halo i am zhiyin!!! the new member of happy cheena friends!!!! i am oso frm chung cheng and classmate of puiboon, yihui and wilson. it has been a long time since anyone blog here...so since its wu yue in the lunar calander now....i shall tell u all more about the dumpling festival!!!!





Many moons ago, in ancient China, patriotic poet and statesman Qu Yuan threw himself into the waters of the Milo River in protest against corruption and injustice. Fishermen, to protect the young idealist's body from being devoured by demons, beat drums and gongs and threw rice into the water as offerings. In memory of this occasion, every year during the period surrounding the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar (the day Qu Yuan drowned himself) Chinese Singaporeans hold dragon boat races and eat dumplings. The races are said to represent the search for his body.The dumplings, or zongzi, little packets of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves, are thought to have their origin in the bamboo tubes of rice thrown into the river as offerings. To keep the river dragons from eating them, the packets were tied with brightly-coloured silk threads (which dragons fear).



this is the handsome qu yuan.


and this is bazang (hokkien for dumpling)


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