Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese people and commemorates the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. As a traditional Chinese festival food, Zongzi has appeared as an offering to ancestors and gods as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, zongzi was officially designated as the food of the Dragon Boat Festival. The folk custom of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is also associated with the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
1, the original purpose of eating zongzi is to cure disease and epidemic prevention
According to expert research, zongzi is just ordinary folk food, and eating zongzi is not fixed in the Dragon Boat Festival at the beginning.
The shape of zongzi with corners is the meaning of competition and struggle. The Dragon Boat Festival begins, summer insects breed, people have to fight the weather, and mosquito diseases. All the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are to remove mosquitoes, prevent diseases, and remove evil spirits.
2, the commemorative significance of eating zongzi
The Dragon Boat Festival eating zongzi also has a profound historical implication in, because the patriotic poet Qu Yuan in the Dragon Boat Festival on this day martyred Ming will, gradually evolved into the Chinese nation to commemorate Qu Yuan, the memory of the noble feelings of the festival.
According to legend, after Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, the people of Chu mourned him, and threw rice into the water to sacrifice him in the Dragon Boat Festival every year.
Later, this custom spread to all parts of China, and later developed the custom of eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, incense atractology, angelica, drinking realgar wine and so on.