The record of zongzi in history began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, the zongzi wrapped into a horn-shaped, known as "corner corn". The Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Chu "record of wind and soil" said: "the ancients to millet wrapped in masked leaves boiled, pointed horn, such as dumplings palm fronds in the shape of the heart." Also said that every year at the summer solstice and Dragon Boat Festival these two festivals eat this food. According to ancient records, the summer solstice with millet and chicken sacrifices to ancestors, as early as Yin, Zhou. Later, the Dragon Boat Festival with dumplings to worship Qu Yuan, but is the evolution and development of the original custom.
Today, zongzi has developed into a year-round folk flavor cuisine. Due to the different dietary habits of different places, dumplings formed in the north and south of the flavor difference, but one of the famous dragon boat dumplings of the production of Zhengzhou in the Central Plains, but also the south and north of the rich flavors, such as pineapple rice dumplings, black glutinous peanut rice dumplings, mung bean paste rice dumplings, chestnut rice dumplings, cinnamon red bean rice dumplings, purple glutinous rice dumplings, honey dates and yam rice dumplings, barley rice dumplings, barbecued pork rice dumplings, pork dumplings, mushrooms and pork rice dumplings, Taiwan's classic meat dumplings, Hong Kong style abalone rice dumplings, Cantonese-style scallop rice dumplings, Jiaxing egg yolk meat dumplings Jiaxing egg yolk meat dumplings, Su-style golden sand lily dumplings, Beijing-style cinnamon lotus seed dumplings, etc., etc., is to take care of the taste of the people of the country's "aesthetics", and the taste of the many, enough to apply for a Guinness World Records, and is not a whole day clamoring to plunder Chinese culture of the stick country can be compared to?
Now package zongzi or in accordance with the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi in the origin of the Zongzong leaf wrapped in millet cooked, sharp corners, such as zongzong palm leaf heart of the shape of the package zongzi.
The Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi moral
1: drive away the dragon
"Beginner's Record" has this record: the Han Dynasty during the Jianwu years, Changsha people dreamed of a man at night, claiming to be the Sanlv Dafu (Qu Yuan's official name), said to him: "your sacrifices, are stolen by the river in the dragon, the future can be used to wrap it in mugwort leaves, with five-color silk threads, the scaly dragon is most afraid of these two things, so that you don't have to worry about being destroyed by the scaly dragon again!" Thus, people made "corn" with "millet wrapped in Mushroom leaves". Passed down from generation to generation, and gradually developed into our Dragon Boat Festival food.
2: commemorate Qu Yuan
Legend, 340 BC, patriotic poet, Chu Chu, facing the pain of the country, on May 5, angrily embracing the big stone cast the Buro River, in order not to make the fish and shrimp damage to his body, people have to use a bamboo tube loaded with rice into the river. Later, in order to show respect and remembrance of Qu Yuan, every day, people will use bamboo tubes loaded with rice, throw the river to pay homage, which is China's earliest zongzi - "tube zongzi" origin.
Qu Yuan is the warring states chu people, when he saw the country will die, on May 5 to throw the bubbler river and die. The people rowed their boats to retrieve his body and scattered rice into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from attacking Qu Yuan. So there was the Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon boat races, and the eating of zongzi (rice dumplings). Another little-known version of the story is that Qu Yuan was upright during his lifetime, and it was his political enemies who chased his boat in the river, killed him, and put him in a sack deep at the bottom of the river. In order to cover up his crime, he forged a posthumous article called "Huai Sha", and it was rumored that Qu Yuan had committed suicide. But the people in mind, so there is also the Dragon Boat Festival, rowing boats is suggesting that the small people to kill Qu Yuan, dumplings, is a metaphor for the small people will be tied up and put into the water.
3: Seeking Children
Duanwu Festival, people will give each other nine son of zongzi symbolizing the seeking of children. Jiu Zi Zong is a kind of zongzi, that is, for the nine zongzi connected to a string, there are large and small, large in the upper, small in the lower, different shapes, very nice. And nine colors of silk thread tied together, forming a colorful. Nine dumplings are mostly used as gifts for friends and relatives, such as mothers to married daughters, mothers-in-law to the newlyweds, etc., because the "dumplings" resonate with "in the son", folk have eaten "dumplings "can get a son of the custom. "Dumplings" is the "son" of the harmonics, implying that the prosperity of the people.
