Today is one of the 4 big traditional Chinese festivals, the Duanwu festival or Dragon boat festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar, so I would like to pick this as my topic for today. The other 3 big traditional Chinese festivals are the Spring festival, the Tomb-sweeping festival, and the Mid-autumn festival. Each festival has its symbolic food, I was surprised to realize that! It seems like we are totally foodies haha. Alright, normally, people eat zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) during the Duanwu festival, dumplings during the Spring festival, green rice balls during the Tomb sweeping festival, and mooncakes during the Mid-autumn festival. Although it's not all the same in different areas, but it's like this in general. When Chinese talk about these 4 traditional festivals, we talk about public holidays. Although today is Monday, a work day, but actually it's an off day for us. I'm really happy for that. By the way, the picture below is Zongzi that I've eaten in this morning, it was wrapped up in bamboo leaves, and inside the zongzi is sticky rice and some fillings, such as beans, egg yolk, pork and so on. The flavor I've eaten in the picture is egg yolk mixed with pork. But if it were only with pork filled, it would be more delicious for me, because I don't like duck egg yolks haha.

Today is one of the 4 big traditional Chinese festivals, Duanwu Festival or Dragon Boat Festival. It falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar, so I would like to pick up this topic today. The other 3 big traditional Chinese festivals are Spring Festival, Tomb-sweeping Festival, and Mid-autumn Festival. Each festival has its own symbolic food, we are total foodies haha. Normally, people eat zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) for Duanwu Festival, dumplings for Spring Festival, green rice balls for Tomb-sweeping Festival, and mooncakes for Mid-autumn Festival. It's a little bit different in every region, but generally that's the case. When Chinese talk about these 4 traditional festivals, we talk about public holidays. Although today is Monday, a work day, it's actually a day off for us. And I'm really happy for that. By the way, the picture below is a Zongzi that I ate this morning. It was wrapped up in bamboo leaves, and inside the zongzi is sticky rice and some fillings, such as beans, egg yolks, pork and so on. The Zongzi in the picture had egg yolk mixed with pork. But if it was only filled with pork, it would have been more delicious for me, because I don't like duck egg yolks haha.