Dumpling Festival 端午节

端午节

Duan Wu Jie is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Lunar calendar (usually June in the calendar we use now). It is a day to remember the poet Qu Yuan, who was a loyal official in the court of the Chu Kingdom in old China.

Other officials told the emperor lies about Qu Yuan. The weak emperor believed the evil officials and asked Qu Yuan to leave his court. Over the next 20 years, the Chu kingdom got weaker.

Qu Yuan was very sad that his beloved country was controlled by another country, the Qin Kingdom. He decided to end his life by jumping into the river. Fishermen who heard that Qu Yuan drowned himself in the river set sail on boats to look for his body.

When they could not find it, they threw rice wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river so that the fish in the river would eat the rice instead of his body. The traditions of dragon boat races and eating rice dumplings on Duan Wu Jie thus began.

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so being a " traditional " chinese family , we celebrate this festival every year... my mum will be the one wrapping the dumpling alone ( she learn from my grandma )... so this year i offer my help and i wanna learn the skill and tatic of wrapping a dumpling too , not to let this skill die down....

suppose to wake up early in the morning , but i can't seem to drag myself out of the bed so i wake up ard 12 pm to carry on the 2nd round of wrapping....

my mum trying to tell mi how to hold and wrap the dumpling ....this looks easy but actually it is not ! the holding and the method to keep it tight is not a joke ....

after 2 hours of wrapping , finally i finish up all the ingredients

total i wrapped 34 numbers of dumpling in 2 hours , accordding to my mum this quite fast for beginners like me *wink*wink*

boiling the water to " cook " the dumpling , and cooking dumpling using charcoal is a MUST ! the taste of the dumpling will be better compare to using a gas stove....

3 hours later !!!!

my dumpling is READY !

steaming hot !

nice? hahah beginner leh

it taste wonderful !

haha a fun thing to do :)