Interview on Traditional Food ( Rice Dumpling )

Older Generation

Interviewer : Jensen

Interviewee: Francis

A Rice Dumpling without cover

A Picture of the rice dumpling




Q1. When was Rice Dumpling usually ate?
Responses. During Dragon Boat Festival which is the on the fifth day of the fifth month of the chinese calendar.

Q2. What is the story behind rice dumpling?
Responses. When Qin Dynasty general Bai Qi took over Chu capital , Qu Yuan's grief was so intense that he drowned himself in the Miluo River.Dumpling were than thrown into the river to prevent fishes in the river from eating his body

Q3. What is the traditional filling for the Rice Dumpling?
Responses. Meat , Mushrooms and groundnuts

Q4.Why is the rice dumpling ate?
Responses. It is eaten to commemorating the death of Qu Yuan , a famous Chinese poet from the Kingdom of Chu who lived through the warring states period.

Conclusions
Usually eaten on the fifth day of the fifth month to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan and that normally filled with meat , mushrooms and groundnut

Attitude of people today towards traditional food
Some of them do not bother finding the history of the food they like