The origin and meaning of eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019?
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival with many customs. So what is the origin and meaning of eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival? When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019? Midsummer is the time when pomegranate flowers are bright in May and fruits can be seen on the branches. If you want to know more about the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019, please pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo's website!The origin and meaning of eating Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival:The legend has it that in 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and minister of the State of Chu, faced the pain of losing his country. On May 5th, he was so angry that he embraced a large stone and threw himself into the Miluo River. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his body, people filled bamboo tubes with rice and threw them into the river. Later, in order to express their respect and remembrance for Qu Yuan, people would fill bamboo tubes with rice and throw them into the river to commemorate him on this day. This is the origin of the earliest rice dumpling in my country - the "tube rice dumpling".Why did people later use mugwort, reed leaves or lotus leaves to wrap rice dumplings? There is such a record in "Chuxueji": During the Jianwu period of the Han Dynasty, a Changsha man dreamed of a man at night who claimed to be Sanlu Doctor (Qu Yuan's official name) and said to him: "The things you used for sacrifice were stolen by the dragon in the river. From now on you can wrap them with mugwort leaves and tie them with colorful silk threads. Dragons are most afraid of these two things." So people began to wrap millet with "reed leaves" to make "jiaoshu", which was passed down from generation to generation and gradually developed into my country's Dragon Boat Festival food. However, according to experts, rice dumplings are just an ordinary folk food, and they were not originally eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival. The idea that eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan is a fabrication by later generations and only reflects the wishes of the people. In fact, eating rice dumplings on the Cold Food Festival (the day before Qingming Festival), which was formed as a folk festival to commemorate Jie Zitui of the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period, originated earlier than eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival. To this day, the folk custom of eating rice dumplings on the day before and during Qingming Festival is still practiced in many places. According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped in cattail leaves (茭白叶) into the shape of ox horns, which was called "horn millet"; rice was packed in bamboo tubes, sealed and baked, which was called "tube zong". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet was soaked in water with wood ash. Because the water contained alkali, millet was wrapped in cattail leaves into a square shape and cooked, which became the Guangdong alkaline water zong. When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019?The Gregorian calendar date for Dragon Boat Festival in 2019 is: Friday, June 7, 2019The Dragon Boat Festival in 2019 is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. The Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory, numerous ethnic groups and many stories and legends, there are not only many different festival names, but also different customs in different places. As early as in ancient times, the land of Baiyue had the custom of worshiping the Dragon Ancestor by racing dragon boats on the noon day of the noon month when the pure yang energy of heaven and earth was strong. As the saying goes, "A good fate is not as good as good luck." A person's destiny is already determined, and the only thing that can be controlled is his or her "luck." Unexpected changes in the world may happen at any time, so use Mr. Shui Mo's [Premium Calculation] function to learn more about your fortune in 2019! |
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