It's another year of Dragon Boat Festival. At this time of the year, we will eat zongzi, tie colorful ropes and spend the holidays with our family and friends. I have compiled the most famous stories about Dragon Boat Festival and the origin of zongzi for you. Let's have a look.

The most famous ancient poem of Dragon Boat Festival

The 5th of May (Mei Yaochen)

Qu's family is dead, and the Chu people can't bear it.

I don't want to be slandered, but I want to be a dragon.

I didn't forget my hate before my death, but I didn't chase after it.

Yuanxiang Bitan Lake should take a look at its own peaks.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Zhang Lei)

The race is deeply sad for thousands of years, and the loyal soul can be returned when it is gone.

the country died today, leaving Li Sao in the world.

The Dragon Boat Festival has been completed (Bei Qiong)

When the weather is stormy, the sun will give birth to gloom, and Miluo has nowhere to hang the spirit.

Liu Hua should smile at each other, and wake up alone without wine.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Li Longji)

The Dragon Boat Festival is in the middle of summer, and the days get longer when it is clear.

salt plum has served as a tripod, and it has been sung and passed on.

the past has left a trail, and the years have accumulated.

when the porch knows the lush flowers, it feels the fragrance of Lu to the water.

all the trillions will live together, and all the princes will keep prosperous.

if loyalty is not replaced, it will make Kun Fang faint.

Shixi has been thinking about the Dragon Boat Festival for a long time, watching the engine in front of the inn building.

when the drum is moving, the thunder is faint, and the snow is slight at the head of the animal.

The waves are full of people, and the waves are the first to fly back.

Kong Lung didn't believe me, so he won the championship.

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Zongbao is divided into two buns, and moxa is tied with a dangerous crown.

in the old customs, medicine was stored, and Dan was also given to the body.

when I'm done, I smile at the cups and plates.

The Seven Laws Dragon Boat Festival (Lao She)

The Dragon Boat Festival is full of storms, and the village children are still wearing old clothes.

I invite you to bring me a bamboo hat, and dare to love the thatched cottage deeply for the mud.

there are guests who share the same heart and blood, and they have no money to buy wine and sell articles.

in those days, the fish was three feet, which is not as delicious as beans today.

Shixi has been thinking about the Dragon Boat Festival for a long time, watching the engine in front of the inn building.

when the drum is moving, the thunder is faint, and the snow is slight at the head of the animal.

The waves are full of people, and the waves are the first to fly back.

Kong Lung didn't believe me, so he won the championship. The origin of zongzi in Dragon Boat Festival

The folklore about the origin of zongzi

According to Tang Shenyazhi's Biography of Qu Yuan, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people missed him very much. On the fifth day of May, they put food in bamboo tubes and threw them into the water for sacrifice. During the Jianwu period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (22-55 years), there was a man named Qu Hui in Changsha. In broad daylight, he suddenly saw Qu Yuan, a doctor from San Lv, and said that the sacrificial food had been stolen by the dragon, and he told him that if he threw it later, he had to wrap Polygonum hydropiper leaves and five-color thread. These things were afraid of the dragon and he wouldn't eat them. District Hui told the villagers about this adventure, and the villagers carefully made zongzi according to Qu Yuan's instructions. This custom has been inherited to this day.

This magical legend was first written by Wu Jun, a litterateur of the Liang Dynasty, as a strange novel, which was included in "The Continuation of Qi and Harmony". It shows that Zongzi is a sacrificial food for people to commemorate Qu Yuan, and later it became the most important holiday food for the Dragon Boat Festival. As for why it was thrown into the water, one argument is that it was for Qu Yuan, and the other is that it was thrown into the river to feed the dragon. That is to say, Zongzi is specially used to feed Xiaolong, lest it hurt Qu Yuan's body.

why did you wrap zongzi with mugwort leaves, reed leaves and lotus leaves later? There is such a record in Beginners' Book: During the Jianwu period of the Han Dynasty, Changsha people dreamed of a man who claimed to be Dr. San Lv (the official name of Qu Yuan) at night and said to him, "Everything you sacrificed was stolen by the dragon in the river, so you can wrap it with wormwood leaves and tie up the five-color silk thread in the future. The dragon is most afraid of these two things. As a result, people wrapped millet in leaves and made it into horn millet, which was passed down from generation to generation and gradually developed into the Dragon Boat Festival food in China.

Another way of saying the origin of Zongzi

Folklorists in Shanxi believe that the origin of Zongzi is related to the story of the ancestors of Sanjin in ancient times who managed water.

As an ancient historical figure, according to the textual research of Shanxi historians, Taiqian's water control was earlier than Dayu's, and he was a water control official in Zhuan Xu Emperor's time.

At that time, Taiqian was a flood control disaster, running from north to south to divert Fenshui, and all the way to Lingshi Mountain was blocked. Taiqian led the people to fight on Lingshi Mountain, and the project of opening a mountain and draining water was extremely difficult. People lived and ate in the mountains day and night, and they dug mountains.

At that time, the water was full, there was no way to get through, and there were no boats. (When Yu Wang was in charge of water control, he walked up and down, so he didn't enter the house for three times. According to textual research, Taiqian's water control was earlier than Dayu's, and Taiqian's water control was mainly Fenshui. The history and legend of water control were only circulated in Shanxi, while Dayu was in charge of the Yellow River, so Dayu's water control footprint and achievements were greater than Taiqian's. Every family on both sides of the Fenhe River has laborers working with Taiwan to control water. In order to ensure the timely delivery of food to the construction site and not delay and affect people's food security, people have come up with a way to deliver food by water, wrapping food in bamboo buckets and reed leaves, multiplying it by rafts and sending it downstream to people who control water. On the way, many foods are also eaten by fish and shrimp in the water. With the flow of population, this kind of food soon spread all over the Han nationality. Now in Shanxi, on May 5th, people pay homage to Fen Shentai, and zongzi is among the sacrifices.

Until today, every year in the early May of the lunar calendar, China people have to soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and make zongzi, and the varieties of zongzi are more diverse. From the perspective of stuffing, there are many Beijing jujube dumplings with small dates in the north; In the south, there are many kinds of fillings, such as bean paste, fresh meat, eight treasures, 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 Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.