Another 25 days is a long holiday. Are you very excited? What month is the Dragon Boat Festival this year? Do you know the origin of the festival?
In 2019, the Dragon Boat Festival has three days off, from June 7 to June 9, which happens to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There is no need to take compensatory time off or make up classes.
The Dragon Boat Festival is also called 'Dragon Boat Festival' or 'Duanwu Festival'. In ancient Chinese, the word "Duan" means "beginning". A long time ago, ancient people believed that "every five days of the moon can be called the Dragon Boat Festival.". That is to say, the fifth day of every month can be Duanwu, until after the Han Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival was gradually set in the fifth day of May every year.
In the past, the original name of the Dragon Boat Festival should be 'Duanwu'. Later, in the period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, because Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty was born on the fifth day of the eighth lunar month, in order to avoid taboo, he changed the 'Wu' of Duanwu to 'Wu' at noon. In fact, Xiaobian deeply thinks that the name is better than the original one. It makes people understand when the festival is, which is more convenient for everyone.
Dragon Boat Festival inventory representative zongzi
traditional Chinese rice-pudding
Zongzi in the north is sweet
Although glutinous rice is mostly used as the main raw material of zongzi in our country, its taste is very different. In Xiaobian's opinion, the North should be the place where big bowls of wine and big pieces of meat are eaten, but I didn't expect that people would like to eat sweets when making zongzi. Beijing is the main representative of zongzi in the north, which is filled with such sweet stuffing as jujube, bean paste and preserved fruit. In Shaanxi Province, the local people also created the honey cold zongzi, which has no skin and stuffing. As long as the glutinous rice dumplings are made into water chestnut, they can be eaten after steaming, drenching with honey and waiting for the zongzi to cool thoroughly. Although it is quite different from most northern rice dumplings, generally speaking, northern rice dumplings are sweet.
traditional Chinese rice-pudding
Zongzi in the south is salty
Although on the whole, the taste of zongzi in the south is salty. But zongzi is blooming everywhere in the south, especially in Guangdong, but in Sichuan.
Guangdong cuisine is famous for its delicacy, so the zongzi in Guangdong is also exquisite, small and chic, and exquisite and lovely in appearance. Different from the triangle rice dumplings in the north, the rice dumplings in Guangdong are like a hill. The most unforgettable thing is the taste of Guangdong zongzi, which is sweet in the north, but not salty in the south. There are salted duck eggs, ham, diced chicken, streaky pork, barbecued pork and assorted pork. As long as you like, it seems that they can be packed into zongzi. In addition to Guangdong's zongzi and Sichuan's spicy zongzi, southern zongzi is also very unique. A spicy zongzi will bring you into Sichuan's food paradise immediately.