1, Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi is to commemorate the warring states period of the chu poet qu yuan, qu yuan in the fifth of may this day embrace stone into the river, chu people in order to not let the fish and shrimp bite bad qu yuan's body, with a bamboo tube loaded with rice into the river, used to attract fish and shrimp. Later, people in order to express the Chu state doctor Qu Yuan's reverence and remembrance, every year on this day Chu people will use a bamboo tube full of rice into the river sacrifice, which is also the origin of the earliest zongzi.

2, the earliest zongzi is not what we now see wrapped in leaves, but made of bamboo tubes, the ancient people of the Dragon Boat Festival also gives more to say and content, in the sacrifice of qu yuan, worried about putting into the river bamboo tube rice will be stolen and eaten by the dragon in the river, and so rich in zongzi form, the ancients believe that the dragon is afraid of neem leaves and colorful silk, so the neem leaves wrapped in rice wrapped with green silk winding The people believed that the dragon was afraid of neem leaves and colorful silk threads, so they wrapped rice in neem leaves and twisted it with green silk.