#端午节

[buffetlicious]

Went for my medical appointment and was buying dinner at Feng Food (豐富) when I saw they have Yilan Rice Dumpling (宜兰粽) for sale. Each dumpling (250g - 260g) is filled with glutinous rice, salted egg yolk, pork belly, mushroom, dried shrimp, and conpoy (dried scallop). You can buy it frozen (S$5.20/pc) or ready-to-eat (S$5.80/pc) and even better, you get 15% off on weekdays. I bought the frozen one since I am not eating it on the day of purchase.

After 15 minutes of steaming in the wok, it is time to unwrap the Yilan Rice Dumpling (宜兰粽). As I was peeling the bamboo leaves, the ingredients inside fell out due to the many pieces of braised pork belly and mushroom stuffed inside. The rice was on the mushy side and sticking to the leaf but otherwise the taste was not too bad though it didn’t blow me away with the overall flavours. Then I remembered, in Taiwan, they pre-cooked the glutinous rice separately then wrapped with cooked filling, period. Unlike here in Singapore where we wrapped the raw rice and cooked fillings in bamboo leaves then boil them in water for like an hour and a half. During the 1.5 hours of cooking, the bamboo leaves imparted their fragrance to the rice while fat is rendered out of the pork belly and absorbed into the rice so you get the best of both worlds.

Topmost image courtesy of Feng Food Singapore.

[ssoliloquyy]

“do you think we’re best friends in every universe?”

a little something from 端午节 a while ago. geto is a savory 粽子, and gojo is a sweet one.

[marilearnsmandarin]

Last week it was Dragon Boat Festival and there was an event at Universidade de São Paulo with music, lion and dragon dances and boat races!

My friend and I even had a chance to row the boat at the end of the event!

[marlo-noni]

2024.06.10 - Dragon Boat Festival promo photo for A Dream Within a Dream, starring Liu Yuning and Li Yitong (Weibo source)

[sikfankitchen]

Getting ready for Dragon Boat Festival! Made a batch of Zongzi/Joong 粽子 (Chinese sticky rice dumplings) Recipe

[frida789]

[naradaily]

子供の日

[lawpeizhi]

我们端午有约会 #端午节 #六一节 #美食 #miraclecoffee

[eisunoh]

[winter1zhang]

Spend Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu Festival on Aobi Island 🐻

One of my favorite festivals because: I get to eat delicious Zongzi/rice dumplings and enjoy holiday with my family.

Of course, also with my bear buddies!

[buffetlicious]

May happiness be like the dumpling cord, tightly wrapped around you;

May health be like a dumpling leaf, enfolding to surround you;

May bliss be like the allure of dumpling fragrance, endearingly encompass you.

I sincerely wish you a happy, healthy, and blissful Dragon Boat Festival!

愿幸福就像一根根粽绳，紧紧地缠着你；

愿安康就像一片片粽叶，团团地围着你；

美满就像一阵阵粽香，久久地环绕你。

衷心祝你端午节幸福、安康、美满！

[kairukitsuneo]

Happy Dragon Boat Festival

端午节快乐 🙏❤️

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Warring States period(475–221 BC) Traditional Clothing Hanfu-Life of Qu Yuan(屈原）

【Historical Artifact Reference】:

China Warring States period (475-221 BC):Silk painting depicting a man riding a dragon (人物御龍帛畫)

it was discovered in the Zidanku Tomb no. 1 in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1973. Now in the Hunan Museum

A man with a sword is riding a dragon by holding the rein. The dragon's body was given the shape of a boat. A little egret is standing at the tail of the dragon. A carp under the dragon is leading the way. The umbrella in the top middle of the picture shows the owner's nobility. The work has become associated with the Chu poet Qu Yuan’s famous verse from his poem Shejiang (涉江, Setting foot in the river), ‘Carrying a long sword with weird colour; Wearing a qieyun–styled high cap.” (帶長鋏之陸離兮, 冠切雲之崔嵬)

Western Zhou Dynasty seven-huang jade pendant with linked beads/西周七璜联珠组玉佩

About Qu Yuan(屈原）

Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC – 278 BC)was a Chinese poet and aristocrat in the State of Chu during the Warring States period. He is known for his patriotism and contributions to classical poetry and verses, especially through the poems of the Chu Ci anthology (also known as The Songs of the South or Songs of Chu): a volume of poems attributed to or considered to be inspired by his verse writing. Together with the Shi Jing, the Chu Ci is one of the two greatest collections of ancient Chinese verse. He is also remembered in connection to the supposed origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Historical details about Qu Yuan's life are few, and his authorship of many Chu Ci poems has been questioned at length.[4] However, he is widely accepted to have written "The Lament," a Chu Ci poem. The first known reference to Qu Yuan appears in a poem written in 174 BC by Jia Yi, an official from Luoyang who was slandered by jealous officials and banished to Changsha by Emperor Wen of Han. While traveling, he wrote a poem describing the similar fate of a previous "Qu Yuan."Eighty years later, the first known biography of Qu Yuan's life appeared in Han dynasty historian Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, though it contains a number of contradictory details.

