Here is an interesting legend. In 340 BC, patriotic poets, Qu Yuan, a doctor of the state of Chu, faced with the pain of national subjugation, threw himself into the Miluo River with a big stone in his arms on May 5.
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这里有一段有趣的传说.公元前340年,爱国诗人、楚国大夫屈原,面临亡国之痛,于五月五日,悲愤地怀抱大石投汩罗江,为了不使鱼虾损伤他的躯体,人们纷纷用竹筒装米投入江中.以后,为了表示对屈原的崇敬和怀念,每到这一天,人们便用竹筒装米,投江祭奠,这就是我国最早的粽子——“筒粽”的由来.
Zongzi has a long history. It was originally used as a tribute to ancestors and gods. In ancient times, in order to commemorate Qu Yuan's patriotism, people threw rice into the river where Qu Yuan committed suicide with bamboo tubes.
This is the most primitive form of Zongzi. Later, people slowly used leaves instead of bamboo tubes to pack rice, and scissors became zongzi today.
Zongzi, as one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural accumulation in China, has spread far.
