1, the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings is to commemorate the great patriotic poet - Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after the Qin army attacked the capital of Chu, Qu Yuan chose to write his last words "Huai Sha" and threw himself into the river with a stone in his arms because he was unable to save his country.

2. When people learned about this, they came to the river and rowed boats to salvage it, but they found nothing. In order to prevent the fish and shrimp in the river to eat his body, people have to bring rice balls into the river. Later, the custom of eating rice dumplings was formed.