1 About the origin of Zongzi in the AD. In 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of the State of Chu, faced with the pain of national subjugation, threw a big stone into the Guluo River in grief and indignation on May 5th. In order not to make fish and shrimp hurt his body, people put rice in bamboo tubes into the river to attract fish and shrimp to eat. In the future, in order to show respect and memory for Qu Yuan, people put rice in bamboo tubes and put it into a memorial ceremony on this day, which is the origin of the earliest zongzi in China.

2. Why did you wrap zongzi with wormwood leaves or reed leaves and lotus leaves later? There is such a record in the Book of Beginners: During the Jianwu period of the Han Dynasty, Changsha people dreamed of a man who claimed to be Dr. San Lv (the official name of Qu Yuan) at night and said to him: All the things you sacrificed were stolen by the dragon in the river, so you can wrap them with wormwood leaves and tie up the five-color silk thread in the future. The dragon is most afraid of these two things. As a result, people wrapped millet in leaves and made it into corn millet. From generation to generation, it has gradually developed into the Dragon Boat Festival food in China.

3. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, after eating Jiuzi Zongzi in the palace during the Dragon Boat Festival, Long Yan was overjoyed and full of praise, and happily wrote a poem: The flowers at four o'clock were ingenious, and Jiuzi Zongzi strived for novelty. Jiuzi Zongzi: It is a kind of Zongzi, that is, nine Zongzi are connected in a string, big and small, the big one is on the top and the small one is on the bottom, with different shapes and very beautiful. And nine colors of silk thread are tied together to form colorful. Jiuzi Zongzi is mostly used as a gift for relatives and friends, such as a gift from a mother to her married daughter and a gift from her mother-in-law to her wedding. Because Zongzi is homophonic, there is a folk custom that eating Zongzi can give birth to a son, so Jiuzi Zongzi is a symbol of many children and many blessings. Wu Manyun, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, also wrote a poem praising Jiuzi Zongzi: Even a barrel of rice is wrapped in spring, Jiuzi's colorful wisps are tied heavily, and the green leaves are all white, laughing that the cook's lotus root is loose again.