The annual Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and I am waiting for...
Dragon boat racing is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, the people of the state of chu were not allowed to condescend to the river, and many people rowed to the rescue. They rushed to the lake and disappeared. The dragon boat is then on May 5 each year. Use the dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river, so as not to eat the body of qu yuan.
We are going to eat zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi is officially designated as a food for the Dragon Boat Festival. At this time, the raw material except glutinous rice zongzi, add Chinese traditional medicine fructus alpiniae oxyphyllae, boiled dumplings puzzle in the reed meters doping, chestnut, jujube, red bean, etc., variety. Zongzi is also used as a gift.
The famous ai, mugwort. Its stems and le**es contain volatile aromatic oils. It produces strange aromas, repellent flies, insect ants, purifying the air. Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb with long, narrow le**es that also contain volatile aromatic oils, a drug that refrezes the mind, kills bones and kills insects
It is seen that the ancients had certain protection against disease. Health day in the Dragon Boat Festival is also a tradition since ancient times, people in this day cleaning the yard, hanging YiZhi, dangerous calamus, sprinkles realgar water, drink realgar wine, conserving IP turbidity, prevention of sterilization. These activities also reflect the fine traditions of the Chinese nation.
In the tang dynasty, the rice dumplings were white and white, and the shape of the zongzi was conical and diamond shaped. Zongzi package material has been from wild rice leaf changes to reed le**es, then appeared in reed le**es package dumplings, additives h**e bean paste, pork, pine nuts, dates, walnut and so on, varieties more rich and colorful.
As of today, every year in early may, the Chinese people will soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi and make zongzi, and they will h**e more variety. From the filling, the Beijing date zongzi, which is covered in the north, is covered with jujube. In the south, there is a variety of fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, ham and egg yolk, which is represented by jiaxing zongzi in zhejiang province.