The Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival has many customs, such as eating rice dumpling(zongzi), dragon boat racing, wearing five silk threads, eating "five yellow" and so on.
When talking about rice dumpling (zongzi), I like to eat so much, there are two kinds of zongzi, one is bamboo leaf Zongzi, one is bamboo tube zongzi. But there are many style making such like people make durian ice zongzi, non-traditional glutinous rice. There are many kinds of fillings, red dates, bean paste, fragrant rice, glutinous rice, eight treasure porridge. It's all sticky, and it tastes delicious and sweet.
Why does China have this festival? Do you want to know it? Let me tell you some, he has such a story. Qu Yuan who was an poets over 2 thousand ago , at the beginning of the fifth day of May, he was wronged, holding a stone jumped into the river. When the local people heard this information, they weren to the rescue. But fishing is not for a long time, the people are afraid of fish and shrimp to eat him, rowing a dragon boat on the river, throwing zongzi to lead away the lobster. In order to commemorate this great patriot, the custom of Dragon Boat racing and eating zongzi continues to now.