Life of Qu Yuan(屈原）

The only surviving source of information on Qu Yuan's life is Sima Qian's biography of him in Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), although the biography is circumstantial and probably influenced greatly by Sima's own identification with Qu.Sima wrote that Qu was a member of the Chu royal clan and served as an official under King Huai of Chu (reigned 328–299 BC).

During the early days of King Huai's reign, Qu Yuan was serving the State of Chu as its Left Minister. However, King Huai exiled Qu Yuan to the region north of the Han River, because corrupt ministers slandered him and influenced the king.Eventually, Qu Yuan was reinstated and sent on a diplomatic mission to the State of Qi. He tried to resume relations between Chu and Qi, which King Huai had broken under the false pretense of King Hui of Qin to cede territory near Shangyu.

During King Qingxiang's reign, Prime Minister Zilan slandered Qu Yuan.[9] This caused Qu Yuan's exile to the regions south of the Yangtze River. It is said that Qu Yuan returned first to his home town. In his exile, he spent much of this time collecting legends and rearranging folk odes while traveling the countryside. Furthermore, he wrote some of the greatest poetry in Chinese literature and expressed deep concerns about his state. According to legend, his anxiety brought him to an increasingly troubled state of health. During his depression, he would often take walks near a certain well to look upon his thin and gaunt reflection in the water. This well became known as the "Face Reflection Well." On a hillside in Xiangluping (at present-day Zigui County, Hubei Province), there is a well that is considered to be the original well from the time of Qu Yuan.

In 278 BC, learning of the capture of his country's capital, Ying, by General Bai Qi of the state of Qin, Qu Yuan is said to have collected folktales and written the lengthy poem of lamentation called "Lament for Ying". Eventually, he committed suicide by wading into the Miluo River in today's Hunan Province while holding a rock. The reason why he took his life remained controversial and was argued by Chinese scholars for centuries. Typical explanations including martyrdom for his deeply beloved but falling motherland, which was suggested by the philosopher Zhu Xi of the Song dynasty, or feeling extreme despair to the situation of the politics in Chu while his lifelong political dream would never be realized. But according to "Yu Fu," widely considered to be written by Qu himself or at least, a person who was very familiar with Qu, his suicide was an ultimate way to protect his innocence and life principles.[citation needed]

Qu Yuan is said to have expressed his love for the ruling monarch, King Huai of Chu, through several of this works, including "The Lament" and "Longing for Beauty".

Dragon Boat Festival/端午节

Popular legend has it that villagers carried their dumplings and boats to the middle of the river and desperately tried to save Qu Yuan after he immersed himself in the Miluo but were too late to do so. However, in order to keep fish and evil spirits away from his body, they beat drums and splashed the water with their paddles, and they also threw rice into the water both as a food offering to Qu Yuan's spirit and also to distract the fish away from his body. However, the legend continues, that late one night, the spirit of Qu Yuan appeared before his friends and told them that he died because he had taken himself under the river. Then, he asked his friends to wrap their rice into three-cornered silk packages to ward off the dragon.

These packages became a traditional food known as zongzi, although the lumps of rice are now wrapped in leaves instead of silk. The act of racing to search for his body in boats gradually became the cultural tradition of dragon boat racing, held on the anniversary of his death every year. Today, people still eat zongzi and participate in dragon boat races to commemorate Qu Yuan's sacrifice on the fifth day of the fifth month of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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[marlo-noni]

My friend/coworker gave me a red bean zongzi! Happy dragon boat festival!!

[sikfankitchen]

Get Ready for Dragon Boat Festival with Zongzi 粽子 / Joong in Cantonese (Chinese sticky rice dumplings) 🚣 🐲

[sohcah--toa]

bullet train textposts!! :DD

I forgot the Sir Topham Hatt had a nickname in "Thomas and the Tank Engine"... hahah, I think this works even better now!! Lemon would have fun pretending to be the controller from his favourite show. (who wouldn't???)