I. The Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival It is said that the custom of eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great poet in China history. It is precisely because of this that the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" after liberation.
Qu Ping (about 339 BC ~ about 278 BC) was originally named Qu Yuan, but was also named after Regular Cloud. Han nationality, a native of Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei) at the end of the Warring States Period, is a descendant of Qu Xian, the son of Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to Chu Huaiwang, he was repeatedly rejected. After the death of King Huai, Xiang Wang was exiled because he listened to slanderers, and finally died in the Miluo River.
Qu Yuan is one of the greatest romantic poets in China, and also the earliest known famous poet and world cultural celebrity in China. He initiated the style of "Chu Ci" and the tradition of "vanilla beauty". His representative works include Li Sao and Nine Songs.
In the history of our country, the saying that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan has a history of 1500 years. According to legend, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue, and all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was never seen. It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on rivers, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. People were afraid that fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom.
Of course, the Dragon Boat Festival is indispensable for the protagonist Zongzi. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi should be regarded as the traditional food with the deepest cultural accumulation so far in the history of China.
According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped into horns by leaves of zinia latifolia, which was called "horny millet". Rice packed in bamboo tubes is sealed and baked, which is called "tube zongzi". In Jin Dynasty, Zongzi was officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, in addition to glutinous rice, jiaozi also added Alpinia oxyphylla, and the boiled jiaozi was called "Yizhi jiaozi". Rice is mixed with animal meat, chestnuts, red dates, red beans and so on. And there are more and more varieties. Zongzi is also used as a gift for communication.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the rice used for zongzi was "white as jade", with conical and diamond shapes. There is a record of "Da Tang Zongzi" in Japanese literature. In the Song Dynasty, there was already a "candied jiaozi", that is, fruits entered jiaozi. The poet Su Dongpo has a poem "See Yangmei in Zongzi".
To this day, on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, every household in China has to soak glutinous rice, wash the leaves of zongzi, and make zongzi, with more colors and varieties. Judging from the stuffing, there are many bags of Beijing jujube brown in the north; There are many kinds of fillings in the south, such as bean paste, fresh meat, eight treasures, ham, egg yolk and so on. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years and spread to South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.
Second, the Dragon Boat Festival poetry appreciation May 5 (Yao Chen, Song Mei)
Qu Shi has sunk to death, and the Chu people can't bear it.
Why not slander, but want to be a dragon?
Hate before death, not after death.
Yuan Xiang Bi Tan Shui wants to see the striker.
Dragon Boat Festival (Tang Wenxiu)
The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, which is widely rumored to be Qu Yuan throughout the ages.
I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash it straight.
Dragon Boat Festival (Zhang Lei)
The race has been deeply saddened for thousands of years, and the loyal soul can return after it has gone.
The country died today, leaving only Li Sao in the world.
This is the Dragon Boat Festival (Beiqiong)
There is always sunshine in the end, and Miluo has nowhere to hang her soul.
Liu Hua should laugh at each other and wake up alone without wine.
Dragon Boat Festival (Tang Li Longji)
The Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and it is longer in sunny days.
Salt plum has been used as a tripod and has been sung ever since.
The ancients left traces of things, and the years were long.
When Xuan knows that there are many flowers and flowers, he has a faint scent of water.
Living together for trillions of years, the princes are immortal.
Loyalty, if not replaced, will make Fang Kun come from behind.
3. Dragon Boat Festival message 1. Make the blessing into zongzi, wrap it into happiness, follow the track of good luck, take the idea of success, cross the alley of missing, and walk into your little life during the Dragon Boat Festival, giving you a lifetime of happiness!
2. There is a deep affection for Zongzong, and the Dragon Boat Festival is auspicious. How many blessings have been brewed can't replace the simplest blessing-I wish you a happy and healthy Dragon Boat Festival!
3. The leaves are stacked layer by layer, and good luck is endless; Mimi is sticky and happy; Winding, happy hug; Water and water blend, and family ties are strong; Zongzong link, happiness does not rest! Wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival!
4. You look pale. On the water side, I miss my old friend and feel heartbroken. The Yangtze River is long, the reed leaves are fragrant, and I miss my hometown infinitely. West wing west wing, a touch of sunset, reduced to the end of the world from now on heartbroken; The rattan window of the hut was once a ballroom; Dragon Boat Festival, miss your friends, miss your hometown, wish you happiness and early glory.
5. Dragon Boat Festival, surprise! I hope to see you blessed on this sunny day: eating zongzi is sweet; Watch the dragon boat, good luck; Drink realgar and chase villains; It is a colorful light, a blessing.
6. Wan Shui Qian Shan's Zongzi is a feeling. Qu Yuan said thank you, watching the Dragon Boat Festival, there is no distance to maintain family ties. I wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival and happiness forever.
7. A dragon boat sails in all directions in the wind of happiness, blowing the waves of good luck all over the world. A string of dragon dumplings and even the happiness of the four seasons are wrapped in the hope of health for one year. Dragon Boat Festival is here, I wish you happiness, happiness, comfort and peace!
8. Send you a zongzi, content: 00% pure concern; Ingredients: sweetness+happiness+happiness+tolerance+loyalty = happiness; Shelf life: life; Preservation method: cherish. Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
9. Send a sachet with a purse, wrap a few kilograms of zongzi, ask someone to pick mugwort leaves in the mountains, buy a bottle of realgar wine on the street, and give it to you as a gift with a little heartfelt care. Wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival!
