The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is: the fifth of May, the month, the day are five, so called five. If a year than a day, the age of May is just like a day of noon, perhaps later "five" gradually through the "noon" reason, so the end of the five and that is the Dragon Boat Festival; and because of the noon for the "Yangchen", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the "Dragon Boat Festival", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the "Dragon Boat Festival".

The Dragon Boat Festival legend has Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, Wu Zixu was framed for wrongful death and other stories.

The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families ate zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, usually the day before the zongzi package, boiled at night, eaten in the morning. Zongzi package is mainly with the river and pond side of the abundance of young reed leaves, there are also bamboo leaves, collectively known as zongzi leaves.

The traditional form of zongzi for the triangle, generally named according to the flesh, wrapped in glutinous rice called rice zongzi, rice mixed with small beans called small bean zongzi, mixed with red dates called jujube zongzi; jujube zongzi resonance for the "early in the", so eat jujube zongzi most of the intention of the children ate in the study can be early in the scholar. In the past, the readers to participate in the day of the imperial examinations, the morning to eat jujube rice dumplings, to date, secondary school, university entrance examinations in the morning, parents also want to do jujube rice dumplings to candidates to eat.