Peh Cun / 端午节 (duanwu jie)

Contents :
1. Duanwu jie
2. The origin
2.1 the legend of qu yuan
2.2 ancient yue tribal tradition

3. tradition
3.1 zongzi (粽子)

1. duanwu jie or dragon boat festival (端午节) or known as peh cun festival in the Chinese-
indonesian circles is one of the most important festival in the culture and history of China.

This festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar and is
more than 2300 years old counted from zhou dynasty. The usual celebrations of dragon boat
festival, as we know is eating bakcang and dragon boat racing

2. 2.1 qu yuan
the legend of qu yuan is the minister of ancient state Chu during the warring states period of
zhou dynasty. However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of
Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance and even accused of treason. He , because of
depression committed suicide by jumping into the miluo river.
According to legends, he jumped on the 5th day of the 5th month. It is said that the local
people, who admired him, by boat tried to save him, or at least retrieve his body. When his
body could not be found, they dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so that the fish would
eat them instead of Qu Yuan's body. then to avoid the food from the dragon in the river, they
wrapped it in leaves which we know as bakcang now. This is said to be the origin of zongzi.

2.2 ancient yue tribal tradition

This Peh Cun-type celebration has also been celebrated by the Yue tribe in southern China
during the Qin and Han dynasties. Their celebration is a form of remembrance and respect for
their ancestors. Then after being culturally assimilated with the majority Han ethnicity, this
celebration then changed and developed into the Peh Cun celebration that we now know.

3. Zongzi (粽子)
The tradition of eating bakcang is officially used as one of the activities in the Peh Cun
festival since the Jin Dynasty. Previously, although bakcang has been popular in China, it has
not become a symbolic food for this festival. The shape of the bakcang actually also varies
and what we see now is only one of the many shapes and types of the bakcang. In Taiwan,
during the late Ming Dynasty, the shape of the bakcang brought by immigrants from Fujian
was a flat, round shape, somewhat different from the triangular prism we see today.
 bakcang contents are also vary and not only meat Some contain vegetables, some are made
into small pieces but without the contents which are then eaten with Serikaya, and sweet
sugar.

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肉 ròu bak daging meat
粽 zòng cang - -
子 zi - - -

Its either 肉粽 ( rou zong) or 粽子 (zongzi)