1, the Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings is China's traditional customs, packaged dumplings are mainly with the use of Shuu leaves, Ruo leaves or Mizuno reed leaves, collectively known as zongzi leaves. The traditional form of zongzi is triangular, generally named according to the inner flesh.

2, the shape of the zongzi, reflecting the different regional characteristics. Zongzi not only many shapes, different varieties, due to the different flavors around China, the main sweet, salty two kinds. Sweet water dumplings, red bean dumplings, broad bean dumplings, date dumplings, rose dumplings, melon dumplings, bean paste lard dumplings, date mud lard dumplings and so on. Salty: pork dumplings, ham dumplings, sausage dumplings, shrimp dumplings, meat dumplings, etc., but more pork dumplings.

3, there is also a southern flavor of the Shuu leaf egg yolk meat dumplings (Hainan), mixed rice dumplings, bean paste rice dumplings, mushrooms, etc.; there is also a head of sweet and a head of salty, a dumplings of two flavors of the "double spelling dumplings". These rice dumplings are different flavors with different rice dumplings.

Duanwu Festival

Duanwu Festival is a festival created by the ancient ancestors of the Baiyue people for ancestor worship. Because of the legend that Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5 to kill himself, people later also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival in honor of Qu Yuan; there are also commemorations of Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zi Tui, and other sayings.

Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the south of the Baiyue ancestors to choose "dragon ascension" auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestor, injected into the summer seasonal "disease prevention" fashion, the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month, bad day" in the north of the Central Plains, with the honor of Qu Yuan and other historical figures, the Dragon Boat Festival. Attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures to commemorate the content. Duanwu custom formation can be said to be the product of the fusion of northern and southern customs.

The Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals. The culture of Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. 2006 May, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; since 2008, it has been listed as a national legal holiday.

In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making the Dragon Boat Festival China's first festival to be included in the world's intangible heritage.

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