In 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu State, faced with the pain of national subjugation, was filled with grief and indignation. On May 5, he threw a big stone into Guluo River. In order not to harm his health, people put rice in bamboo tubes to attract fish and shrimp to eat. Later, in order to show respect and memory for Qu Yuan, on this day, people put rice in bamboo tubes and offered sacrifices. This is the earliest zongzi in China-

Why did you wrap zongzi with wormwood leaves or reed leaves and lotus leaves later? There is such a record in the Elementary Book: During the Jianwu period of the Han Dynasty, Changsha people dreamed of a man who called himself Dr. San Lv (the official name of Qu Yuan) at night and said to him, "Everything you sacrificed was stolen by the dragon in the river. In the future, you can wrap it with wormwood leaves and tie it with colorful silk threads. Dragons are most afraid of these two things. " So people wrapped the millet in "wild leaves".