Chinese people are delighted to celebrate Dumpling Festival which is falls on June 2 today. Most of us are happy to eat Rice Dumpling. Wah! My mother makes a lot of Dumpling. Drooling to eat Dumpling right now. This is a photo that my mother makes Dumpling as below:
Do you know why it has to be celebrate every year?? Maybe few of us would know the real answer! If you do not know about the history of Dumpling festival, let's read about the story has a legend behind as below.
Once upon a time, there was a Chinese patriotic poet named "Qu Yuan" who served the emperor in Chu Kingdom in ancient China. He was a good minister and was well loved by the people. However, bad evil court officials were jealous of Qu Yuan's abilities and they successfully influenced the weak-minded emperor to dismiss and exile him.
Made by my mummy
Do you know why it has to be celebrate every year?? Maybe few of us would know the real answer! If you do not know about the history of Dumpling festival, let's read about the story has a legend behind as below.
Once upon a time, there was a Chinese patriotic poet named "Qu Yuan" who served the emperor in Chu Kingdom in ancient China. He was a good minister and was well loved by the people. However, bad evil court officials were jealous of Qu Yuan's abilities and they successfully influenced the weak-minded emperor to dismiss and exile him.
Qu Yuan who drowned himself into Mi Luo river in Hunan to protest against injustice and corruption in China over 1,000 years ago. When people knew about his death, they threw rice dumplings wrapped in lotus leaves into the river to prevent the fish from eating his body. they believed that fishes would eat their dumplings in stead of Qu Yuan's body. It might be a naive belief but their emotions were heartfelt and sincere.
As the result, the Rice Dumpling Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate the incident. In the modern era, dumpling is called as "Zong Zi" in Chinese which is no longer throw into river but people still eat them as holiday tradition and testament to Qu Yuan's self-determination.
Apart from dumplings, the celebration is also marked with dragon boat races in Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Singapore and so on. Other than that, we can exchange dumplings among close friends or relatives. Normally, Zong Zi is a traditional Chinese food which is a glutinous rice with water chestnuts, Chinese black mushrooms, cooked peanuts, dried shrimp and meat that wrapped in bamboo leaves and steamed.
That is a story of Dumpling festival so far. Drooling to eat dumpling? If you are Dumpling lover, you can see a lot of types of dumplings available in the market. Anyways, I wish you a Happy Dumpling Festival.
As the result, the Rice Dumpling Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate the incident. In the modern era, dumpling is called as "Zong Zi" in Chinese which is no longer throw into river but people still eat them as holiday tradition and testament to Qu Yuan's self-determination.
Apart from dumplings, the celebration is also marked with dragon boat races in Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Singapore and so on. Other than that, we can exchange dumplings among close friends or relatives. Normally, Zong Zi is a traditional Chinese food which is a glutinous rice with water chestnuts, Chinese black mushrooms, cooked peanuts, dried shrimp and meat that wrapped in bamboo leaves and steamed.
That is a story of Dumpling festival so far. Drooling to eat dumpling? If you are Dumpling lover, you can see a lot of types of dumplings available in the market. Anyways, I wish you a Happy Dumpling Festival.
Your mom can do dumpling?? Why I not try to eat your mom's dumpling?
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