Introduction of eating zongzi in Gan Long Dragon Boat Festival;
Zongzi is fragrant, fragrant kitchen. Folium Artemisiae Argyi smells fragrant. Peach branches are inserted in the grating, and you can see the wheat yellow when you go out. The sun is here, the sun is there, the sun is everywhere. Did the ancients pay attention to eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival? What other seasonal foods make people feast their eyes on? Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty is the earliest ancient book to record zongzi. The reference to "glutinous rice" is interpreted as "wrapping rice with reed leaves", which is the prototype of modern zongzi.
The use of zongzi in the pre-Qin period was mostly used for sacrifice. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Chronicle of Jingchu's Age recorded: "Eating Zongzi on the Summer Solstice Day." Zongzi has become a seasonal food in summer solstice. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Dragon Boat Festival was officially established, and the summer solstice approached. The custom of eating zongzi from summer solstice was included in the Dragon Boat Festival.
According to the food list in the eighteenth year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong put zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival Palace and set up a "zongzi mat". At that time, there were 1276 zongzi on the emperor's dinner table, and he hardly ate anything else that day. "Pro-teaching Gong E group angle, the golden plate can be shot first." Imperial secretary used a small horn bow to shoot an arrow at the zongzi tray, and he ate whichever one he hit. When eating, the emperor will drink calamus wine and reward everyone with realgar wine. After the meal, it is served with mulberry, cherry and fruit tea.
Many local delicacies of the Dragon Boat Festival are also recorded in ancient books, such as "steamed noodle rice" in Minqin, Gansu, "fried dumplings" in Jinjiang, Fujian, and "Yezibo" in Yulin, Guangxi, etc. There are still many ancient Dragon Boat Festival traditions in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, especially "Huang Wu" and "Five Whites". Among them, "Huang Wu", namely Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine, has become a necessary food for festivals and customs.
Although the Dragon Boat Festival was celebrated in different places during the Qianlong period, eating zongzi has always been a remarkable traditional feature. By celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, people can not only bid farewell to the cold winter and welcome the midsummer, but also commemorate historical celebrities and inspire national pride. It is our responsibility and mission to inherit and carry forward traditional culture.