Chinese Dragon Boat or Duanwu Festival
Today is the celebration of the so called "Dumpling day".
The significant of today...well..I'm also not too sure about it except that I got to enjoy the dumplings @ "Bak Chang".
How does this "Dumplings" came about ?
Zongzi is a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar calendar.
According to folklore, today commemorates the death anniversary of poet Qu Yuan. Out of despair, he committed suicide by drowning himself. People were so grieved that they threw wrapped rice balls into the river to feed the fish so that his body would not be eaten by them.
Boats were also paddled out to scare the fish away so that Qu's body could be retrieved.
Perhaps....this is the origin of dragon boat racing !
Have a Merry Dumpling day !
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