi is related to Wu Zixu.

Eating zongzi originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and people gradually passed it down to commemorate Qu Yuan, the doctor of Chu State.

1. Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that when the Qin army broke through the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan, who was heartbroken by the power of the non-nuclear finch to save the country, chose to write the masterpiece "Huaisha", and committed suicide by throwing himself into the river as if he were throwing a stone.

2. When people learned of this, they came to the river to row boats and salvage, but found nothing. In order to prevent the fish and shrimp in the river from eating his body, people have taken rice balls and threw them into the river. When the reserve family came to the beginning, the custom of eating zongzi was formed.

1. Eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan in the fifth day of the fifth month of May to throw himself into the Miluo River, after his death for the dragon trapped by the dragon, the world mourns, every day with zongzi leaves wrapped rice, made into a piece of zongzi, and then cast a good noisy boy to the river to feed the fish and shrimp to eat, hoping that through this method, Qu Yuan's body can not be harmed.

2. The practice of zongzi. Glutinous rice, yellow rice and millet are the most important ingredients for zongzi, and glutinous rice is the most widely used, and yellow rice and millet are mostly popular in the northern region. Chestnuts, red dates, Huayou Wang Shengmi, red beans, dates, bacon and other ingredients, different customs and ingredients in different places have different meanings, and the things put in also have their own merits.

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. Legend has it that in 340 B.C., Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu, faced the pain of losing his country, and on May 5, he threw a big stone into the Luojiang River with a big stone in his arms.

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 is used to worship ancestors and gods, because the ancients believed that May 5 is an evil month and an evil day, and Bi Senchang must hold a sacrifice on May 5 every year to live this Qi to remove the 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.