The origin of the dumplings is related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the fishermen near Huanluo River heard the news and immediately drove their fishing boats to rescue him. In order to save the remains of Qu Yuan as soon as possible, some of us use wooden boards, stretcher as paddle piece, several people rowing a boat, scrambling, down the river to the Dongting Lake, has not been found.

The people here were worried that Qu Yuan's remains would be eaten by fish, so they used bamboo slips filled with rice and threw them in the water for the fish to eat, so as not to harm him. In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty (1st century A.D.), a man named Qu Hui in Changsha slept during the day and dreamed that Qu Yuan said to him, "I heard that you are coming to sacrifice me, and I am very grateful to you.

But every year the sacrificial rice that everyone throws in the water is snatched up by the scaly dragon. I hope you will stuff the bamboo tube with neem leaves and wrap the outside with five-colored silk thread, for the augur dragon is afraid of these things." Battered back then did as he within words. This is probably the origin of the dumplings that are wrapped in every household on May 5 - the Dragon Boat Festival.

Therefore, every Dragon Boat Festival, the folk have the custom of eating zongzi and rowing dragon boat.