1, commemorate the Qu Yuan

Duanwu eat zongzi, now widely recognized as a, the epidemic has a few healed, to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that in 340 B.C., the patriotic poet, Chu state doctor Qu Yuan, faced with the pain of the death of the country, on the fifth of May, sadly embracing the big stone cast the Bioluo River.

The people, in order not to damage his body with fish and shrimp, have used bamboo tubes filled with rice into the river. Later, in order to express the reverence and remembrance of Qu Yuan, every day, people will use the bamboo tube loaded with rice, throw the river to pay homage, which is China's earliest zongzi - "tube zongzi" origin.

2, "dumplings" to drive away the dragon

Jianwu years, Changsha people dream of a man in the evening, claiming to be the three coccyx, said to him: "you sacrifice things, are stolen by the dragon in the river, in the future to be wrapped in mugwort leaves, bundled up with five-color silk thread, the dragon is afraid of these two things, so you don't have to worry about being 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".

3, the son

Duanwu Festival, people will give each other nine son of rice dumplings to signify the son. Nine zongzi is a kind of zongzi, that is, for the nine zongzi connected to a string, large and small, large in the upper, small in the lower, different shapes, very nice. And because "zongzi" harmonic "in the son", folk have eaten "zongzi" can get son of the custom. "Zongzi" is the "son" of the harmonic, implying that the prosperity of the people.

Extended information:

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and the legend: the end is the "beginning", the beginning of everything means. Wu, ancient China to the combination of heavenly stems and earthly branches of the year, but also to the earth's branches of the month, January for the c, February, the epidemic of the future of science and technology, is the d, in turn, May for the Wu, so May is the month of Wu, Dragon Boat Festival is meant to be the beginning of the month of Wu.

"Five" "Wu" is connected, the time dimension summer, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the May Festival, Ai Festival, Summer Festival. Due to the noon step into the "Yangchen", noon, end of the month, the end of the summer, so the end of the five is also called "Duan Yang". The fifth day of the month five, so it is called the festival of five.

When the mid-summer, the law is in the middle of the day, at this time, the ancients to orchid soup bath stains to ward off evils and disasters, "Noon to orchid soup bath," "bath orchid afraid of Ruifanghua", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Festival of the day in the middle of the day, Bath Orchid Festival. As to why called the daughter of the Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Day, etc., all have reasons.