Honey Dates for Rice Pudding on Dragon Boat Festival

Next week is the Dragon Boat Festival, one of the important and traditional festivals in China. Rice pudding is the most common and traditional food on dragon boat festival. Usually the rice pudding filling are peanuts, pork, chestnut, red bean and yolk. However, recently, the honey dates rice pudding is popular and well received among people. One of outstanding of honey dates rice pudding is you do not need extra sugar.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival and the Double Fifth, is a traditional and statutory holiday originating in China. The festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar on which the Chinese calendar is based. This is the source of the alternative name of Double Fifth. The Duanwu Festival is believed to have originated in ancient China. A number of theories exist about its origins as a number of folk traditions and explanatory myths are connected to its observance. Today the best known of these relates to the suicide in 278 BCE of Qu Yuan, poet and statesman of the Chu kingdom during the Warring States period.

To certain extent, rice puddings are traditionally eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival commemorating the death of Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese poet. We do hope the honey dates rice pudding will give you special experience this year.