Duanwu eat zongzi moral is: successful in the examination, the glory of the ancestors.

1, the symbolism of the CJU:

In ancient times, want to excel, you must participate in the imperial examinations, and can achieve better results, also known as the CJU, after the CJU can be sought after an official position, to achieve career achievements. Therefore, in the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi, in fact, have a high school meaning, because the zongzi "zong" and in the resonance, so the Dragon Boat Festival will eat zongzi, especially in the family college entrance exams, will eat zongzi.

2, the glory of the ancestors:

In ancient times, the family is prominent, if there are some political achievements, is able to honor the ancestors. And the dumplings of the "dumplings" and Guangzong Yaozu "Zong" is a harmonic, some similar, so I hope that after eating the dumplings, the family can get some achievements, some fame and fortune, to be able to do Guangzong Yaozu.

Duanwu other food customs:

1, xionghuang wine: the custom of drinking xionghuang wine at the Dragon Boat Festival, once upon a time in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. Ground into powder andrographis soaked white or yellow wine. Andrographis can be used as an antidote, insecticide. So the ancient people thought that the andrographis can restrain snakes, scorpions and other hundred insects, "good to kill a hundred poisons, dispel a hundred evils, the system of parasites, people wear it, into the mountains and forests and tigers and wolves ambush, into the river and water and a hundred poison to avoid."

2, five yellow: Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow" custom. Five yellow, refers to the yellow fish, cucumber, eel, duck egg yolk, xionghuang wine (xionghuang wine is toxic, generally drink ordinary yellow wine instead of xionghuang wine). There are also other sayings, salted duck eggs can be replaced with soybeans. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, people in Jiangnan called five yellow month.