The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat dumplings. Eating dumplings is a custom of the Spring Festival in the North.

The custom of eating dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The custom of eating dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival has prevailed in China for thousands of years, and has become one of the most influential and widely covered folk food customs of the Chinese nation.

The origin of eating zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival:

According to folklore, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people of Chu in order to prevent the river fish and shrimp turtles and crabs to eat Qu Yuan's body, to the river to throw food. Year after year, people in order to commemorate Qu Yuan, every Dragon Boat Festival day, they will use bamboo leaves to glutinous rice wrapped up, made into a diamond-shaped pointed zongzi, rowing a dragon boat to Miluo River, cast into the river to worship Qu Yuan. This is the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi paddle the origin of the dragon boat.

Expanded:

Every year at the Dragon Boat Festival, the Singaporeans also have the custom of dragon boat races and eating zongzi The Nyonya rice dumplings are Singapore's unique Dragon Boat Festival delicacy. The unique spice "coriander powder" with soy sauce, carefully marinated lean meat, and then with the sweet and refreshing winter melon strips stir-fried, and finally wrapped into the white crystal glutinous rice.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, Vietnamese people prepare sticky rice with yellow ginger to thank their ancestors for their favors that brought a good life to their children and grandchildren, and to pray for their blessings for good weather and good harvests. In addition, Vietnamese people believe that the ginger in the rice is effective in avoiding plague, detoxifying and preventing sores.