4: merit in
Because the "dumplings" and "in" sound close to the meaning of "merit in", in ancient times implied that the bachelor's examination in the merit. Usually the ancient imperial examinations are in the fall, so in the Dragon Boat Festival, to get the merit in the first person to eat zongzi can symbolize a move in the.
5: Guangzong yaozu
Because the "zong" and "zong" sound close, so the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi moral take "Guangzong yaozu", so the people of the household All in the Dragon Boat Festival time to eat on the zongzi.
The custom of eating zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival
Duanwu eating zongzi, now people only know that this is to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that in 340 BC, the patriotic poet, Chu state doctor Qu Yuan, faced with the pain of the death of the country, on the fifth of May, grief and anger in the arms of the stone cast the Buro River, in order not to make the fish and shrimp damage to his body, people have to use a bamboo tube loaded with rice into the river. Later, in order to show respect and remembrance of Qu Yuan, every day, people will use bamboo tubes loaded with rice, throw the river to pay homage, which is China's earliest zongzi - "tube zongzi" origin.
Why later with mugwort leaves or reed leaves, lotus leaves package zongzi? So, people will be "Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet", made of "corn", passed down from generation to generation, and gradually developed into our country's Dragon Boat Festival food.
But according to expert testimony, zongzi is nothing more than ordinary folk food, initially ate zongzi is not fixed in the Dragon Boat Festival; said the Dragon Boat Festival food zongzi is sacrificed to Qu Yuan, is attached to the formation of the latter, only reflecting the wishes of the people.
In fact, in order to commemorate the Spring and Autumn period of the State of Jin and the formation of folk custom of the "cold food festival" (the day before the Qingming Festival) to eat rice dumplings, the origin of rice dumplings than the Dragon Boat Festival early. To date, many places still pass the day before Qingming and Qingming food dumplings folk custom.
According to records, as early as in the Spring and Autumn period, with Zizania leaves (wild rice leaves) wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called "corner of corn"; bamboo tube with rice sealed and baked, called "tube dumplings". The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to grass ash water soaked in millet, because the water contains alkali, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a quadrangular shape, cooked, became the Guangdong alkaline water rice dumplings.
Jin Dynasty, dumplings were officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, the package of raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also add the Chinese medicine Yi Zhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yi Zhi Zong". Zhou Zhou, "Yueyang customs and local records" recorded: "Commonly wrapped in millet with Aizome leaves, ...... boiled, and rotten, in the fifth of May to the summer solstice to eat, a zong, a millet." North and South Dynasty period, the emergence of mixed rice dumplings. Rice mixed with animal and poultry meat, chestnuts, jujubes, adzuki beans, etc., more varieties. Zongzi also used as a gift for interaction.
The Tang Dynasty, rice dumplings, has been "white as jade", the shape of the cone, diamond. Japanese literature recorded in the "Tang dumplings". Song Dynasty, there has been "candied rice dumplings", that is, fruit into the dumplings. The poet Su Dongpo has "when in the dumplings see prunes" poem. At this time also appeared with zongzi piled up into buildings, pavilions, wooden cars, cows and horses for the advertisement, indicating that the Song Dynasty to eat zongzi has been very fashionable. Yuan, Ming period, zongzi parcel material has changed from zongmu leaf for Ruo leaf, and later appeared with reed leaf package zongzi, additional material has appeared bean paste, pork, pine nuts, jujube, walnuts and so on, varieties are more colorful.
The zongzi not only shape a lot of different varieties, and around the flavor is also different, mainly sweet, salty two. Sweet water dumplings, red bean dumplings, broad bean dumplings, date dumplings, rose dumplings, melon dumplings, lard dumplings, date mud lard dumplings. Savory flavor has pork rice dumplings, ham rice dumplings, sausage rice dumplings, shrimp rice dumplings, diced meat rice dumplings, etc., but to pork rice dumplings more. In addition, there are southern flavors of the assorted rice dumplings, bean paste rice dumplings, mushroom rice dumplings, etc., as well as a head of sweet and a head of salty, a rice dumplings, two flavors of the "double spelling rice dumplings". These dumplings are to Zaozong different flavors, making the dumplings family colorful.