Hey, have you tried zongzi?
嗨,你吃过粽子吗?
You mean the pyramid-shaped sticky rice wrapped in leaves?
你是说包在叶子里金字塔形状的糯米团?
Yes, those are the ones. Do you know why they're wrapped in leaves?
对,就是那个。你知道它为什么要用叶子包起来吗?
Isn't it something to do with a poet?
和一个诗人有关吗?
Exactly. His name was Qu Yuan. He was a patriot who drowned himself for his country. To honor him, people threw rice wrapped in leaves into the water, so the fish would eat the rice instead of him.
没错。他叫屈原。为国家儿殉身投江的爱国者。
为了纪念他,人们把大米用叶子裹上,扔到江里,这样鱼儿就会只吃米粒而不吃屈原了。
What a moving story!