1, AD period on the origin of dumplings. In 340 BC, the patriotic poet, the Chu state doctor Qu Yuan, faced with the pain of the country, on May 5, grief and anger in the arms of the stone cast the Bioluo River. In order not to make the fish and shrimp damage his body, people have to put the bamboo tube filled with rice into the river, attracting fish and shrimp to eat. Later, in order to show respect and remembrance of Qu Yuan, every day, people will be bamboo tube loaded with rice, into the sacrifice, which is our country's earliest zongzi - "tube zongzi" origin.

2, the Spring and Autumn period on the origin of the dumplings. According to records, as early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, with Zizania leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of millet"; bamboo tube filled with rice sealed and baked, called "tube dumplings". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, known as the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings.

3, Song Dynasty has "candied rice dumplings", that is, fruit into the dumplings. Poet Su Dongpo has "when in the dumplings see prunes" poem. At this time also appeared with zongzi piled up into buildings, pavilions, wooden cars, cows and horses for the advertisement, indicating that the Song Dynasty to eat zongzi has been very fashionable. Yuan, Ming period, zongzi parcel material has changed from zongmu leaf for Ruo leaf, and later appeared with reed leaf package of zongzi, additional material has appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, jujube, walnuts and so on, varieties are more colorful.

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Traditional customs -

In the traditional festivals, on the folklore of the many complex, or only the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival can be compared to the rituals and customs of the theme of praying for blessings, eliminating disasters, and so on, to send people to welcome the good fortune and blessings, to ward off evil spirits, in addition to the wishes of the people. The Dragon Boat Festival has been evolving throughout history. Dragon Boat Festival in the historical development of the evolution of a variety of folklore into one, Dragon Boat Festival customs are many, diverse, colorful content, lively and festive.

There are differences in the content or details of the customs in different parts of the country due to different regional cultures. Dragon Boat Customs are mainly picking dragon boats, sacrificing to the dragon, picking herbs, hanging moxa and calamus, worshipping the gods and ancestors, washing the herbal water, playing the water at noon, dipping the dragon boat water, eating rice dumplings, putting paper kites, watching the dragon boat, tethering the five-color silk thread, fumigating Cangzhu, Pei Xiangcheng, and so on.