Zongzi is the Dragon Boat Festival festival food, the ancient name of "corn", legend has it that it was invented for the sacrifice of Qu Yuan and cast the river, is by far the deepest cultural accumulation of traditional food in Chinese history. The following is my collection of the origin of the dumplings, welcome to read reference!
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings
The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is China's traditional festival "Dragon Boat Festival", and eat zongzi on this day is the traditional custom of our Chinese people. Zongzi people also call it "corn", "tube zongzi", is the Dragon Boat Festival Han's traditional festival food, by the zongzhi leaves wrapped in glutinous rice steamed and become. Legend has it that it was passed down in honor of Qu Yuan, and is the most culturally rich traditional food in Chinese history. Until now people still follow this traditional custom, every early May, the streets and alleys are selling brown. Chinese people have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, this custom has also been across the ocean, spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.
So the custom of eating rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival, where did it come from? Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of Qu Yuan, a minister of Chu during the Warring States period. Qu Yuan is a great patriotic poet, he actively advocated the state of Chu to unite with the state of Qi, to fight against the state of Qin, his views were not adopted, but instead, he was dismissed from the government, sent to a remote place.
When Chu was about to fall, Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. After Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the people of Chu threw delicious food into the river in order to prevent the fish, shrimp, turtles and crabs from eating Qu Yuan's body. Year after year, in order to honor the patriotic poet, every Dragon Boat Festival, the people will throw food into the river to worship Qu Yuan. One night, an old man dreamed of Qu Yuan and asked him: "We threw so much food to you, did you eat it?" Qu Yuan said, "All the food you gave me was eaten by those fish, shrimp, turtles and crabs." The old man asked, "How can I avoid being eaten by them?" Qu Yuan said: "You use bamboo leaves to wrap up the rice, made into a rhombus-shaped pointy rice dumplings, they think it is a rhombus will not dare to grab and eat." The next year's Dragon Boat Festival, the people according to what Qu Yuan said, to Miluo River, cast the sharp corner of the zongzi. However, after the Dragon Boat Festival, Qu Yuan sent another dream to the old man, saying, "Thank you for sending me so many zongzi, which I ate. But most of them are still eaten by the fish, shrimp, turtle and crab."
The old man asked Qu Yuan: "What else can be done?"
Qu Yuan said: "The `boat that delivers the zongzi should be dressed up as a dragon, because the fish, shrimp, turtles and crabs are under the jurisdiction of the dragon, and they don't dare to eat the dragon king's things."
Since then, every year on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people rowed a dragon boat to Miluo River to send zongzi. This is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings rowing dragon boat.
This custom has been passed on for thousands of years, until today, the beginning of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, the Chinese people have to dip the glutinous rice, wash the zongzi leaves, wrapped in zongzi, and its color varieties are more varied. The custom of eating zongzi has been prevalent in China for thousands of years.
The Dragon Boat Festival zongzi story
Eating zongzi. This is one of the important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, originating from the worship of Qu Yuan. Wu Jun "renewed Qi Harmonious Records" recorded: Qu Zi cast into the water, "Chu people mourn, to this ......
