Duanwu Festival dumplings customary origin and moral as follows:

Originality: the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings is to commemorate Qu Yuan's feelings of longing. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu grieved abnormally and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. Some fishermen took out rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that the fish, lobsters, shrimps and crabs would not bite the body of Dr. Qu if they had enough to eat.

People see have followed suit, and then slowly evolved into the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, we have to pack zongzi, will be packaged zongzi less to eat a little bit, most of the zongzi should be thrown into the river, so that the fish and shrimp to eat zongzi, don't eat the body of Qu Yuan.

Memory: First, to commemorate Qu Yuan, the second is to drive away the dragon, the third is to seek children and so on.

Duanwu Festival Introduction:

Duanwu Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., the date of the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a set of worship of gods and ancestors, pray for blessings and evil spirits, celebrations and entertainment and food as one of the folk festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena, evolved from the ancient times of sacrificing dragons. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared in the center of the south, in the year's most "neutral" position, as the "I Ching" - Qian Gua "fifth line:" Flying Dragon in the sky "

Duanwu Festival originated from the natural worship of the sky, evolved from the ancient times by the sacrifice of the dragon. Dragon Boat Festival is "flying dragon in the sky" auspicious day, the dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of the Dragon Boat Festival heritage.