1. The origin of zongzi is mainly to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, and eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival symbolizes a continuation of Qu Yuan's spirit. In 340 BC, Qu Yuan faced the pain of losing his country and threw himself into the Buro River on May 5th. In order not to make the fish and shrimp damage his body, the people have used bamboo tubes filled with rice into the river, which is the origin of the earliest dumplings.
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(1) to commemorate Qu Yuan. Duanwu eat zongzi, now people generally recognized as for, the epidemic has a few people healed, to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that in 340 BC, the patriotic poet, Chu state doctor Qu Yuan, faced with the pain of the death of the country, on the fifth of May, sadly embracing the big stone cast the Bioluo River. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his body, the people have used bamboo tubes filled with rice into the river. Later, in order to show respect and remembrance of Qu Yuan, every day, people will use bamboo tubes loaded with rice, throw the river to pay homage, which is China's earliest zongzi - "tube zongzi" origin.
(2) "Zong" drive the dragon. Jianwu years, Changsha people dreamed of a man at night, claiming to be Sanlu Dafu, said to him: "you sacrifice things, are stolen by the river dragon, in the future to be wrapped in moxa leaves, tied up with five-color silk thread, the dragon is most afraid of these two things, so that you don't have to worry about being destroyed by the dragon again! Thus, people made "corn" with "millet wrapped in Mushroom leaves".
(3) Seek children. In the Dragon Boat Festival, people will give each other nine rice dumplings to symbolize the son. Nine dumplings is a kind of dumplings, that is, for the nine dumplings connected to a string, large and small, large in the upper, small in the lower, different shapes, very nice. And because "zongzi" harmonic "in the son", folk have eaten "zongzi" can get son of the custom. "Dumplings" is the "son" of the harmonic, implying that the prosperity of the people.