About Dumpling Festival

i should be update my blog yesterday 

but i had problem with upload pictures !! >.<

Dumpling festival/ Dragon Boat Festival/ (Duan Wu Jie 端午节) is a widely celebrated festival amongst the Chinese on on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, to pay respect to the patriotic poet, Qu Yuan. 

The Sad Story 

Qu Yuan was the number one advisor of the kingdom of Chu. 

But people were jealous his position and said lots of bad words on his back. 

The king wouldn't take his advice in the end and was killed by the enemy of neighbor kingdom. 

The new king continued to enjoy the luxury life and didn't like Qu Yuan either. 

Later, Qu Yuan was exiled. He wrote many patriotic poems after then. 

Qu Yuan met a fisherman, who never cared about the country and quite satisfied his life. 

Qu Yuan thought that the king wouldn't run the country, people only cared about themselves, 

nobody cared the future of the country and to live is meaningless. 

So he killed himself by drowning himself in the river.

Many fishermen tried to rescue him, but the body is never found. 

Fishermen worried about fish would eat his body. 

So they threw food into the river to feed the fish. Plus, they tried to scare fish away by splashing the water with their paddles and beating the drums on the long narrow boats. 

The people then made rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves (zongzi 粽子) and threw them into the river. They believed the food would stop the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body. 

Zongzi is made of steamed glutinous sweet rice mixing with meat and condiment wrapped in the bamboo leaves. They can be salty, sweet, hot or cold. 

and i got myself one zongzi this day.

The Dragon Boat Festival is usually in June

They said that you will be lucky for the coming year if you can make an egg standing up during Dumpling Festival. ^^

nice logo from Google on this day *for Hong Kong, Taiwan & China*

so cute !

The Nanshan Zoo of the Yantai city, east China's Shandong invited citizens to make zongzi for two giant pandas, Qing Feng and Hua Ao in the Duanwu Festival holidays. 

what about Malaysia??

Malaysia once again is ready to resound with the roars of spectators 

with the ever successful International Dragon Boat festival in Penang for the thirty second time. 

The dragon boat race will be held at the Teluk Bahang Dam, Penang, Malaysia on 11th and 12th June, 2011.

*This event is well-known for being Southeast Asia's most colourful boat race, and is all about friendly competition. This event is fully supported by the Penang State Government and is an affiliated festival of the International Dragon Boat Federation*