Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has become a habit. If you don't eat Zongzi on this day, you feel a little less. In the traditional sense, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has an important historical meaning. Most people think that eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival originated from Qu Yuan, but in fact, the origin of zongzi is earlier than this. So, why do you eat Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival? Let's understand the reason and moral of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival.
Why eat Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival
According to folklore, eating zongzi is to commemorate Qu Yuan. It is said that zongzi is passed down to commemorate Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river.
However, according to records, as early as the spring and Autumn period, millet was wrapped in wild rice leaves (Zizania latifolia leaves) into ox horn shape, which was called 'cornucum'; Packed with rice in bamboo tube, sealed and roasted, called 'tube Zong'. Zongzi is a kind of "Zong". Zong is a tribute used by people to worship gods and ancestors during New Year's festivals. It is an ancient traditional custom to worship gods and ancestors during New Year's festivals. There are many kinds of rice dumplings. Different festivals will make different rice dumplings. Zongzi is a tribute to the ancestors of gods on the Dragon Boat Festival. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the millet was soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contained 'alkali', the millet was wrapped in wild rice leaves into a quadrangular shape and cooked, which was Guangdong alkaline water zongzi.
The original version of the word "Zong" is "Zhen". The written records related to zongzi in history were probably first seen in Shuowen Jiezi by Xu Shen of the Han Dynasty, which was interpreted as "rice wrapped in reed leaves". In the book of Fengshi written by Zhou Chu, the governor of Xinping in the Western Jin Dynasty, the word 'jiaoshu' was clearly mentioned: 'the fifth end of midsummer, Fang BOXIE pole. Enjoy corns, turtle scales and Shunde. " Zongzi appeared as early as before the spring and Autumn period. It was originally used to offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods; In the Jin Dynasty, zongzi became the festival food of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Legend of zongzi
It is said that Qu Yuan advocated to recruit talents and empower the country, enrich the country and strengthen the army, and strongly advocated to unite with Qi to resist the Qin Dynasty. In 278 BC, the Qin army broke through the Kyoto of the state of Chu. Qu Yuan saw his motherland being invaded, but he could not bear to give up his motherland. On May 5, after writing his final work Huai Sha, he threw himself into the Miluo River with a stone, He composed a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.
After Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the local people immediately rowed for rescue. In order to express their grief, people boated on the river, and then it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. The people were afraid that the fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to avoid fish and shrimp spoiling Qu Yuan's body. Later, they evolved into zongzi.
The implication of zongzi
The historical records of zongzi were first found in Shuowen Jiezi written by Xu Shen of the Han Dynasty. " Zongzi is originally called "rice dumpling", and reed leaves wrap rice. From the meter, the sound. The Western Han Dynasty took zongzi as the earliest food at the Dragon Boat Festival, which should belong to 'owl soup'《 According to the note "filial piety and martial discipline" in the historical records, Ru Chun said: "the Han envoy sent the owl to Dongjun, and on May 5, he gave the owl soup to all officials. Eat evil birds. About because owls are not easy to catch, the custom of eating owl soup did not last. File is the protagonist of the Dragon Boat Festival - zongzi, which appeared in the later Eastern Han Dynasty. It was not until the Jin Dynasty that zongzi became a festival food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi should be regarded as the most profound traditional food in Chinese history.
200 years later, Wu Jun, a Liang writer in the Southern Dynasty, said in his book "the story of Qi Kai continued": "Qu Yuan died in Miluo on May 5. The people of Chu mourned for it, so they stored rice in bamboo tubes and threw water to sacrifice it.", According to the story of Qi harmonic, zongzi was created for fear that the rice sacrificed to Qu Yuan would be stolen by the Jiaolong. Because the dragon is afraid of neem leaves and green silk. It can be seen that people have deep feelings for loyal and righteous people.
Various types of zongzi
'bamboo leaf dumplings':' take bamboo leaves and wrap them in white glutinous rice dumplings. The tip is like raw water chestnut. '
'AI Xiang zongzi': 'clean the glutinous rice, mix jujube, chestnut and mung bean, dip the rice with AI leaf, wrap it in the rice, and boil it in the pot.'
'Sweet tea dumplings': 'take the juice of zhenwushan high-quality sweet tea and use it to make zongzi. The zongzi is golden and shiny, and the entrance is smooth, tender and soft'
It's sticky, fragrant in the teeth and cheeks, sweet in the aftertaste, greasy and nutritious. "
'bacon sausage dumplings':' the small dumplings wrapped with bacon sausage have the smell of Chinese New Year reunion at the entrance. '
'mint dumplings': 'soak the rice in mint water, steam it soft, mix it with foreign sugar, wrap it in Ruo for small dumplings, and then cook it.'
'bean paste dumplings':' bean paste, sugar, fat Ding Bao small dumplings boiled. '
'lotus seed zongzi': 'peel the heart, mix foreign sugar and make small zongzi.'
'pine kernel dumplings':' small dumplings without skin bags'
'ham dumplings':' wrap dumplings with ham pieces. The ham should be Jinhua, fine and fat. In addition, diced meat can also be wrapped in zongzi. "
'egg yolk dumpling': 'the middle egg yolk must be made of good eggs. It is sweet and salty without aversion.'