That's the legend. But in fact, Echo Zhao writes in The World of Chinese, "Zongzi existed long before Qu Yuan did. Five hundred thousand years ago, our ancestors were already wrapping food in leaves, ...
Every Monday morning, students at the Rio Chinese International School gather on the school field to sing the national anthems of China and Brazil as well as the school song, watching as flags are ...
who drowned following his banishment from the Chinese kingdom of Chu. To protect his body from a dragon in the water, locals threw rice dumplings, known as zongzi, into the river for the creature ...