Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is to show respect and nostalgia for Qu Yuan. Legend has it that in 340 BC, the patriotic poet Qu Yuan faced the pain of national subjugation. On May 5th, he threw himself into the Guluo River with grief and indignation. In order not to make fish and shrimp damage his body, people threw rice into the river in succession. In order to show their respect and memory for Qu Yuan, this is the origin of the earliest Zongzi "Tongzong" in our country.

Zongzi was originally used as a tribute to worship the gods and ancestors during the Dragon Boat Festival. By the Jin Dynasty, it had spread to all parts of the country and was officially designated as the food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Using Zizania latifolia leaves (Zizania latifolia leaves) to wrap the millet into a horn shape, which is called "horn millet"; Rice packed in bamboo tubes is sealed and roasted, which is called "tube dumplings". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the millet was soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contained alkali, the millet was wrapped in leaves to form a quadrangle, and cooked, which became Guangdong Suanshui Zongzi.

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Precautions for eating zongzi:

It is not advisable to drink cold drinks when eating zongzi. Don't drink cold drinks when eating zongzi. Drinking cold things makes sticky rice solidify more easily, which makes people feel stagflation.

It is not suitable to eat zongzi that has just been taken out of the refrigerator. Some people like to put zongzi in the refrigerator and ice it for a while before eating. This kind of zongzi is hard and cold, which is undoubtedly worse for people with stomach problems, so it is better to take it out and fully heat it until it becomes soft before eating.

If you eat zongzi on an empty stomach, glutinous rice will stay in your stomach for a long time, stimulating gastric acid secretion, which may lead to the recurrence of chronic gastritis and esophagitis.