The ingredients of Babao Zongzi are glutinous rice, black rice, red beans, mung beans, coix seed, kidney beans, peanuts, red dates and raisins. Eight-treasure zongzi, a famous traditional point, is a food custom for the Dragon Boat Festival. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a memorial to Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet. It is said that zongzi is thrown into the river to be eaten by dragons, so as not to hurt Qu Yuan who died after being thrown into the river.