The Dragon Boat Festival, whose real name is "Dragon Boat Festival", and "Taiping Yulan Local Records": "The fifth day of midsummer begins." Also known as "Duanyang" and "Chongwu", commonly known as "the end of May". Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with a history of more than 2,000 years. This is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Our city has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and the Dragon Boat Festival culture has been passed down to this day.
The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period. Liu Junli, the former vice president of Jinzhong Shizhiyuan and an expert in Jinzhong folklore, said that besides Qu Yuan, there are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu and his filial daughter Cao E..
He introduced that there are "four major festivals and eight festivals" in the four major festivals in Jinzhong. As a "summer festival", people attach great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival. Besides eating zongzi, hanging wormwood, wearing sachets and winding silk thread, it also has its own regional characteristics. For example, before the reform and opening up, Jinzhong people had been eating zongzi wrapped in yellow rice. After the reform and opening up, the circulation of products accelerated, and glutinous rice (glutinous rice) gradually became popular.
According to Liu Junli's research, it is possible that Zongzi is wrapped in a quadrangle with hanging corners and originated from a plant called Zongzi Grass, which grows in Jinzhong.
Liu Junli said that this kind of zongzi grass can be seen everywhere in Hao Village, Zhang Qingxiang, Yuci District, where he was born. Its fruit is as big as soybean and shaped like a hanging horn. When it is broken, the fruit of Zongzi grass contains rice-like white objects, which are sweet in the mouth when tender and black when old. The ancients may have been inspired by the grass shape of zongzi and invented it.
Qu Yuan has long gone with the rolling waves, but Qu Yuan's blood has been flowing in the long river of history and has been circulating with the Dragon Boat Festival for a long time.