Eating zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan, eating mooncakes is to celebrate the overthrow of foreign domination, eating dumplings to express the people love the beauty of family reunion. At the same time, it also shows the Chinese people's inheritance and love for traditional festivals, as well as a love for Chinese culture.
In honor of 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 a large stone thrown into the Buro River, in order not to make the fish and shrimp damage to his body, people have to use bamboo tubes filled 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.
Mid-Autumn Festival to eat mooncakes is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang leadership of the Han people against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, agreed to the August 15 this day of the uprising, in order to give each other mooncakes in the method of the note sandwiched between the mooncakes to pass the message. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and although the Qing Dynasty later came to dominate China, people still celebrated this festival to symbolize the overthrow of foreign rule.
The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengmu, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, falls on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon in the year, so the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month for the "Lantern Festival". According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the Upper Elements". Lantern Festival customs since ancient times to the warm and festive custom of watching the lanterns.