The symbolism of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival includes: driving away the dragon, commemorating Qu Yuan, seeking a son, winning the merit and honoring the ancestors.
1, to drive away the dragon
"The Chronicle of the First Learning" has this record: during the Jianwu years of the Han Dynasty, Changsha people dreamed of a man in the evening, claiming to be the Sanlu Dafu (Qu Yuan's official name), and said to him: "You sacrifice things, are stolen by the dragon in the river, and in the future, can be used in ai leaves, live, tied up in five-color silk thread, the dragon, the dragon, the dragon, the dragon and the dragon, and so on. silk thread to bind them, the scaly dragon is most afraid of these two things, so that you don't have to worry about being destroyed by the scaly dragon again!" So, people will "Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet", made "corn". Passed down from generation to generation, and gradually developed into China's Dragon Boat Festival food.
2, in honor of Qu Yuan
Legend has it that, in 340 BC, the patriotic poet, the Chu state doctor Qu Yuan, faced with the pain of the country's demise, on the fifth of May, angrily embracing a large stone thrown into the river, in order to not make the fish and shrimp damage to his body, people have to use a bamboo tube loaded with rice into the river. Later, in order to express the reverence and remembrance of Qu Yuan, every day, people will use a bamboo tube filled with rice, throw the river to pay tribute, which is the earliest zongzi - "tube zongzi" origin.
3, the son
The Dragon Boat Festival, people will give each other nine son of zongzong symbolizing the son. Nine dumplings is a kind of dumplings, that is, for the nine dumplings connected to a string, large and small, large in the upper, small in the lower, different shapes, very nice. And nine colors of silk thread tied together, forming a colorful. Nine dumplings are mostly used as gifts for friends and relatives, such as mothers to married daughters, mothers-in-law to the newlywed gifts, because "dumplings" resonate with "in the son", the folk have eaten "dumplings
4, merit in
Because the "dumplings" and "in" sound close to the meaning of "merit in", in ancient times, symbolizing the bachelor's degree. Usually, the ancient imperial examinations were held in the fall, so in the Dragon Boat Festival, people who want to get the first place in the examination can eat rice dumplings to symbolize the first place in the examination.
5, Guang Zong Yao Zu
Because the "zong" and "zong" sound close, so the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi moral take "Guang Zong Yao Zu", so the family of the family to take the "zong", so the family of the family to take the "zong".
Because "zong" and "zong" sound close to each other, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival symbolizes taking "honoring the ancestors", so people in every household eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival.