DuanWu Festival (端午节/DuanWu Jie) also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is one of the most important traditional Chinese festivals celebrated by the Chinese. This festival has many other Chinese names which refer to the same day and there’s many saying of how this festival was started back in the olden days.
The Dragon Boat Festival or Dumpling Festival or simple just DuanWu Jie, is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Lunar year (Chinese Calendar; Which is today). There are many stories behind this festival for how and why it is celebrated. One of the most popular saying is that this festival is celebrated as a remembrance of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan (屈原).
It was said that under certain occasion, Qu Yuan was isolated and felt sad about the country until then he jumped into the river to end his life. When the villagers knew about this, they quickly rowed their boats and hoped to rescue him, and another saying is they didn’t want Qu Yuan’s corpse to be eaten by fish (or scared that he would be hungry down under the river), they made a lot of dumplings (known as Zong Zi or 粽子 - rice wrapped in bamboo leaves) to feed the fish (or him - either way of the legend).
This slowly has become a tradition, and that’s how Dragon Boat competition and eating dumplings become related to this festival. No matter which story is the most reliable, that’s not so important. So, HAPPY DUANWU JIE to all =)
Process of making Chinese meat dumpling
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