The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, do you like to eat dumplings? Do you know the origin and meaning of the dumplings? The following follow the out of the country I know the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings origin and moral, I hope you like it, just for reference.
Duanwu Festival eating rice dumplings origin
According to legend, these folk activities are in honor of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan is the Chu State Sanlu Dafu, poet, due to the slander of the treacherous ministers, the king of Chu not only did not adopt his United Qi anti-Qin advocates, but also banished him. In 278 B.C., the Qin army attacked the capital of Chu. According to legend, after Qu Yuan threw himself into Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed their boats to rescue him, and they never saw his body until they reached the Dongting Lake.
In order to send their condolences, the people of Chu grieved abnormally, and flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his body on the river. A fisherman took out for Qu Yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish and lobsters and crabs eat enough, will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. People see have followed suit. An old physician to bring a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear that the rice ball for the dragon to eat, people came up with a neem leaf wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, the development of brown.
Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi symbol
1, commemorate the Qu Yuan
Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, is now generally recognized as a commemoration of the great patriotic 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 Bioluo River. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his body, the people have used 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.
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, the future to be wrapped in mugwort leaves, with five-color silk thread bundled, the dragon is most afraid of the two things, so that you do not have to worry about being again things, so that you don't have to worry about being destroyed by the scaly dragon again!" So, people made "corn" with "millet wrapped in Mushroom leaves".
3. Seeking children
In the Dragon Boat Festival, people will give each other nine zongzi to mean seeking children. 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. "Dumplings" is the "son" of the harmonic, 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 a merit in the first person to eat zongzi can symbolize a move in the.
5, Kwan Yew ancestors
Because "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 were held in the fall, so in the Dragon Boat Festival, the people who want to get the first place in the examination can eat rice dumplings to symbolize a move in the first place.