Eat rice dumplings. This is also one of the important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, originated in the worship of Qu Yuan. Wu Jun "renewed Qi Harmony Records" recorded: Qu Zi cast water, "Chu people mourn, to this day, to bamboo tube storage rice, cast water sacrifice." The purpose is to let the water
animals eat their fill, they will no longer hurt the poet's body. The later eating zongzi is from eating bamboo tube rice evolved. The Dragon Boat Festival family to eat zongzi. Zongzi to Ruo leaf package made of glutinous rice, in terms of shape, there are triangular zongzi, a corner of the zongzi, square zongzi, there are small zongzi bundled into a string, in the Tang Dynasty, known as the "hundred rope zongzong", the Song Dynasty, known as the "nine children zongzong". Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi custom in the Wei and Jin Dynasties has been prevalent, Zhou Chu's "land record" has been "mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival, cooking washed corn" record. Tang and Song dynasties, dumplings have become famous food, not only for the palace favorite, but also become the folk market and the general public home food. Tang Chang'an specializing in the production and operation of zongzi stores, but also "will be beaten (pile) into the pavilion, pavilion, car all kinds of clever like" to attract customers, "hundred rope zongzong" is still the emperor of the Tang dynasty rewarded the subjects of the famous food. To the Song Dynasty, more types of Dragon Boat Festival dumplings. Ming and Qing dynasties, zongzi filling is also rich up, there is honey, bean paste, pork, pine nuts, jujube, hu (walnut) peach, etc.; Qing dynasty Qianlong years also appeared in the ham zongzi. Today, the dumplings have become a supermarket and folk market of delicious food, every Dragon Boat Festival, it is everywhere "wind and corn incense", traditional culture and harmony retained in modern life.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival of children, they get up early in the morning, they put on beautiful new clothes, wearing a mother-in-law and aunts before the festival for them to make the yellow cloth tiger, monkeys, colorful rice dumplings and other auspicious objects, and the four neighbors of small children together to talk, compare, to see who's wearing a lot of who's the most beautiful. Dragon Boat Festival day, the newly married daughter in law to "go back to the mother's home to wear a straw hat", eat the end of the lunch. End of the lunch is the staple food zongzi, hot Ruo leaf zongzi flavor overflowing, greedy people drooling, talk about the day, laughter and joy, zongzi mixed with sugar, honey, taste the sweet warmth of life.
The pearl is hidden in the belly of the triangular and four-flute long,
If you want to eat the pearl meat, you have to undo the belt and take off the clothes. The riddle is "dumplings". Dragon Boat Festival and is the "Daughter's Day", this day "decorate the little girl as much as the state of the most beautiful, married women also return to the peace, called this day for the Daughter's Day." (Qing - Pan Rong ah: "Imperial Capital Years and Years Jisheng") Dragon Boat Festival (Daughter's Day) to return to the custom, containing filial piety and respect for parents and elders, back to the mother's home to see the meaning. Daughter back to the in-laws, the mother's family to give the daughter, son-in-law gift umbrella or straw hat, to show care; but also to bring some dumplings to the in-laws, one of the in-laws to show friendship, the second is also a dumplings to show the ability.
Dragon Boat Festival zongzi dietary taboos
Dragon Boat Festival is soon to come, zongzi as a traditional festival food favorite, package zongzi reed leaves and lotus leaves are hot summer medicine, even glutinous rice also has the benefit of gas and fluid, the effect of heat. Although the dumplings are delicious and nutritious, but not all people are suitable. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
Glutinous rice is used to make dumplings of the necessary ingredients, rich in B vitamins, can warm the spleen and stomach, tonic Qi. The coldness of the spleen and stomach, poor appetite, bloating and diarrhea have some relief. Glutinous rice has astringent effect, frequent urination, spontaneous sweating also has a good therapeutic effect. Chestnut-filled dumplings with qi spleen, beneficial effects of the kidney; fruit-filled dumplings with laxative effect; and egg yolk-filled dumplings with brain-boosting effect.
However, meat dumplings and lard bean paste dumplings contain more fat, hypertension, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, coronary heart disease patients eat more, will increase blood viscosity, affecting blood circulation, aggravate the burden on the heart and the degree of ischemia, induced angina and myocardial infarction. There are also dumplings that often contain high sugar content of jujube, bean paste, etc., if you do not control, it will damage the pancreatic function of diabetic patients, causing the patient's blood glucose and urinary glucose to rise rapidly, aggravating the condition, and even coma, poisoning and other consequences.
Eating rice dumplings to pay attention to "a high two low"
So, eat rice dumplings to eat less and light some, pay attention to "a high two low". The so-called "a high" is to focus on high fiber, rice dumplings used in the digestive time required for a longer period of time, the gastrointestinal emptying takes a long time, easy to cause excessive stomach acid, bloating or stomach pain and other symptoms of indigestion, so be sure to heat up after eating. If you do dumplings material can be combined with mixed grain rice, red beans, barley, yam, taro or sweet potato, not only can increase the fiber content, reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines, more beneficial to health.
As for the "two low" is low oil and low-calorie, meat dumplings is the main character of the dumplings, but its defect is the high content of saturated fat, so in the selection of rice dumplings should not be combined with greasy food, to do meat and vegetables, chewing slowly. For cardiovascular patients, avoid eating meat dumplings, low-fiber health dumplings should not be eaten.