Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China. The following is a collection of pictures of Dragon Boat Festival compiled by Inspirational.com for your reference.

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The custom of Dragon Boat Festival;

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also called? Horn millet? 、? Jiaozi? . It has a long history and various patterns.

According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped into a trumpet shape by the leaves of zinia latifolia, which was called? Horn millet? ; Put rice in a bamboo tube, seal and bake, and weigh? Jiaozi? . At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contains alkali, the millet is wrapped in leaves into a quadrilateral, and when cooked, it becomes Guangdong sour rice dumplings.

In Jin Dynasty, Zongzi was officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, in addition to glutinous rice, jiaozi also added the traditional Chinese medicine Alpinia oxyphylla. The boiled jiaozi is called. Intelligent jiaozi? . At that time, the "Yueyang Local Records" at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty recorded: The habit is to wrap the millet in leaves, cook it and cook it thoroughly. From May 5th to summer solstice, it is jiaozi and Xiaomi. ? During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, miscellaneous zongzi appeared. Rice is mixed with animal meat, chestnuts, red dates, red beans and so on. And there are more and more varieties. Zongzi is also used as a gift for communication.

In the Tang dynasty, the rice used for zongzi was already? White jade? Its shape is conical and rhombic. Is it recorded in Japanese literature? Datang zongzi? . In the song dynasty, there were? Candied jiaozi? Put the fruit in the jiaozi. The poet Su Dongpo has? See Yangmei in Zongzi? This poem. At this time, there were also advertisements for building pavilions and wooden chariots and horses with zongzi, indicating that eating zongzi was very fashionable in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the wrapping material of zongzi changed from leaves to leaves. Later, zongzi wrapped in reed leaves appeared, and additional materials such as bean paste, pork, pine nuts, dates and walnuts appeared, and the varieties were more colorful.

To this day, at the beginning of May every year, people in China have to soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and wrap zongzi, with more varieties of colors. From the perspective of stuffing, there are many dates in the north, such as jiaozi; There are many kinds of fillings in the south, such as red bean paste, fresh meat, ham and egg yolk, among which Zhejiang Jiaxing Zongzi is the representative. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years and spread to South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. ;