10. Send you a sweet zongzi, with fragrant blessings as leaves, gentle reminders as stuffing, and then wrapped with friendship silk thread. May you taste the wonderful May Day in your life! Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
1 1. Send you a good luck zongzi, which contains healthy Tibetan rice fermented with powder and water, good luck eggs, safe mushrooms, happy shrimps, longevity flowers and lucky chestnuts. If you receive it, you will have good luck again and again. I wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival.
12. Zongzong is deeply in love and the Dragon Boat Festival is auspicious. There are many blessings brewing, which can't replace the simplest blessing-I wish you a happy and healthy Dragon Boat Festival!
13. Send you a sweet zongzi, with fragrant blessings as leaves, gentle reminders as stuffing, and then wrapped with friendship silk thread. May you taste the wonderful May Day in your life! Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
14. Dragon Boat Festival, surprise! I hope to see you blessed on this sunny day: eating zongzi is sweet; Watch the dragon boat, good luck; Drink realgar and chase villains; It is a colorful light, a blessing.
15. Wanshui Qian Shan's "Zongzi" is a kind of feeling, and Qu Yuan said thank you. Watching the dragon boat during the Dragon Boat Festival has no distance to maintain family ties. I wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival and happiness forever.
16. It's the Dragon Boat Festival again, and I smell the fragrance of zongzi. Glutinous rice with red dates and mugwort leaves. Tie a red belt, beautiful and generous. A hot bath is refreshing and pleasant. Sending blessings on the Dragon Boat Festival is affordable and auspicious. Happy Dragon Boat Festival.
17. May you have: the songs in spring are cheerful; The heart in summer is hot; The significance of autumn is profound; Love in winter is pure. In the future journey of life, always keep yourself and wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival!
Fourth, the origin of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival There is an interesting legend here. In 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu, faced the pain of national subjugation. On May 5th, he threw a big stone into Guluo River with grief and indignation. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his health, people have thrown rice in bamboo tubes into the river. In the future, in order to show respect and memory for Qu Yuan, people will put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to pay homage. This is the origin of the earliest zongzi in China.
Why did you wrap zongzi with wormwood leaves or reed leaves and lotus leaves later? There is such a record in the Elementary Book: During the Jianwu period of the Han Dynasty, Changsha people dreamed of a man who called himself Dr. San Lv (the official name of Qu Yuan) at night and said to him, "Everything you sacrificed was stolen by the dragon in the river, so you can wrap it with mugwort leaves and tie it with colorful silk thread in the future. Dragons are most afraid of these two things. " As a result, people made "corn millet" with "leaves wrapped in millet", which was passed down from generation to generation and gradually developed into the Dragon Boat Festival food in China.
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, after eating Jiuzi Zongzi in the palace during the Dragon Boat Festival, Long Yan was overjoyed and full of praise, and happily wrote a poem: "The four seasons are so beautiful, and Jiuzi Zongzi seeks novelty."
Jiuzi Zongzi is a kind of Zongzi, that is, nine Zongzi are connected in a string, big and small, with the big one above and the small one below. They have different shapes and are very beautiful. They are made of silk threads of nine colors. Jiuzi Zongzi is mostly used for gifts to relatives and friends, such as gifts from mothers to married daughters and gifts from mother-in-law to newly-married wives. Because "Zongzi" is homophonic with "neutron", there is a folk saying that eating "Zongzi" can give birth to a son.
Wu Manyun, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, also wrote a poem praising Jiuzi Zongzi: "Even the barrel of rice is wrapped in spring, and the colorful plumes of Jiuzi are re-tied, the green leaves are all white, and the lotus root of the smiling cook is loose."
Zongzi not only has many shapes and varieties, but also has different tastes in different places, mainly sweet and salty. Sweet dumplings include white dumplings, red bean dumplings, broad bean dumplings, red date dumplings, rose dumplings, melon seeds dumplings, red bean paste lard dumplings, jujube paste lard dumplings and so on. There are pork jiaozi, ham jiaozi, sausage jiaozi, shrimp dumplings, diced pork jiaozi and so on, but pork jiaozi is more common. In addition, there are assorted jiaozi, jiaozi with bean paste and jiaozi with mushrooms. Southern flavor, and a sweet and salty "double dumplings". These zongzi have different tastes, which makes the zongzi family colorful.
Due to the spread of food culture, as early as ancient times, the technology of making zongzi in China spread abroad, so many countries in the world also have the custom of eating zongzi.
Peruvians eat zongzi at Christmas. The family sat together, eating zongzi and celebrating Christmas. Even some married daughters will go back to their parents' homes on this day and taste the zongzi made by their mothers.
Burmese also like to eat zongzi. On the Dragon Boat Festival, they use glutinous rice as the main raw material and cooked bananas and coconuts as fillings. This kind of zongzi is very attractive, soft, sweet and unique.
The Dragon Boat Festival in Japan is on the fifth day of May in the solar calendar. The main ingredient of their jiaozi is rice flour, which looks like a bell.
The jiaozi wrapped by Malaysians is very similar in shape to that in Guangdong, China, and is characterized by its relatively large size. Besides fresh meat jiaozi and ham jiaozi, there are also bean paste and coconut jiaozi, which are very delicious.
The dumplings in the Philippines are long and taste the same as those in eastern Zhejiang. Zongzi is also a necessary food for Filipinos to celebrate Christmas.
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