1. The origin of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival:

Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is now generally recognized to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that in 34 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of the State of Chu, faced with the pain of national subjugation, threw a big stone into the Guluo River in grief and indignation on May 5th.

In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his body, ordinary people put rice in bamboo tubes and threw it into the river. In the future, in order to show respect and nostalgia for Qu Yuan, people would put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to pay homage. This is the origin of the earliest zongzi in China-"tube zongzi".

2. The Dragon Boat Festival has no meaning of eating plums.

Extended information

With the further development and progress of society, Zongzi has also kept pace with the society. Now Zongzi is made of many fillings, including salted egg yolk, meat and candied dates.

You can't eat more delicious food, especially children and the elderly. Zongzi contains a lot of sugar and glutinous rice, which is sticky, and the gastrointestinal function of the elderly and children is relatively weak.

If you eat too much, it is easy to cause indigestion and the symptoms such as hyperacidity, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea.