Duanwu Festival such a traditional Chinese festival, let us these foodies excited, in addition to the holiday, is the Dragon Boat Festival's most iconic food - dumplings! Since the senior foodie, love a kind of food, must be the food "disk" clearly.

Mysterious rice dumplings on the origin of rice dumplings, the argument has been very fan. The most widely circulated of the many stories or dumplings are made in honor of Qu Yuan. In fact, as early as the ancient times, dumplings such things have existed. At that time, it was called corn in the north and rice dumpling in the south. Whether it is corn or rice dumpling, in the ancient times, when people's stomachs were mainly filled, the shape was too dramatic, because this kind of food was originally used for rituals.

Horned millet, containing the important ancient crop millet (also known as yellow millet), is shaped like a cow's horn. Millet was an important crop in ancient times, and played an important role in the diet of the people in ancient times, so it was naturally indispensable for ritual occasions. And the cow horn shape in the ritual has a special symbolic significance, so this was produced by the millet rice with wild rice leaves wrapped into the shape of a cow horn tribute.

However, the wild rice leaves themselves are not sticky and cannot hold the shape of the horn by themselves, so they are bound by an external force to keep the shape. Tsubaki rice dumpling is made by cooking rice in a bamboo tube. Rice cannot grow without water, so in the southern rice-cropping areas, people worshiped the water god, Jiao Long, "Throwing bamboo tubes stored with rice into the river to feed the Jiao Long is precisely the ancient activity of the Yue people to sacrifice the dragon, just like the custom of ancestor worship of the Zhou people in the north."

The dumplings, the food world of bondage enthusiasts dumplings and crabs should be regarded as the food world of the two major bondage enthusiasts, but the dumplings of the bondage play more, more doorway. Now we are on the market common dumplings, generally only two kinds, one is the use of cotton thread bundling, a use of Malus grass bundling.

Cotton thread is not "traditional" enough to deserve a name here. We consider the more traditional foods, which generally have to be original, and malus has captured the favor of the food world's bundling enthusiasts with its toughness. Since ancient times, the tough Malus leaves have been an excellent substitute for rope, and have been used to tie vegetables, fish and meat, and crabs are usually tied with Malus. Of course, there is also the Dragon Boat Festival used to tie dumplings.

In fact, with Mascus binding is not the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings the most traditional practice, the most authentic way of binding should be the use of colorful thread bundled dumplings, the Southern Liang people Wu Jun's "Continued Qi Harmonious Records," recorded: "Qu Yuan May 5 cast Miluo water, Chu people sad, to this day to bamboo tube to store rice, throwing water to the sacrifice. Han Jianwu, Changsha District Qu suddenly saw a scholar, since the cloud Sanlu Dafu, said Qu: 'I heard that when you see the sacrifice, very good. The dragon is often stolen by the scaly dragon, if there is a favor, when the neem leaves stuffed with colorful silk wrapped around it. These two things the dragon is afraid of.' I will follow his advice. Today, May 5 for dumplings, and with neem leaves, five flowers silk, the legacy of the wind."