The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings is as follows:

Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of Qu Yuan, a minister of the State of Chu during the Warring States period. Qu Yuan was a great patriotic poet in China, who actively advocated that the state of Chu unite with the state of Qi to fight against the state of Qin, but his opinion was not adopted, instead, he was dismissed from the government and sent to a remote place.

When the state of Chu was about to fall, Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. After Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the people of Chu threw delicious food into the river in order to prevent the fish, shrimp, turtles and crabs in the river from eating Qu Yuan's body. In this way, year after year, the people in order to honor the patriotic poet, every Dragon Boat Festival day, they will throw food into the river to worship Qu Yuan.

Duanwu Festival Introduction:

Duanwu Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., the date of the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a set of worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrations and entertainment and food as one of the folk festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena, evolved from the ancient times of sacrificing dragons. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared in the center of the south, in the year's most "neutral" position, as the "I Ching" - Qian Gua "fifth line:" Flying Dragon in the sky "

Duanwu Festival originated from the natural worship of the sky, evolved from the ancient times by the sacrifice of the dragon. Dragon Boat Festival is "flying dragon in the sky" auspicious day, the dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of the Dragon Boat Festival heritage.