Holiday notice: 7-8, June, 2019
Tasty rice dumplings with local variations in fillings have been a tradition of China's Dragon Boat Festival for centuries.
You don't have to live in China long to know that the country's most popular foods usually have a good story behind them.
That's particularly true of festival foods such as zongzi, the pyramid-shaped steamed glutinous rice packages in bamboo or reed leaves that have been associated with the Dragon Boat Festival for more than a millennium.
History and lore describe Qu Yuan variously as a poet, a patriot and an imperial adviser who lived during the turbulent Warring States Period (475-221 BC).
When a rival kingdom occupied his home, the kingdom of Chu, Qu is said to have thrown himself into a river.
Local folks were unable to find his body in the water, so they dropped rice balls into the river to stop fish from eating his corpse.
Dragon boating is the traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. A dragon boat is a ship with a dragon shape or a dragon shape. Among the dragon boates in Wenzhou, the dragon boats in the upper area of Yongjia and XiaTang are the most famous. The fighting dragon is carried out in the rushing Nanxi River, with a long distance of ten miles and a round trip of twenty miles. If you go down the tide, and the tide rises in the middle, or you go up the tide, you will have to fight to the end and stop. In addition, there is no change of hands, to draw the end, it has a tip paddle at the end, two people at the tip, and two bows in the bow to keep the balance of the ship's head and tail. At the time of the first dragon, these two manpower faucets, together with the thirty-six paddles, have a great effect of strengthening the speed. The long distance is reversed, the wind is tight, the drums are screaming, and the shouting sounds are really heroic.
