In ancient times, when Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die for Chu, the people sympathized with him. Because they wanted to salvage Qu Yuan as soon as possible, the people scrambled to row a boat to look for him (which later formed the dragon boat); because they were afraid that the fish in the river would eat Qu Yuan's body if they were hungry, they threw rice balls into the river to feed the fish (which later gradually developed into zongzi).
Qu Yuan (340 BC - 278 BC), a native of Chu during the Warring States period, with the surname Mi, Qu, the name Ping, the word Yuan, with the word line; and in the Li Sao in the self-cloud: "the name of the Yu said that the Zhengzhe Ruoxi, the word Yu said Lingjun". Born in Danyang, Chu (now Yichang City, Hubei Province), is the descendant of Chu Wu Wang Xiongtong's son, Qu Ch'iu, is the earliest Chinese Romantic poet, the first great patriotic poets in the history of Chinese literature to leave his name. His appearance marked the entry of Chinese poetry into a new era from collective singing to individual solo singing.
He founded the Chu Dynasty and the tradition of "Vanilla Beauty". After Wu Qi, another statesman who advocated a change of law in the state of Chu during the Warring States period was Qu Yuan, who was a nobleman of the state of Chu and served as the head of the Sanlu and Zuotu, and was in charge of both internal and external affairs. He advocated the internal promotion of the wise and capable, and the revision of the law, while externally, he advocated the alliance of Qi against Qin. He was later ostracized by the nobles and exiled to the Yuan-Xiang valley.
Note:The dumplings belong to a kind of "籺", which is a kind of tribute that people use to worship the gods and their ancestors on New Year's Day, and it is an ancient traditional custom to make dumplings to worship the gods and their ancestors on New Year's Day. There are many varieties of dumplings, different festivals will do different dumplings, dumplings dumplings is the Dragon Boat Festival to worship the gods and ancestors of the tribute.
The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains "alkali", with Mizuno leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, that is, the Guangdong alkaline water dumplings. Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings is the traditional customs of our country, package dumplings are mainly with Shuusei, Ruo leaves or Mizushu leaves, collectively referred to as dumplings.
The traditional form of zongzi is triangular, generally named according to the inner flesh. There are many shapes of zongzi, reflecting different regional characteristics. Not only are there many shapes and different varieties of zongzi, but due to the different flavors throughout China, there are two main types of sweet and salty. Sweet flavor has white water zongzi, red bean zongzi, broad bean zongzi, jujube zongzi, rose zongzi, melon kernel zongzi, bean paste lard zongzi, jujube mud lard zongzi and so on.
Salty: pork dumplings, ham dumplings, sausage dumplings, shrimp dumplings, meat dumplings, etc., but more pork dumplings. There are also southern flavors of the Shuu leaf egg yolk meat dumplings (Hainan), mixed dumplings, bean paste dumplings, mushrooms, etc.; there is also a head of sweet and a head of salty, a dumplings of two flavors of the "double spelling dumplings". These rice dumplings are different flavors with different rice dumplings.